Film Picks: Predator: Killer Of Killers, Dreams (Sex Love), Living & Remembering

A swordsman from feudal Japan battles the alien in Predator: Killer Of Killers. PHOTO: DISNEY+

John Lui

UPDATED Jun 12, 2025, 03:00 PM

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Predator: Killer Of Killers (NC16)

86 minutes, streaming on Disney+ ★★★★☆

Predator (1987) starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in a movie about muscled mercenaries stalked by an extraterrestrial hunter.

The movie spawned a cinematic franchise, the next instalment being Predator: Badlands, releasing in Novembe r and directed by Dan Trachtenberg. The same film-maker made the Emmy-nominated Prey (2022), about an 18th-century Comanche woman fighting alien warriors who have, over centuries, made Earth a destination for trophy hunting. 

In the just-released Disney+ animated movie Killer Of Killers, three humans from different eras in history meet a foe unlike anything they have encountered. A Viking woman, a swordsman from feudal Japan and an American pilot from World War II are the unwilling gladiators.

The animation style, inspired by oil paintings, is a bold, fresh break from the current glut of anime art. As in Prey, each human character has an emotional core driving him or her to use wits to defeat a creature far stronger than he or she is.

Dreams (Sex Love) (R21)

110 minutes, limited screenings from June 15

Ella Overbye plays a teen who has fallen in love with her teacher (Selome Emnetu) in the Norwegian drama Dreams (Sex Love). PHOTO: ANTICIPATE PICTURES

In this Norwegian drama about three generations of women coming to terms with romantic love, desire and personal fulfilment, teenager Johanne (Ella Overbye) has fallen in love for the first time, with her teacher Johanna (Selome Emnetu), an American.

Johanne’s single mother Kristin (Ane Dahl Torp) and grandmother Karin (Anne Marit Jacobsen) read the memoir into which Johanne has poured her feelings and realise that it has literary merit as a piece of feminist writing. 

The 2024 film is the final chapter of film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud’s acclaimed Sex-Love-Dreams trilogy (2024) and winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. It is screening as part of indie cinema The Projector’s Pink Screen season of films with an LGBTQ+ theme.  

A review by industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter calls it a “smart, sensitive queer coming-of-age story with sweetness alongside its acerbity, and a disarming gentleness in exploring Johanne’s feelings”.

Living & Remembering

21 minutes, available on YouTube

(From left) Agnes Goh, Teng Siau Liew and Fredde Loke in the short drama Living & Remembering. PHOTO: COURTESY OF AGNES GOH

Now at close to 30,000 views on digital publisher OGS’ channel on YouTube and attracting over 40 positive comments, the short drama is the work of creator, co-writer and actress Agnes Goh.

The story is based on her relationship with her father, who died in 2024. She hopes that the film can resonate with those who have lost their fathers, with it also being a “love letter to every father who has worked hard for the family”. 

Directed by Daniel Yam, who helmed the palliative care drama anthology Good Goodbye (2024), it tells the story of Amanda (Goh), whose ailing father (Fredde Loke) tries to fulfil her wish of a family trip to Japan before his death. Amanda has to reckon with his regrets and her own. 

Info: To view the short drama, go to str.sg/DSQu

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