Filmhouse (formerly The Projector)

The Projector is gone. The projectors, happily, are not.

Go back. Filmhouse is The Projector's old home on the fifth floor of Golden Mile Tower: the same three halls, the programming in the same hands, a new name on the door. It is for anyone who misses films the multiplexes won't touch and the argument afterwards. The compromise is that it is a cinema first and a night out second, with the bar plans still settling, so eat before you come, book on filmhouse.sg and keep Mondays for something else, because it's shut.

The loyalty has a history. The Projector launched here in 2014 after an Indiegogo campaign raised US$55,000, in part of the old Golden Theatre, which opened in 1973 as the largest cinema in Singapore and Malaysia. It grew into pop-ups and outposts, then in August 2025 announced its closure and went into voluntary liquidation with debts of around S$1.2 million. Filmhouse soft-opened in the same space on 3 February 2026, funded by a private investor who prefers to stay anonymous and run by familiar faces: Sharon Tan, who managed The Projector in its early years, and Walter Navarro, who led its programming.

Regulars will know the bones. The three halls keep their cult names, the Green Room, Redrum and the Blue Room; Speak Cryptic's murals are being revived and added to, and furniture designer Nathan Yong has reworked the foyer into something cosier. The real upgrade is in the booth: a 4K xenon projector in the Green Room, 2K lasers in the other two, and new MAG speakers wired to an Altec-Lansing amplifier that is pushing 50 (new speakers, old amplifier: the whole place in miniature).

The programming sticks to the old spirit. Navarro has promised cult classics and "the best of world cinema", alongside Singaporean and Asian stories and the odd prestige studio release. The strands are the useful way in – Filmhouse of Horrors, Cinematic Voids, Music in Film – along with country showcases such as the German and Japanese film festivals. Pink Screen, the LGBTQIA+ film festival, has already returned here for Pride Month, and the Blue Room is set to host the occasional live performance.

The foyer counter does snacks. A post-screening bar, Trailer Bar, has been announced from Ritz and Rush Ang, formerly of Enclave, with cocktails, craft beer and natural wine; check the site for what is actually running before you build the evening around a post-film negroni.

How to do it well: go Tuesday to Thursday, when standard tickets are cheaper than at the weekend, and book online rather than trusting the box office, which opens late in the afternoon on weekdays. Nicoll Highway is the nearest MRT. Then ignore the titles you already know and book the strand film you know least about. That was always the point of the place, and it still is.

Good to know Filmhouse is on level 5 of Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road; Nicoll Highway MRT is the nearest station. It is closed on Mondays; book showtimes on filmhouse.sg and check the site for which bar offering is running.

Filmhouse (formerly The Projector) | Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road, #05-00, Singapore 199589 | Nearest MRT: Nicoll Highway