Posts by Eternality Tan

For 20 years, ET has been passionate about everything that encompasses cinema. He is an adjunct lecturer of film studies, a professional curator, sometimes producing shorts, and always writing reviews. He's also an incredibly devoted fan of The Criterion Collection, plays the piano/keyboards and guitar, and absolutely adores Snoopies, and Arsenal FC.

August 11, 2021May 26, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Polished and generally solid, this Cold War movie would rank as one of Spielberg’s good-but-not-great pictures.

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August 10, 2021May 26, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Lincoln (2012)

Another commanding performance by Daniel Day-Lewis lifts this uncharacteristically slow-paced and talky Spielberg film from being too self-absorbed in its historical importance.

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August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blackpink: The Movie (2021)

More of a compilation of past concert performances (albeit in stunning audiovisual quality) than a documentary of new insight and depth, this will please and frustrate fans in equal measure.

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August 10, 2021August 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Canterbury Tales, The (1972)

Not as complete as The Decameron was, this lust-filled, sex-crazed medieval fantasy will probably knock you out with its comic outrageousness.

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August 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021)

This is pedagogy as cinema—an unobtrusive and highly-rewarding documentary centering on a veteran teacher and his ethnically-diverse students in a small town in Germany, earning every compelling bit of its nearly four-hour runtime.

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August 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Story of Women (1988)

A brilliant Isabelle Huppert headlines Chabrol’s true-story WWII drama about French women who had to deal with illegal abortion and prostitution, while bearing the brunt of legal and moral injustices.

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August 5, 2021December 9, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Decameron, The (1971)

Pasolini’s first film in his unofficial ‘Trilogy of Life’ is wildly provocative and blasphemous where religion and sex meet at the crossroads of art.

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August 4, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

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2006, Goro Miyazaki, Japan, Studio Ghibli
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Arguably Studio Ghibli’s weakest film, Goro Miyazaki’s debut feature is poorly-paced with a story that doesn’t sparkle, despite the beautiful, otherworldly visuals.

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August 3, 2021June 21, 2026 by Eternality Tan

War Horse (2011)

Some may find this terribly mawkish, but Spielberg is still the undisputed master of emotional manipulation, and I say this with gratitude, because it reminds me of the magic of moviemaking.

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August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The (2011)

Spielberg’s first animated feature is ‘Indiana Jones’ meets ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ in one of the year’s most entertaining movies.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Lincoln (2012)

Blackpink: The Movie (2021)

Canterbury Tales, The (1972)

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021)

Story of Women (1988)

Decameron, The (1971)

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

War Horse (2011)

Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The (2011)