Posts by Eternality Tan

For more than 17 years, ET has been intensely 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.

January 10, 2021September 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Woman Who Left, The (2016)

Lav Diaz’s Venice Golden Lion winner has its beautiful cinematic moments, but its diminishing returns are at best tolerable.

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January 10, 2021October 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

A mix of fiction and reality, and memory and imagination as Shyam Benegal weaves a complex drama full of literary qualities, but somehow isn’t compelling enough to get into.

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January 8, 2021April 22, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Chess of the Wind, The (1976)

This banned and long-lost Iranian debut feature, boosted by a stunning restoration, is a genuine eye-opener—subversive, progressive, and a formidable take on how power and greed are symptomatic of patriarchy and nobility.

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January 7, 2021December 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Shadow (2018)

A return to form in some ways, Zhang’s monochrome martial-arts drama is visually gorgeous but not always compelling.

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January 6, 2021May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)

Zatoichi’s caught in between nasty gangsters and ungrateful villagers in this 14^th entry that boasts great action but little in a way of a substantial story.

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January 6, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Great Wall, The (2016)

Fairly entertaining inasmuch as it is a CG-fest ‘historical fantasy’ with spectacular visual flourishes, but ultimately generic and mechanical in its execution.

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January 5, 2021December 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Yellow Cat (2020)

A disappointing misfire from Yerzhanov who doesn’t have anything meaningful to say with his latest absurdist dark comedy.

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January 4, 2021October 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Soul (2020)

It doesn’t always cohere with a creative concept that sometimes overreaches, but this is Pixar at its most existential, exploring the meaning of life at the crossroads of passion, purpose and living.

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January 3, 2021August 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blackpink: Light Up the Sky (2020)

There’s probably nothing new for die-hard Blinks, but for new fans (like myself), this is a no-frills but highly-effective introduction to the four K-pop queens who are slaying the world.

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January 2, 2021June 24, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Inside Out (2015)

One of the very, very best in the Pixar canon, and that’s saying something.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Woman Who Left, The (2016)

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

Chess of the Wind, The (1976)

Shadow (2018)

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)

Great Wall, The (2016)

Yellow Cat (2020)

Soul (2020)

Blackpink: Light Up the Sky (2020)

Inside Out (2015)