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.

March 1, 2020December 31, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Monsters University (2013)

Not a Mike & Sulley star vehicle, but it comes close to capturing the magic of Pixar’s most fun-ness of endeavours.

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March 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Happy Old Year (2020)

An easy-going Thai movie about the need to let go of the past that gets the balance between comedy and serious drama just about right.

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February 29, 2020May 26, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Musings #3: A Teacup in a Storm: Polanski & the Cesar Awards

This is a brief personal opinion piece about the stormy controversy over Roman Polanski’s Best Director win at the Cesar Awards for his film, AN OFFICER AND A SPY (2019).

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February 28, 2020March 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Tarkovsky’s vignette-style medieval epic is possibly the greatest ideological film about a psychologically-conflicted artist trying to understand the epoch he lives in.

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February 27, 2020July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Two Popes, The (2019)

You’ll be surprised that two religious old men chatting about their struggles with faith and their pasts can be so engrossing in Fernando Meirelles’ breezy drama.