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.

January 17, 2020January 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Chinatown (1974)

Polanski’s greatest accomplishment, and one of the finest American films ever made from the ’70s.

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January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 by Eternality Tan

My Magic (2008)

Khoo’s work here is a gritty ‘freak show’ first, and a heartfelt drama second.

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January 16, 2020May 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

While We’re Young (2014)

A drama-comedy that tells us painful truths about growing up (and old) through the kind of offbeat comedy that writer-director Noah Baumbach is synonymous with.

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January 16, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Greenberg (2010)

A passive character study disguised as a romantic-comedy that feels too laidback for it to work convincingly.

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January 15, 2020June 24, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Irishman, The (2019)

Scorsese delivers another career-high mob film that is quite unlike what he has done before in what could be a strong Best Picture contender.

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January 14, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)

Has no real narrative impetus and mistakes a laidback filmmaking style for meaning-making, this modern ‘Ganja and Hess’ remake by Spike Lee is a turn-off.