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.

November 24, 2019February 2, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Perfect Candidate, The (2019)

Al-Mansour’s second Saudi Arabian film may be mellow and straightforward in approach, but it is a step forward for the depiction of strong women in the country.

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November 20, 2019April 25, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Red Dust (1990)

One could maybe marvel at its storytelling efficiency with a 90-minute narrative spanning decades of tumultuous modern Chinese history, but it doesn’t quite know whether to be epic or cheesy in its treatment.

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November 19, 2019February 11, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Ford v Ferrari (2019)

This is an absorbing, top-tier Hollywood car racing biopic that dazzles with its technical execution and features one of Christian Bale’s finest performances.

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November 19, 2019March 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Age of Shadows, The (2016)

Crafted with operatic scale and striving for an epic-ness that its subject matter necessitates, but ultimately feels overdrawn to work powerfully.

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November 18, 2019February 4, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Last Stand, The (2013)

A quite solid action-comedy with Schwarzenegger back in form and versatile Korean director Kim Jee-woon showing what he can do in Hollywood.

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November 17, 2019January 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Adam (2019)

A delicate Moroccan film about a homeless pregnant woman seeking shelter in a bakery owned by a dispassionate mother.

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November 15, 2019May 23, 2020 by Eternality Tan

C’est la vie, mon cheri (1993)

This is Hong Kong tear-jerking melodrama at its best, boasting a superb performance by Anita Yuen.

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November 13, 2019October 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

I Saw the Devil (2010)

If South Korean vengeance movies are your thing, this extremely violent and misogynistic flick might just scare you away.

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November 12, 2019August 14, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

This is free-form, counter-cultural Japanese cinema at its astonishing best—playful, powerful and brutal all in the same breath.

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November 11, 2019July 3, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Housemaid, The (1960)

One of the classic Korean cinema’s most adored works – this is a tale of lust, greed and revenge.

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