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.

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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November 10, 2019August 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Horse Thief, The (1986)

This is experimental filmmaking on an epic scale, and also one of the greatest pictures to emerge from China’s Fifth Generation.

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November 9, 2019November 11, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Housemaid, The (2010)

A mediocre take on the 1960 original with little substance or sexual tension to boot.

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November 9, 2019March 6, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Wadjda (2012)

This minor miracle shot entirely in Saudi Arabia by a female director is at its core a simple and subtle drama told with remarkable clarity.

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