Continue reading →Pacino and De Niro give electrifying performances in this sprawling three-hour Los Angeles cat-and-mouse crime thriller.
Author / Eternality Tan
Get Out (2017)
Continue reading →A sharp and clever genre-bending horror-comedy that is timely in its racial allegory and refreshing in its execution.
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008)
Continue reading →An ambitious if poorly-paced film that struggles to sustain for long stretches despite the incredible technical wizardry on show.
Social Network, The (2010)
Continue reading →Not just a high watermark in Fincher’s career, this film captures the zeitgeist of 21st century communications.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)
Continue reading →It may be an imperfect re-envisioning of the best-selling novel, but Fincher shows why he is one of the most technically-gifted filmmakers of his generation.
Shut Up and Play the Piano (2018)
Continue reading →One of the year’s surprise discoveries, this Chilly Gonzales music documentary will make you fall in love with the eccentricities of music-making.
“Hero”: Placing Asian Cinema Within National and International Boundaries
(Written in 2013, and first published on 1 Jan 2014)
Zhang Yimou remains to be the most famous of mainland Chinese filmmakers working today, yet his greatest works were made during the early phase of his career in the early 1990s with critically-acclaimed sociopolitical films such as Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and To Live (1994).
In 2002, two years after the international success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Zhang released Hero, his first-ever martial arts film starring some of the biggest names in Chinese cinema, including Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi.
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Game, The (1997)
Continue reading →Clinically precise in its execution, this mystery-thriller grips you and plays you like a game.
Gone Girl (2014)
Continue reading →Darkly comic, twisted, even creepy, Fincher’s latest grips you by the throat.
Widows (2018)
Continue reading →Steve McQueen tackling the heist-thriller genre is certainly worth seeing, but while it is a well-made effort, it is sometimes too convoluted for its own good.
