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Daniel Eng

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Daniel’s Top 20 Films of 2025

Daniel’s Top 20 Films of 2025

There are great movies every year and, depending on who you are, some years have more great films than others. For me personally, this year around 40 of the 100 films that I saw I would recommend to different kinds of people. All of those 40 deserve a shoutout but I...

Father Mother Sister Brother: Imagining Drama

Father Mother Sister Brother: Imagining Drama

Cannes regular (though not with this film) Jim Jarmusch tackles a three-part anthology film full of nuance and marked by a particular cadence. The characters have walls between them, and Jarmusch lets those walls become the drama. While all three parts share similar...

The Choral: Music as Hope

The Choral: Music as Hope

The Choral is very much an ensemble piece where we don't really see the journey of one person but rather, becomes a collective experience. It starts in a small town where the local Choral is putting on their new show in the midst of World War I. Even as auditions wrap...

The Voice of Hind Rajab: Why We Can’t Look Away

The Voice of Hind Rajab: Why We Can’t Look Away

Cannes Palm D'Or nominee Katouther Ben Hania has moved between narrative and documentary work for her past couple of films. For that reason, it is natural for her to bring the two styles together. In The Voice of Hind Rajab, she blends dramatized scenes with actual...

Anaconda: Snakes. Why did it have to be Snakes?

Anaconda: Snakes. Why did it have to be Snakes?

In the midst of unfulfilling lives, four friends reunite with Griffin (Paul Rudd), their most unfulfilled friend who brings a crazy idea to the group: to remake the 1997 film, Anaconda. Doug (Jack Black), Griffin's closest friend, has been an aspiring filmmaker since...

The Housemaid – A Twist on the Soapy Thriller

The Housemaid – A Twist on the Soapy Thriller

From box office phenomenon Paul Feig, The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney as Millie, a young woman with a troubled past and present who gets a job with an uber-rich family. The head of the household appears to be Nina (Amanda Seyfried), a woman who appears quite...

Jay Kelly: Can I have another go?

Jay Kelly: Can I have another go?

Jay Kelly is the film where director Noah Baumbach attempts to reconcile the grand sprawling aspirations that he first exercised in his last film, White Noise with his honest, very personal character work in films like Mistress America and Frances Ha, both of which I...

Merrily We Roll Along: The Case for more Stage Magic!

Merrily We Roll Along: The Case for more Stage Magic!

Although it was one of the less famous musicals from the most famous musical composer of all time, Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along was revived for Broadway following an Off-Broadway debut with an all-star cast. Starring Johnathan Groff as Frank, Daniel...

Rental Family: A Promise Unfulfilled

Rental Family: A Promise Unfulfilled

Rental Family will be a hit with many. Its concept: a middle aged American actor is struggling to find fulfilling roles during his extended time in Japan until he finds a Rental Family company. Suddenly, he is thrust into emotional family situations as he takes on...