<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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HotDocs ’25: Life After

HotDocs ’25: Life After

Life After is focused on advocating for awareness of disabled people’s and their lack of funding, especially here in Ontario and in Canada as a whole in light of C-7 which would allow people with disabilities to end their lives. The film makes it clear that the main...

HotDocs ’25: Yalla Parkour

HotDocs ’25: Yalla Parkour

An intimate epic of sorts, Yalla Parkour covers seven years of footage and time and is told from the perspective of the director who one day gets connected with Ahmed, a young aspiring parkour. He gives her a lens into life in Gaza that she never had because of the...

The Friend: Reading the Past

The Friend: Reading the Past

Based on the best selling novel, The Friend follows Iris (Naomi Watts), a woman who is looking back on her complex friendship with a fellow writer and mentor Walter (Bill Murray). Walter, while charming, brilliant, charismatic and a player, often lets those who are...

The Penguin Lessons: Children of the Pingüino

The Penguin Lessons: Children of the Pingüino

In 1976, Tom Michel, a British bloke looking for a teaching jobs, winds up in Argentina at a prestigious private school. However, even a private school life is not separate from the chaos of the rising military dictatorship that threatens to control the country. As...

Dope Thief: Not Quite Robin Hood

Dope Thief: Not Quite Robin Hood

Dope Thief follows Ray (Brian Tyree Henry), a man who is struggling to make more out of the little that he has. He tells his step-mother (who is more like his real mom) that he paints houses but really he is battling the drug war in an illegal--but more ethical--way....

Mickey 17: The Multiples will be Alright

Mickey 17: The Multiples will be Alright

Mickey 17, Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho's follow up to the Best Picture winning, Parasite, was always going to come with high expectations and this one came with a high budget as well. The hook is probably the simplest of his films to get on board with. Mickey Barnes...

This Time Next Year: Be Open to Love

This Time Next Year: Be Open to Love

From the editor of Notting Hill and Love, Actually--the only film my girlfriend's mom has seen more than once-- comes a film that aims for that same comfort. Set in modern day London, we follow Minnie Driver (Like the car), a woman who is convinced that she is cursed...

Parthenope: Knowledge and Beauty

Parthenope: Knowledge and Beauty

The whole film we are kept at a distance from our protagonist Parthenope, who represents the beauty that Sorrentino always seems to be trying to capture in his films. Parthenope follows the titular character in her university life in Naples, where she seems committed...