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Daniel Eng

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Darkest Light: A Great but Sinful Man

Darkest Light: A Great but Sinful Man

The film starts with powerful footage of worship alongside Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, a famous celebrity rabbi who was widely celebrated within the Jewish community, almost like a rock star within his specific religious circles. He was famous enough that even Michael...

The Odyssey: The Epic Stories We Tell Each Other

The Odyssey: The Epic Stories We Tell Each Other

The Odyssey is the epic you expect for $250 million. It is all on display and contains the epic moments you may already be familiar with from the lore of Homer’s poem. These scenes are depicted with brutal honesty, scale, and realism. Simultaneously, it delivers the...

Romeria: Memory Tainted by the Absence of Love

Romeria: Memory Tainted by the Absence of Love

In a film that views memory and personal investigation in ways reminiscent of autobiographical works like Aftersun and the excellent Canadian film, Blue Heron, Romeria collides with a darker version of Bergman’s Summer Interlude. Like the former two films, this one...

The Agency S2: How do Risks Pay Off?

In a remake of the French series The Bureau, The Agency is an American take on the undercover spy thriller. For this second season, we are left waiting to see the consequences or rewards facing protagonist Brandon “Martian” Colby (Michael Fassbender) after making a...

Departures: An Open Letter to Bad Breakups

Departures: An Open Letter to Bad Breakups

Departures is directed by Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan—the latter of whom wrote and stars as the lead, Benji. Benji is coming off a bad breakup from a tumultuous relationship; he is down on his luck and does not seem to even like life anymore. Why has he gotten this...

Disclosure Day: Signs pointing to Empathy

Disclosure Day: Signs pointing to Empathy

Disclosure Day is Spielberg's foray into combining many of the ideas he has explored throughout his career: adventure, aliens, government cover-ups, journalism, and everyday people being thrust into something beyond themselves are all heavily featured. The film...

TJFF: Our Bodies and Other Shames

TJFF: Our Bodies and Other Shames

Sheva, Sarah, and Tali were inseparable as children, but their long-lasting friendship has fluctuated over time. A decade after their friendship ended, they reunite for one night in the Brooklyn of their youth, forcing them to confront the events that tore them apart....

After the Party: Familial Dread

After the Party: Familial Dread

In the New Zealand series, After the Party, we follow Penny (Robyn Malcolm), a woman whose life was altered after a family gathering about five years ago where family lines were torn and loyalties tested. While still living a relatively normal life, her world is...