<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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The Dog Stars: Quiet, Grief, Action!

The Dog Stars: Quiet, Grief, Action!

The Dog Stars is the new Ridley Scott movie based on the 2018 novel of the same name by author Peter Heller, which was adapted by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Twisters). The film finds Hig (Jacob Elordi), a grieving, young widower stranded in  his life in Erie,...

The Salt Path: Trying to Walk Into Hope

The Salt Path: Trying to Walk Into Hope

Raynor Winn (Gillian Anderson) and Moth Winn (Jason Isaacs) find themselves on a journey they never expected. Caught up in a legal kerfuffle, investment mistakes, and ultimately a court order forcing them from their home, their lives are suddenly turned upside down....

The Wrong Girls: High Goals, Higher Stakes

The Wrong Girls: High Goals, Higher Stakes

From the producers of two men who helped define the stoner comedy comes a film that tries to push this micro-genre forward. Historically, the voices that have been given little heed in the stoner comedy are women. So, naturally, a star like Kristen Stewart, alongside...

The Shards: LA Teenage Horror Story

The Shards: LA Teenage Horror Story

The Shards is the new FX show from Ryan Murphy, who seems to be one of the only showrunners intent on staying in television and one where TV executives are still giving him a green light. In a TV landscape that is changing quickly, where funding is shifting between...

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...