<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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TIFF ’23: Evil does not Exist

TIFF ’23: Evil does not Exist

Sep 14, 2023

With Evil Does Not Exist, one can't help but wonder if the title of Oscar Winning Director Ryseuke Hamaguchi’s film is meant to be ironic or is, in fact, trying to reveal the good nature of our humanity. For a long time, it seems like the latter as Hamaguchi involves...

TIFF ’23: Memory

TIFF ’23: Memory

Sep 14, 2023

Memory, the first American drama from Mexican auteur Michel Franco tells a story of connection, loss, and yes, memory. Featuring wonderful performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgard as Silvia and Saul, the film begins when Silvia goes to her high school...

TIFF ’23: Uproar

Sep 14, 2023

Uproar chronicles Josh’s adventure to establish an identity for himself, which goes against the values of his country wrestling. Here, Apartheid-era South Africa’s rugby team has been touring New Zealand, provoking protests across the country. It has also been forcing...

TIFF ’23: NYAD

TIFF ’23: NYAD

Sep 14, 2023

Nyad is the feature directorial debut of Oscar-winning documentary duo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and  Jimmy Chin (The Rescue and Free Solo). In their latest film to look at people who are insane enough to try to achieve the physically impossible, the death-defying...

TIFF ’23: Summer Qamp

TIFF ’23: Summer Qamp

Sep 13, 2023

The new documentary, Summer Qamp, takes a look at Camp Fyrefly, a camp in southern Alberta that is comprised entirely of people from the LGBTQ+2S community. The film aims to see how the experience helps them to come to terms with their identity and be affirmed in...

TIFF 23′: Mother, Couch

TIFF 23′: Mother, Couch

Sep 13, 2023

Ellen Burstyn sits on her sofa and refuses to move. That’s it. This is the absurd little concept fueling the debut feature of Nicalas Larsson debut feature, Mother, Couch (with an epic title btw). To try to get Mother (Ellen Burstyn) off the couch, David, Gruffudd,...

TIFF ’23: Origin

TIFF ’23: Origin

Sep 12, 2023

Ava DuVernay’s return to feature film sees merge her urgent artistic voice and the social issues that drive it into a cohesive feature that serves both as a nonfiction investigation into caste systems and also what drives a woman to explore it. Based upon the book...

Asteroid City: The Meaning of Quirkiness

Asteroid City: The Meaning of Quirkiness

Sep 12, 2023

In many ways, Asteroid City feels like a direct clapback to the A.I generated still-life of Wes Anderson’s style. Anderson reveals in his new film that it’s a lot more complicated than that and he wrestles with very real human questions that an A.I would never bother...

TIFF ’23: La Chimera

TIFF ’23: La Chimera

Sep 12, 2023

Fresh out of prison, wandering English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward grave-robber group who live off looting Etruscan tombs and cemeteries buried with treasure. However, Arthur isn’t really interested in this life anymore. As a result, his search is...