<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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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...

TIFF ’23: The Royal Hotel

TIFF ’23: The Royal Hotel

Sep 11, 2023

Seeking escape and adventure, two friends find their travels stumped by a lack of funds and prospects. To pay off their foreign exchange fees, the two join a 'work-to-travel' program which lands them in a remote Australian community. At first, they take it as a chance...

TIFF 23′: Dicks: The Musical

TIFF 23′: Dicks: The Musical

Sep 11, 2023

What happens if you take the Broadway musical--what has often been considered America’s most wholesome and charming form of theatre--but it was raunchy and proudly queer? That’s what Dicks: The Musical tries to answer in its short but song-filled comedy. The film...

TIFF 23: Les Indesirables

TIFF 23: Les Indesirables

Sep 11, 2023

In a natural evolution from his Oscar-nominated feature Les Miserables (not the musical), Mali born French auteur Ladj Ly goes back to his own neighborhood to tell the story of Baitment 5 (or Les Indesirables), a group of housing units made up of deteriorating...

TIFF ’23: How to Have Sex

TIFF ’23: How to Have Sex

Sep 11, 2023

Spring Break in Malia! That’s what the main characters of How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, have on their mind. Under the colored strobe lights, the brisk beachside sun and a little emotional coercion, the group are set them with a poolside room...

TIFF ’23: The Boy and the Heron

TIFF ’23: The Boy and the Heron

Sep 10, 2023

To say Miyazaki has a new classic seems both par for the course and wholly unexpected. Given his career full of films that will go down as some of the most influential and important works in art there has never been a doubt the man is a genius visionary. Still, at the...