<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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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...

TIFF ’23: Fitting In

TIFF ’23: Fitting In

Sep 8, 2023

Fitting In is one of the most honest coming-of-age movies to be made in recent memory. As Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) heads into her sophomore year of high school, social tensions are rising. She has a boy that she really likes, named Adam (D’Pharoh Woon-A-Tai) and is...

TIFF ’23: Perfect Days

TIFF ’23: Perfect Days

Sep 7, 2023

Living a humble life, Hirayama seems to have mastered his daily routine. He knows exactly how to do his work as the custodian of the Tokyo public toilets, enjoys his collection of music while he drives, showers at one of the public baths, has a small meal, and then...

Iron Butterflies: Fire and Fury

Iron Butterflies: Fire and Fury

Aug 25, 2023

We should have seen it coming. Iron Butterflies looks at Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014, which was shot down on its way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam over the airspace of Eastern Ukraine. All 298 lost their lives this day but, while the shock was...

Shortcomings – An Unlikeable Film, Bro

Shortcomings – An Unlikeable Film, Bro

Aug 5, 2023

Some might consider my by-line to be an oxymoron but the protagonist of Randall Park's debut film, Shortcomings is certainly his own version of a 'film bro'. He may despise Randall Park's copyright-free version of Crazy Rich Asians called 'In Beginnings', which ends...