<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

Posts by Daniel Eng:

Theater Camp – A Place to Belong

Theater Camp – A Place to Belong

Theater people can make gold, when you put them together with a little bit of cardboard. Theater Camp is co-directed by actress Molly Gordon (The Bear, Shiva Baby) and Nick Lieberman, both in their directorial debuts. Written by Gordon, Lieberman, Ben Platt and Noah...

The Lesson: A Class in Subtle Intrigue

The Lesson: A Class in Subtle Intrigue

In some of their best roles to date, The Lesson stars Richard E Grant, Darryl McCormack and Julie Delpy as a renowned author (Grant), his wife the innovative painter (Delpy) and an esteemed English tutor named Liam (Darryl McCormack). The story begins when Liam, fresh...

I’m a Virgo: Art as Propaganda

I’m a Virgo: Art as Propaganda

Like Connor Roy of Succession, Boots Riley, creator of I'm a Virgo, has always been interested in politics. But unlike the fictional Roy, Riley has always put it into action through his work. For example, after the Oakland High School funding was cut in the 1980s, he...

Making Time: An Assembly of Parts

Making Time: An Assembly of Parts

Making Time focuses on multiple people who are involved in the world of watches and time. As experts in horology, designers and watchmakers, they are the people who preserve the watch as an art form and share how their personal life stories are tied to watches....

Escalation: A Cop Story that Should’ve Stopped

Escalation: A Cop Story that Should’ve Stopped

Unfortunately, a lot of this film's ambitions were too high. Likely hoping to have an indie-action phenomenon on their hands, Escalation fills the niche of being an 'Asian-American in the cop world', similar to Jackie Chan in Rush Hour. (To be clear though, Jackie...

Past Lives: The feeling of being connected.

Past Lives: The feeling of being connected.

Past Lives is the directorial debut of Korean-Canadian writer Celine Song that follows an autobiographical story of love, fate and how our life choices can take us away from what we perceive as a more dramatic destiny. The film follows Nora Moon and Hae Sung, two...

Jane: Sabotaged by Grief

Jane: Sabotaged by Grief

Jane stars Madeline Petsch (Riverdale) and Chloe Bailey (Swarm) as two friends who attempt to deal with the overwhelming stress of school and their shared grief that threatens to undermine all their present achievements. For Olivia (Petsch), this comes to fruition...

The Artifice Girl – Dark Secrets used for good?

The Artifice Girl – Dark Secrets used for good?

The Artifice Girl is another notable entry into the pantheon of ever-evolving, low budget sci-fi that squares itself at the centre of a discourse around the creation of A.I. as these technologies become a greater part of our lives. In Artifice, Gareth (Franklin Ritch)...