<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny – Growing Up

Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny – Growing Up

Jim Gaffigan's The Skinny is a one hour comedy special that Gaffigan directed, produced and wrote himself. The title is his starting point where he makes funny observations about his weight loss journey. I'll begin my stating that I had never watched a Jim Gaffigan...

Interior Chinatown – Breaking Down Narrative Walls

Interior Chinatown is about Willis Wu, a ordinary and boring waiter at a Chinatown restaurant. The show is framed in two ways. First, as a meta-narrative where the main character Willis Wu is stuck in a typical cable cop show the features two attractive leads who...

TIFF ’24: My Sunshine

TIFF ’24: My Sunshine

In a small town in Japan, Takuya is shy young boy clearly unfascinated with the sports that his parents have placed him in. He barely moves in hockey and looks to the sky hoping for snow during baseball season. Then, one day, as he is stuck in the draining motions of...

TIFF ’24: Emilia Perez

TIFF ’24: Emilia Perez

At a crossroads financially and professionally, Rita (Zoe Saldana), a talented and undervalued lawyer, is tapped to become the bearer of great secrets and responsibility when one of Mexico's most notorious cartel leaders, Manitas Del Monte (Karla Sofia Gascon),...

TIFF ’24: Babygirl

TIFF ’24: Babygirl

When you've gotten all you want in the world of business, family and love, what else could you need? Romy (Nicole Kidman) is about to find out. Not fully satisfied by her and Jacob's (Antonio Banderas) lovemaking, Romy begins to explore different forms of sexual...

TIFF ’24: Bird

TIFF ’24: Bird

Starring breakout lead Nyikka Adams, Bird tells the story of Bailey, a 12-year-old girl growing up in a squat in North Kent, England with her young father Bug (Barry Keoghan). While Bug and Bailey clearly have a connection their relationship is tested when Bug plans...

TIFF ’24: The Piano Lesson

TIFF ’24: The Piano Lesson

Kept as a family exercise both in story and in creation, The Piano Lesson reconciles the value of history and how it fights the needs of the present. Directed by Malcolm Washington, produced by Denzel Washington and starring John David Washington (yes, they are all...

TIFF ’24: On Swift Horses

TIFF ’24: On Swift Horses

With an all-star cast of Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Diego Calva, Will Poulter and Sasha Calle, On Swift Horses provides a cinematic look at the tale of two individuals who have a intrisical connection. The two are bonded by what they cannot express and that...