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Daniel Eng

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TIFF ’26: The Unknown

TIFF ’26: The Unknown

From the co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall (winner of the 2024 Best Original Screenplay Oscar) comes an arthouse body-swapping movie that moves slowly, with a ’70s style placed within the modern day. It follows David Zimmerman, who has a chance encounter with a woman...

TIFF ’26: All of a Sudden

TIFF ’26: All of a Sudden

As the director of a Long-Term Care Home struggles with new changes, she encounters a theatre director who is dying of cancer, and their relationship pushes and pulls them toward new philosophies of life, death, and art. This film is a testament to life. It's about...

TIFF ’26: Coward

TIFF ’26: Coward

Coward sees Belgian director Lukas Dhont digging into a part of World War I history that is rarely covered in movies and TV. He focuses on a theatre troupe made up of rejected soldiers who were tasked with putting on musical acts and plays to increase morale for the...

The Dog Stars: Quiet, Grief, Action!

The Dog Stars: Quiet, Grief, Action!

The Dog Stars is the new Ridley Scott movie based on the 2018 novel of the same name by author Peter Heller, which was adapted by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Twisters). The film finds Hig (Jacob Elordi), a grieving, young widower stranded in  his life in Erie,...

The Salt Path: Trying to Walk Into Hope

The Salt Path: Trying to Walk Into Hope

Raynor Winn (Gillian Anderson) and Moth Winn (Jason Isaacs) find themselves on a journey they never expected. Caught up in a legal kerfuffle, investment mistakes, and ultimately a court order forcing them from their home, their lives are suddenly turned upside down....

The Wrong Girls: High Goals, Higher Stakes

The Wrong Girls: High Goals, Higher Stakes

From the producers of two men who helped define the stoner comedy comes a film that tries to push this micro-genre forward. Historically, the voices that have been given little heed in the stoner comedy are women. So, naturally, a star like Kristen Stewart, alongside...

The Shards: LA Teenage Horror Story

The Shards: LA Teenage Horror Story

The Shards is the new FX show from Ryan Murphy, who seems to be one of the only showrunners intent on staying in television and one where TV executives are still giving him a green light. In a TV landscape that is changing quickly, where funding is shifting between...

Darkest Light: A Great but Sinful Man

Darkest Light: A Great but Sinful Man

The film starts with powerful footage of worship alongside Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, a famous celebrity rabbi who was widely celebrated within the Jewish community, almost like a rock star within his specific religious circles. He was famous enough that even Michael...