<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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The Bikeriders: Tracking Change

The Bikeriders: Tracking Change

Aug 5, 2024

As an American filmmaker, Jeff Nichols has always been interested in America and its more unexplored parts. In another collaboration with Michael Shannon (but not starring him), Nichols loosely adapts the plotless collection of photos and interviews of Danny Lyon, who...

Twisters: What Audiences Need

Twisters: What Audiences Need

Jul 19, 2024

A hometown boy takes an issue true to his heart and his home. Then, he makes it come to life on the big screen in their first blockbuster movie. It's the ideal project for any director who ever imaged themselves making big movies. Lee Isaac Chung serves his first with...

Ezra: A Journey Worth Taking

Ezra: A Journey Worth Taking

May 29, 2024

Raising a child can be one of the hardest things to do because they are a reflection of you. This seems to be the anthesis of Ezra directed by Tony Goldwyn as Max (Bobby Canavale), Jenna (Rose Byrne) and Stan (Robert De Niro) all do their best to learn and understand...

We Grown Now: Youth under fire

We Grown Now: Youth under fire

May 10, 2024

Set in 1992 within the Cabrini Green neighbourhood of Chicago, We Grown Now looks at the lives of two young boys, Malik (Blake James Cameron) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez). Their family homes--and legacy--confronts them as their neighbourhood comes under the scare of...

HotDocs ’24: The Click Trap

HotDocs ’24: The Click Trap

May 3, 2024

For those who are not already aware, the reason that the internet is free is because the internet is not the product. You are the product. It's this awareness that The Click Trap is attempting to spread in its extensive coverage of the online marketing world and how...

HotDocs ’24: The Strike

HotDocs ’24: The Strike

May 3, 2024

A harrowing tribute to the human spirit, The Strike covers a side of the prison system that most would disagree with yet has been thriving for multiple decades. (In fact, in many cases, the system has kept the same individual in solitary confinements for that amount...

HotDocs ’24: Fly

HotDocs ’24: Fly

May 1, 2024

National Geographic is behind a film that many will call a spiritual successor to Free Solo as it features people taking on an extreme sport that can result in their death. Personally, I found the documentary to be more akin to Goodfellas, where the thrills and...

HotDocs ’24: Curl Power

HotDocs ’24: Curl Power

May 1, 2024

A TELUS original, based in the west coast, Curl Power follows the 4K girls, a high school team of Curlers whose aspirations to make the curling nationals is only matched by their efforts to figure out who they are and how to navigate life as they head towards the end...

HotDocs ’24: Daughters of Genghis

HotDocs ’24: Daughters of Genghis

May 1, 2024

Filmed over the course of seven years, Daughters of Genghis is a study of a woman named Gerel, a formidable neo-nationalist who guides a women-led movement to protect her homeland of Mongolia and the ideals that she believes are tied to the country. One of her main...