Alan Ng

In The Shadow Of The Cypress

By Alan Ng | November 2024

In the animated short In the Shadow of the Cypress, filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani tell the story of an older…

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In the animated short In the Shadow of the Cypress, filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani tell the story of an older sea captain grappling with...

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In Barnaby Blackburn's short film Pylon, a young boy and his sister wander through a sunlit field on a quiet summer day. Their peaceful walk takes a dark...

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Animator Kevin Delgado is publishing a steady series of animated shorts. Most recently, we reviewed his bloody WWII adventure, Mission 19, and now we move...

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It's really simple. To make a great movie adaptation of a Broadway musical, give us the spirit of the musical and do the songs justice. Few have succeeded,...

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Filmmaker Tim Polomani's short film, The Rabble, tells an odd tale about totalitarianism and a resistance movement determined to overthrow it. In 2024, the...

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Comedy is so hard to pull off in film...let alone every other medium. It's just so amazing to see it done right, as in Stephanie Röst's short film, My...

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Tea: The Drink That Changed The World takes us on a captivating journey through the history of tea's origins and role throughout human history. Narrated by...

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NOW IN THEATERS! There was a time when audiences would watch a movie solely based on its star power. This was a concept known as the "movie star." While...

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In Robin Hofmann's feature film I Win, a young teen, Jax (Austin Lampe), and his mother, Gloria (Sarah Malfara), move to a new town after his father's...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! I find joy in independent films from stories told free of big Hollywood studio interference. One such film is...

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