Alan Ng

Burn

By Alan Ng | May 2022

In mob movies, a boss’ soldiers do what they’re told out of loyalty to family and without question unless they go after…

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In mob movies, a boss' soldiers do what they're told out of loyalty to family and without question unless they go after your family. In Patrick Lazzara's...

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I've noticed I tend to assign the moniker of Hallmark and Lifetime to issues-based films, but really it's a unique style of storytelling where the star is...

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The logline for Dustin Nowlin's short thriller, Incidental, says, "members of a broken family go to a motel to work out their differences." It says...

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One thing that happened to me during the pandemic was discovering Warrior on HBO Max. It was a fantastic show about the inner workings of the Chinese...

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Politics is broken… at a global level. Most of us can agree with that. But, can it be fixed, or are we doomed as a species? One outsider determined to...

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Even the greatest heroes from history had their moments of human weakness. That was true of renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass in Paul Grant's short...

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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Scott McGehee and David Siegel's Montana Story delves right into the mind and hearts of children of abuse. It's the story of...

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NEW TO DISCOVERY+! There's a fine line between being misguided and being a con-man. Keith Maitland's documentary, Dear Mr. Brody, is the story of a man who...

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As a critic, when I judge a film, I focus primarily on its storytelling more than anything else. Tell a good story, and audiences will forgive most of a...

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Climate change is slowly destroying the natural home of the Inuit tribe living in the Arctic. The elders of this habitat need the world to know what is...

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