Alan Ng

A Bloody Mess

By Alan Ng | January 2021

Asis Sethi’s short film, A Bloody Mess, comes to me at the most opportune time, and at the risk of my family reading…

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Asis Sethi's short film, A Bloody Mess, comes to me at the most opportune time, and at the risk of my family reading this, I'll leave it at that. The...

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Hey News-Junkies! Have I got a documentary for you: Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus' documentary short, The Crossing. The action takes place in her hometown of...

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Sometimes life gives us that all-important wake-up call, usually at the oddest moments and in the most inane places. In Mojean Aria's Lucy, a lonely man...

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A teen is coming to grips with her feelings and much more in Asher Jelinsky and Nicole Vanden Broeck's short film, Elle. Elle (Sarah Sawyer) helps her...

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NOW ON HBO MAX! Can we consider Doug Liman's Locked Down the first post-pandemic film from a major studio? My issue is it goes far beyond what it needed...

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Writer/ director Ricardo Perez-Selsky brings the action to the U.S./ Mexico border in the short Sin Fronteras. Juliana (Amber Lee Ettinger) is on the run...

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Time stands still for a 9-year-old girl's Belarussian village in Aliaksei Paluyan's short film, Lake of Happiness. Young Jasja (Anastasiya Plyats) lives...

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Director Derek Stockton and screenwriter Megan Stockton's Quiet, Pretty Things is not perfect but succeeds by sheer determination. It represents what I...

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Jeremy Dubin and Ryan Lewis' short film, Strike Team Justice, runs quick, so I'll be brief. Young Jimmy is in a backyard tent on walkie-talkies with his...

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They say that distance makes the heart grow fonder. The reality about relationships is distance has a way of creating space between people. This gulf...

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