Alan Ng

The Opening Act

By Alan Ng | January 2021

I have a great deal of admiration for stand-up comedians. I’ve been a fan of stand-up since its boom in the 1980s….

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I have a great deal of admiration for stand-up comedians. I've been a fan of stand-up since its boom in the 1980s. I lived near the Comedy & Magic Club...

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In Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, "a pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an...

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Being the middle child in my family, I've had this natural instinct to find the middle/more moderate ground on most debates. In this polarized world, the...

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The weirdest thing to me about watching romantic comedies, compared to other genres, is that they're able to get away with unrealistic storylines and...

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The title of writer-director E.B. Hughes' The Long Way Back is a perfect description of the road to redemption. Max Lyons (Denny Dale Bess) is a free...

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How many road trip buddies have been made since the beginning of cinema? Too many, right? How many of them were actually good? I found one from a most...

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The best part of a relationship is being with your soulmate for all eternity. The worst part of said relationship is being with THAT soulmate for all...

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Documentaries are, in a way, the small, smooth stones in the world's David versus Goliath fights. In Matt Wechsler and Annie Speicher's political...

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One of the aspects of Pixar is their willingness to push the boundaries of storytelling and animation technology. They are clearly established as the...

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