Alan Ng

Just Lie to Me

By Alan Ng | July 2024

A frustrated bartender finds herself in an existential crisis in life in Kelly Walker’s short film Just Lie to Me. After a…

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A frustrated bartender finds herself in an existential crisis in life in Kelly Walker's short film Just Lie to Me. After a frustrating tattoo session,...

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In Dylan Levine's short film The Clock Painter, a working-class teen, Clara (Anna Maria Blackwood), has trouble making friends at her school. After being...

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PALM SPRINGS SHORTFEST 2024 REVIEW! Mountains out of molehills...that is the story behind Dylan Joseph's short film, French. The bond of trust between a...

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As much as I loved Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, I get the hesitation. It's pretty dense and that is not a word I would normally...

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NOW IN THEATERS! I don't know if you noticed this, but kids who saw the first Despicable Me in 2010 are now too old to enjoy Gru and the Minions. At least...

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I think uncovered another so-bad-its-good in Ashley Billington's b-horror, The Dark Hammock. If anything, it's a throwback to the early DIY horrors of...

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Let me start by saying that I know nothing about the ancient stories of Icelandic Vikings. Now I do. Filmmaker and composer Jeffrey Leiser weaves together...

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As a father with a small child, COVID was not easy. Children like mine suffered in a way that, quite frankly, I’m starting to feel could have been...

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I find it interesting that when it comes to discussions of human evolution, the discipline most obsessed with it is the arts. In Warren Fischer's short...

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Ok. You got me. Kudos to Bob Celli and his short film, Because I Love You. Marco (Bob Celli) and Joanna (Jennifer Plotzke) are preparing for a dinner...

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