Alan Ng

Burton Before and After

By Alan Ng | July 2019

Documentaries are a crap shoot, especially if the story has yet to be told. Fifteen years ago, director Courtney Hermann documented her…

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Documentaries are a crap shoot, especially if the story has yet to be told. Fifteen years ago, director Courtney Hermann documented her friend Burton Ford...

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If you’ve seen the trailers or know the basic story behind Yesterday, and you see a healthy amount of movies every year, Danny Boyle’s Yesterday is a...

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When you’re in love, you do crazy things…like pre-mature proposals. This is the case in The Proposal from Norway’s Det Sporadiske...

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The thriller is very similar to a comedy. There’s a set-up, a build-up, and the punch line. One end in a laugh and other in a distant contemplative...

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Nate Ruegger’s Trust Me—A Witness Account of the Goatman opens with an ominous bit of information. The “Goatman” is: “A creature native to the...

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Tell me what you paid for it and I’ll tell you if it’s beautiful. – Matt Jaeborn. Art is subjective, and determining the value of art is...

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China’s One Child Policy has created a big business for surrogate mothers. The practice of IVF and surrogacy is illegal in China, so American couples can...

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I was there. Right on the bandwagon, when MySpace and Facebook made its mark on the internet. When I graduated from high school, I spoke to practically no...

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Tom Harper’s Wild Rose is the rags-to-riches story of Rose-Lynn Harlan, an ex-con country singer from Glasgow and her journey to find fame as a country...

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It’s been more than once that I’ve faced the prospect of a loved one struggling with cancer. Sadly, the win/loss record is nothing to celebrate. Cancer...

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