Alan Ng

Pitching Tents

By Alan Ng | December 2018

One genre I miss is the teen sex comedy. Who am I kidding, I don’t really miss it, but there have been…

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One genre I miss is the teen sex comedy. Who am I kidding, I don’t really miss it, but there have been some good ones in the past. Remember movies about...

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Approaching a classic is like treading on thin ice, is it really worth the attempt? Whether you’re making a sequel, reboot, tinkering with orientations...

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Declan Holmes (Matthew King) is a gifted screenwriter with a great deal of “potential,” but his life is at a standstill. He recently broke up with his...

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Human trafficking is like a virus…a corporate virus. It infects virtually every important industry in the world. I can point to several documentaries...

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A nice gimmick can add spice to an over told story, but you gotta rub in that spice to make a tasty meal. A Cool Fish had a nice gimmick, but the question...

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Maryam Farahzadi’s short animated film, Blue, naturally places the spotlight on feeling blue, specifically the isolated feeling that comes from being...

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Nothing tests a relationship more than a scam gone wrong in a barren desert and with death on the line. In J.D. Funari’s short film Exposure, a couple...

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As much as I love the last 10 years of Marvel films, great pains have been made to remove uniquely comic book elements of our heroes and stories in order...

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Short films in the thriller/horror category follow a fairly straightforward structure. It all begins with a slow reveal uncovering the real plot of the...

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The immortal words of Lord Acton still apply today, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This struggle for power, in these...

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