Irvine Film Festival

The Scorpion’s Tale

By Alan Ng | March 2019

The fable of The Scorpion and the Frog has appeared in countless television shows and movies, and quite often during a recent…

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The fable of The Scorpion and the Frog has appeared in countless television shows and movies, and quite often during a recent Presidential election. It’s...

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As a memorial to the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide, the film Map of Salvation, director Aram Shahbazyan tells the story of five women, who...

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As I sit here, thinking about Victorian supernatural mystery, The Isle by Tori and Matthew Butler Hart, I confess I’m an oafish American. I once received...

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If you want to be the best, talk to the best. OK, that’s not going on a fortune cookie any time soon. Conventional wisdom says that if you want to climb...

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As human beings, there are certain ideas that are universal and simple in concept, but in execution requires us to go beyond what is comfortable. One idea...