Author Archives: Nick Chen

About Nick Chen

26-year-old journalist who's written for places like Total Film, Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Complex, SFX Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Grolsch Film Works, London Calling, Vice, and a bunch of other places. Why pencils have razors. Based on a book. Screenwriter. Buzz word. London. Twitter: @halfacanyon. Lesser known Olsen brother. Multiple instances of words misused contemporaneously.

Film reviews 25: “The Hunger Games”, “Shame”, “We Bought a Zoo” and 8 others…

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Nick Chen

This month: “Ace in the Hole”, “Chatroom”, “Dogtooth”, “Goon”, “The Hunger Games”, “Into the Abyss”, “Léon”, “Shame”, “Stranger Than Paradise” (pictured above), “We Bought a Zoo” and “You and I”. This time, the average rating is 5.18/10 with film of … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Gary Ross, Hideo Nakata, jim jarmusch, Luc Besson, Michael Dowse, Roland Joffe, Steve McQueen, Werner Herzog, Yorgos Lanthimos | 1 Comment

Film reviews 24: “The Muppets”, “Carnage”, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and 11 others…

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Nick Chen

This month: “8½”, “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Carnage”, “In Time”, “Martha Marcy May Marlene”, “Mean Streets”, “The Muppets”, “Ninotchka” (pictured above), “Persona”, “Raging Bull”, “Run Fatboy Run”, “The Sitter”, “To Be or Not to Be” and “Welcome to the Dollhouse”. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Andrew Niccol, Arthur Penn, david gordon green, David Schwimmer, Ernst Lubitsch, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, James Bobin, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Sean Durkin, Todd Solondz | 1 Comment

Film reviews 23: “Young Adult”, “War Horse”, “The Descendants”, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” and 9 others…

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Nick Chen

This month: “A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas”, “The Descendants”, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, “The Help”, “Hugo”, “Suspiria” (pictured above), “Terms of Endearment”, “Tiny Furniture”, “Tower Heist”, “The Vicious Kind”, “War Horse” and “Young Adult”. This month, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Alexander Payne, Brett Ratner, Dario Argento, James L Brooks, Jason Reitman, Jeff Nichols, Lee Toland Krieger, Lena Dunham, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Daldry, Steven Spielberg, Tate Taylor, Todd Strauss-Schulson | 2 Comments

Film reviews 22: “The Artist”, “Moneyball”, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and 16 others…

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Nick Chen

This month, I’ve been listening to you, the reader, and going through a backlog of recommendations. There are reviews of: “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”, “The Artist”, “Bellflower”, “The Brothers Solomon”, “The Cove”, “Cowboy Bebop”, “Dead Poets Society”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Adrian Lyne, Andrew Bujalski, Bennett Miller, Bob Odenkirk, Cristian Mungiu, Evan Glodell, Jacques Demy, Joe Swanberg, John McTiernan, Juzo Itami, Louie Psihoyos, Lynne Ramsey, Michel Hazanavicius, Peter Weir, Shinichiro Watanabe, Thomas Bezucha, Tomas Alfredson, Yann Samuell | 5 Comments

Kenicky’s 2011 film roundup

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Nick Chen

Hello. It’s so cold. It reminds me of when Bill Callahan said, “Tonight, I’m swimming to my favourite island.” Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, here’s my thoughts on the films that came out this year. 1. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review, round up | 12 Comments