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 21: “50/50″, “Another Earth”, “Friends With Benefits”, “My Week With Marilyn” and 14 others…

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “27 Dresses”, “30 Minutes or Less”, “50/50”, “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy”, “All the Real Girls”, “Another Earth” (pictured above), “Citizen Kane”, “Contagion”, “Dig!”, “The Fighter”, “Friends With Benefits”, “The Future”, “Like Crazy”, “Man on Wire”, “My Week With … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Alex Gregory, Anne Fletcher, david gordon green, David O. Russell, Drake Doremus, James Marsh, Jesse Peretz, Jonathan Levine, Julia Leigh, Mike Cahill, Miranda July, Ondie Timoner, Orson Welles, Peter Huyck, RJ Cutler, Ruben Fleischer, Simon Curtis, Steven Soderbergh, Will Gluck | 3 Comments

Film reviews 20: “Midnight in Paris”, “The Tree of Life”, “The Ides of March”, and 9 others…

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “American Splendor”, “Bad Teacher”, “Chalet Girl”, “Crazy, Stupid, Love”, “Horrible Bosses”, “The Ides of March”, “Inland Empire” (pictured above), “Lost Highway”, “Melancholia”, “Midnight in Paris”, “The Tree of Life” and “Undertow” This month, the average rating is 6.08/10, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged david gordon green, David Lynch, George Clooney, Glenn Ficarra, Jake Kasdan, John Requa, Lars von Trier, Phil Traill, Robert Pulcini, Seth Gordon, Shari Springer Berman, Terrence Malick, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

Film Reviews 19: “Bridesmaids”, “Source Code”, “Super 8”, “Attack the Block” and 20 others…

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Nick Chen

These are the films I watched over the last month: “Aguirre, the Wrath of God”, “Alexander the Last”, “Attack the Block”, “Barbarella”, “Big Fan”, “Bridesmaids”, “Cold Weather”, “Demonlover”, “The Fisher King”, “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (pictured above), … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aaron Katz, Andy Fickman, Anna Fletcher, Daisy von Scherley May, David O. Russell, David Robert Mitchell, Duncan JonesmTom Vaughan, Guy Maddin, JJ Abrams, Joe Cornishm, Joe Swanberg, John Stockwell, Jonathan Demme, José Luis Guerín, Olivier Assayas, Paul Feig, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert D Siegel, Roger Badim, Sam Jones, Terry Gilliam, Thomas McCarthy, Todd Berger, Werner Herzog | 1 Comment

Every Hal Hartley film reviewed

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Nick Chen

Is that his real name? Not only does he single-handedly write and direct all his films, but the heart is a muscle. Films reviewed: The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (pictured above, 1991), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994), … Continue reading →

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My exclusive interview with Brit Marling

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Nick Chen

@halfacanyon that would be a kinda awesome culture jam… Im just not sure what it means — brit marling (@britmarling) September 3, 2011

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