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.

Mad Men

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Nick Chen

What can I do to make myself a better person? Anyway, here is my short review of the Mad Men Season 4 boxset for Moviecomps. (I didn’t get a review copy.)

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Every Lars von Trier film reviewed

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987), Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of it All (2006), Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011) and Nymphomaniac (2014). … Continue reading →

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Film Reviews 16: “The Green Hornet”, “The Fountain”, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and 18 others…

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “Alien”, “Apocalypse Now” (pictured above), “The Brothers Bloom”, “The Cat’s Meow”, “City Island”, “Eagle vs Shark”, “The Fountain”, “The Green Hornet”, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”, “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, “The Last Picture Show”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Oh … Continue reading →

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A cartoon by someone I’ve never heard of

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Nick Chen

From a very young age, I knew that someday I could grow up and become the princess of the internet.

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Film Reviews 15: “The King’s Speech”, “12 Monkeys”, “The Trotsky” and 14 others…

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “12 Monkeys”, “Art School Confidential”, “Charlie Bartlett”, “Cracks” (pictured above), “Dick”, “Drugstore Cowboy”, “Far From Heaven”, “Fetching Cody”, “Fired Up!”, “Josie and the Pussycats”, “Just Buried”, “The King’s Speech”, “Lonesome Jim”, “Modern Romance”, “Smart People”,  “Strike!” and “The … Continue reading →

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