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 14: “Never Let Me Go”, “Enter the Void”, “Days of Heaven”, “Blue Valentine” and 21 others…

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “A Woman Under the Influence”, “All About My Mother”, “American Graffiti”, “Assassination of a High School President”, “Badlands”, “Blue Valentine”, “Broadcast News”, “Crimewave”, “Days of Heaven” (pictured above), “Enter the Void”, “Following”, “Howard Stern’s Private Parts”, “Lost and … Continue reading →

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The best short story ever written

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Nick Chen

Pretty much every sentence is worth reading.

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Film Reviews 13: “127 Hours”, “Whip It!”, “Post Grad”, “Spider-Man 1/2/3” and 15 others…

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “127 Hours”, “A Matter of Life and Death”, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, “Get Him to the Greek”, “The Goddess of 1967”, “The House of Yes”, “Kicking and Screaming”, “Monsters”, “Post Grad”, “Sin City”, “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Spider-Man”, “Spider-Man … Continue reading →

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This is written by me.

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Nick Chen

http://musicisart.ws/be-prepared-for-likely-and-unlikely-events/

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Every Woody Allen film reviewed

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Nick Chen

Woody Allen was born in 1935, and is aiming to make 1935 films before he dies. Here’s a review of every Woody Allen film, starting with What’s New, Pussycat, right up to whatever’s he released last. This page will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Complete filmography, Film review | Tagged Woody Allen | 3 Comments