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 12: “Black Swan”, “The Kids Are All Right”, “Youth in Revolt” and 12 others…

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Nick Chen

This month: “Barcelona”, “Black Swan”, “Cléo de 5 à 7”, “Cyrus”, “Easy A”, “Ella Enchanted”, “Holiday in Handcuffs”, “The Kids are All Right”, “Me and Orson Welles”, “The Palm Beach Story”, “Somers Town”, “Somewhere”, “You Can Count on Me” (pictured … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Agnès Varda, Darren Aranofsky, Jay Duplass, Kenneth Lonergan, Lisa Cholodenko, Mark Duplass, Mel Brooks, Miguel Arteta, Preston Sturges, Richard Linklater, Roy Underwood, Shane Meadows, Sofia Coppola, Tommy O'Haver, Whit Stillman, Will Gluck | 2 Comments

Film Reviews 11: “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt 1”, “She’s Out of My League”, “Metropolitan” and 16 others…

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Nick Chen

This month: “10 Items or Less”, “The Big Bad Swim”, “The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Down in the Valley”, “Election”, “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1”, “Imagine Me and You”, “The Lady Eve”, “Lymelife”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Alexander Payne, Billy Wilder, Brad Silberling, David Jacobson, David Yates, Derick Martini, Frank Tashlin, Howard Zieff, Ishai Setton, Jim Field Smith, Ol Parker, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Care, Preston Sturges, Ridley Scott, Sidney Lumet, Ted Smith, Whit Stillman | Leave a comment

Film Reviews 10: “The Social Network”, “World’s Greatest Dad”, “Winter’s Bone” and 19 others…

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Nick Chen

This month: “À Bout de Souffle”, “Baghead”, “Blood Simple”, “The Chumscrubber”, “CQ” (pictured above), “Flirting with Disaster”, “Good Dick”, “I Heart Huckabees”, “King of California”, “Once”, “Please Give”, “The Puffy Chair”, “Rocket Science”, “Runaway”, “Singles”, “The Social Network”, “Spanking the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Arie Posin, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Fincher, David O. Russell, Debra Granik, Jay Duplass, Jean-Luc Godard, Jeffrey Blitz, John Carney, Kanye West, Marianna Palka, Mark Duplass, Mike Cahill, Nicole Holofcener, Preston Sturges, Roman Coppola | 4 Comments

Film Reviews 9: “Scott Pilgrim vs the World”, “Piranha 3D”, “All About Steve”, “A Beautiful Mind” and 16 others…

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Nick Chen

This month: “A Beautiful Mind”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “All About Steve”, “Children of Men”, “The Exorcist”, “Friends with Money”, “Gregory’s Girl”, “Hot Fuzz”, “I’m Here”, “Idiocracy”, “The Last Word”, “Moon”, “Out of the Blue”, “Piranha 3D”, “Planet Terror”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Alexandre Aja, Alfonso Cuaron, Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Forsyth, Dennis Hopper, Duncan Jones, Edgar Wright, Georggrey Haley, Mike Judge, Nicole Holofcener, Phil Traill, Rob McKittrick, Robert Rodriguez, Roberto Benigni, Ron Howard, Spike Jonze, Wes Craven, William Friedkin | 2 Comments

The subtle and unsubtle effects of advertising

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Nick Chen

Don’t Throw It Away (Unless If It’s A Boomerang) or “The subtle and unsubtle effects of advertising” And the dinosaur turned to me to say, “I wanted to send that love letter, but I didn’t have a brick.”[1] I didn’t … Continue reading →

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