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 81: “Captain America: Civil War”, “Mustang”, “Special Correspondents”, “Rosetta”, “Before Sunrise” and 18 others…

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Nick Chen

This month: “Attack the Block”, “Bad Words”, “Before Midnight”, “Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset”, “Calvary”, “Captain America: Civil War”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Escape From Tomorrow”, “Everybody Wants Some!!”, “Goodbye to All That”, “Hannibal Takes Edinburgh”, “I’m Still Here”, “The Iron Giant”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged "Andrei Tarkovsky", Aki Kaurismäki, Angus MacLachlan, Anthony Russo, Brad Bird, Bryon Howard, Casey Affleck, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Don Cheadle, Jason Bateman, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Joachim Trier, Joe Cornish, Joe Russo, John Michael McDonagh, Luc Dardenne, Michael Dowse, Randy Moore, Rich Moore, Richard Linklater, Ricky Gervais, Ryan Ferguson, Stanley Donen | 1 Comment

Film reviews 80: “The Jungle Book”, “10 Cloverfield Lane”, “Batman v Superman”, “The Son’s Room”, “Search Party”, “The Gift” and 25 others…

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Nick Chen

This month: “Ashby”, “An Autumn Tale”, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, “Beyond the Lights” “Closet Monster”, “Couple in a Hole”, “Drifting Clouds” (pictured above), “Festival”, “Field of Dreams”, “The Gift”, “Hail, Caesar!”, “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”, “I Wish”, “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Annie Griffin, Éric Rohmer, Ben A. Williams, Catherine Corsini, Dan Trachtenberg, David Trueba, Ethan Coen, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Guillaume Canet, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jack Van Dormael, Jeff Nichols, Joel Coen, Joel Edgerton, John Boorman, Jon Favreau, Jorge Torres-Torres, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Nanni Moretti, Phil Alden Robinson, Scot Armstrong, Sebastián Silva, Stéphane Lafleur, Stephen Dunn, Tom Geens, Tony McNamara, Zack Snyder | 1 Comment

Film reviews 79: “Deadpool”, “Dirty Grandpa”, “Unfriended”, “Zero Motivation”, “That Awkward Moment”, “Not Fade Away” and 17 others…

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Nick Chen

This month: “American Movie”, “Arrietty”, “Ask Me Anything”, “Being Flynn”, “Clockwatchers”, “Deadpool”, “The Descent”, “Dirty Grandpa”, “L’Enfant d’en haut”, “Ghosts”, “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard”, “Le Goût des autres”, “Kristy”, “The Martian”, “A New Leaf”, “Not Fade Away”, “Picnic … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Agnès Jaoui, Allison Burnett, Chris Smith, Christian Petzold, Dan Mazer, Danny Boyle, David Chase, David Lynch, Elaine May, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Jill Sprecher, Leo Gabriadze, Neal Brennan, Neil Marshall, Oliver Blackburn, Paul Middleditch, Paul Weitz, Peter Weir, Ridley Scott, Stephen Fingleton, Tayla Lavie, Tim Miller, Tom Gormican, Ursula Meier | 1 Comment

Film reviews 78: “Spotlight”, “Our Brand is Crisis”, “Accidental Love”, “The Big Short”, “Sleeping With Other People”, “Joy” and 15 others…

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Nick Chen

This month: “Accidental Love”, “Analyze That”, “Analyze That”, “The Big Short”, “The Danish Girl”, “The Hateful Eight”, “Le Havre” (pictured above), “I Used to Be Darker”, “Joy”, “The Last Detail”, “Our Brand is Crisis”, “Point of No Return”, “The Revenant”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Adam McKay, Aki Kaurismäki, Alejandro González Iñárritu, david gordon green, David O. Russell, Hal Ashby, Harold Ramis, John Badham, Jonathan Demme, Leslye Headland, Matthew Porterfield, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Paolo Sorrentino, Peter Bogdanovich, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Reiner, Spike Lee, Tom Hooper, Tom McCarthy | 2 Comments

Kenicky’s 2015 film roundup

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Nick Chen

“A top 10 isn’t cool,” Justin Timberlake said in The Social Network. “You know what is cool? A top 125.” Well, life is meaningless: I know it, you know, and if you weren’t sure, this blog post will confirm it. … Continue reading →

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