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 75: “Straight Outta Compton”, “Vacation”, “Manglehorn”, “Hot Pursuit”, War Book” and 15 others…

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Nick Chen

This month: “8 Mile”, “Barbershop”, “Barbershop 2: Back in business”, “Le dernier métro”, “Do the Right Thing” (pictured above), “The Father of My Children”, “Hamlet Goes Business”, “Hot Pursuit”, “The Jerk”, “Last Days”, “Manglehorn”, “Mistress America”, “My Sex Life… or … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Anne Fletcher, Arnaud Desplechin, Carl Reiner, Curtis Hanson, david gordon green, Dylan Southern, F. Gary Gray, François Truffaut, Gus Van Sant, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Goldstein, Kent Alterman, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Mia Hansen-Løve, Noah Baumbach, Rhys Thomas, Robert Altman, Rupert Goold, Spike Lee, Tim Story, Tom Harper, Will Lovelace | 1 Comment

Film reviews 74: “Pixels”, “Trainwreck” and “Gemma Bovery”

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Nick Chen

This week there are reviews of Pixels (out 12 August), Trainwreck (out 14 August), and Gemma Bovery (out 21 August). Just when I thought I was Al, they Pacino me back in. For other things I’ve written in the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Anne Fontaine, Chris Columbus, Judd Apatow | 1 Comment

Film reviews 73: “Inside Out”, “Ant-Man”, “Maggie”, “The Infinite Man”, “Porco Rosso”, “Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces” and 15 others…

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Nick Chen

This month: “Ant-Man”, “Are You Here”, “Attenberg”, “Calamari Union”, “Cold Fish”, “Containment”, “Desperately Seeking Susan”, “The Devil’s Backbone”, “Good Bye, Lenin!”, “The Infinite Man”, “Inside Out”, “Look at What the Light Did Now”, “The Lovely Bones”, “Maggie”, “Magic Mike XXL”, “Mumblecore”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Anthony Minghella, Anthony Seck, Athina Rachel Tsangari, David Lynch, Guillermo del Toro, Hayao Miyazaki, Henry Hobson, Lasse Hallström, Matthew Weiner, Megan Boyle, Monte Hellman, Neil Mcenery-West, Pete Docter, Peter Jackson, Peyton Reed, Sean S. Baker, Sion Sono, Susan Seifelman, Tao Lin, Wolfgang Becker | 1 Comment

Film reviews 72: “Jurassic World”, “Terminator Genisys”, “Slow West”, “They All Laughed”, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and 14 others…

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Nick Chen

This month: “About Last Night”, “Above & Below”, “Astraea”, “The Beat That My Heart Skipped”, “The Better Angels”, “The Fire”, “The Green Ray”, “Hits”, “Jurassic World”, “Life in a Fishbowl”, “A Million Ways to Die in the West”, “Pee-wee’s Big … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged A.J. Edwards, Alan Taylor, Éric Rohmer, Baldvin Zophoníasson, Christopher K. Walker, Colin Trevorrow, Eli Roth, Jacques Audiard, Joachim Trier, John Maclean, Juan Schnitman, Kristjan Thor, Luc Besson, Michael Beach Nichols, Nicolas Steiner, Peter Bogdanovich, Ross Sutherland, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Pink, Tim Burton, Zach Braff | 1 Comment

Film reviews 71: “Spy”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Love Exposure”, “Harmontown” and 10 others…

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Nick Chen

This month: “Alps”, “Chronicle”, “Harmontown”, “Hope and Glory”, “Irrérvsible”, “Mad Max”, “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Match Factory Girl”, “Olso, August 31st”, “Paranoid Park”, “Pride” and “Prisoners”. I wrote some other things elsewhere including … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Denis Villeneuve, George Miller, Giorgos Lanthimos, Gus Van Sant, Joachim Trier, Josh Trank, Matthew Warchus, Neil Berkeley, Paul Feig, Sion Sono | 1 Comment