Amanda Yam

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Ten Thousand Saints | Review I

East Village Ennui: Coming of Age Story Displaced, Too Hip For Own Good A coming of age narrative comprised of the familiar: teen angst, frustration,...

Meru | Review

Treacherous Journey to The Top Shows Unmeasured Determination At over 20,000 feet, the highest peak of the Meru Mountain, also known as the Shark’s Fin,...

Big Significant Things | Review

Eager Yet Flawed: Indie Darling is Safe-Guarded and Traditional Brian Reisberg's debut feature has many of the usual markings of an indie sleeper hit but like an...

Irrational Man | Review

Tepid Contemplation: The Unraveling of a Mild Murder Plot For his 46th feature film, Irrational Man calls upon Woody Allen’s fascination, or at least tendency to create a...

What Happened, Miss Simone? | Review

Writing on the Wall: Garbus Offers Compressed Portrait of Soul-Gospel-Jazz Queen Nina Simone, a prominent musician-turned-civil-rights-activist, left behind a legacy in which the latter part...

Breaking

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...
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