Tag: David Chan

The Surrogate | Review

She’s Having a Baby: Hersh Mines Moral Dilemma in Compelling Melodrama Melodrama as a genre, especially narratives centered deliberately on moral or ethical dilemmas,...

Selah and The Spades | Review

School for Scoundrels: Poe Preens a Teen Queen with Curious, Benign Debut Director Tayarisha Poe fashions her debut Selah and The Spades, a YA drama...

Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Stylish, slick and super sophisticated for a micro-indie of this scale, what works marvels is Tayarisha Poe's the film's narrative blue print and universe. Selah and...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #73. Selah and the Spades – Tayarisha Poe

Receiving a ton of support along the way, the micro-budgeted Selah and the Spades went into production this summer in Tayarisha Poe's backyard of...

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Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre...