Michael Sun

New Critic: The safe but monotonous facade of suburbia has long inspired teenage dreams of escape. But for a generation of migrant families like mine, the suburbs were a romanticised dream of assimilation. How can new and classic films help us reconcile these dissonant mythologies?

New Critic: Club scenes are a common motif in queer cinema, capturing both the desire for liberation and transformation. But do the dancefloors of seminal films speak to the potentialities of real queer spaces? Or are they merely wish fulfilment?

MIFF Critics Campus review In My Blood It Runs, The Dead Don’t Die and Sorry We Missed You