Karen Han

Director Bi Gan talks leveling up at Cannes, his new masterpiece and 3D movies
By Karen Han
Bi Gan’s first feature film, Kaili Blues, was made for just over $30,000, in the Chinese filmmaker’s hometown. The crew was mostly made up of volunteers, and Bi assembled relatives and friends for the cast. It speaks to just how incredible that…
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Netflix’s ‘Cargo’ is the latest genre film to reckon with Australia’s treatment of indigenous people
By Karen Han
At first glance, Cargo, Netflix’s latest original film, is just another zombie movie. Zombie plague breaks out, man becomes infected, man fights to keep his baby daughter from becoming infected, too. It’s a classic sort of tale. But as the film…
Actress-singer Nive Nielsen talks AMC’s ‘The Terror’ and representing Inuit heritage on TV
By Karen Han
More than a decade passed between Nive Nielsen’s first acting role and her second. In 2005, she made her onscreen debut as an unnamed Inuit woman in Terrence Malick’s colonial drama The New World. Her second part is on AMC’s historical-horror…