There’s nothing like a long-lost pet to stir memories of childhood. We all remember our first dog, or cat (or whatever). In “Pop Aye,” a disillusioned architect is paralyzed by a midlife crisis when a ...

An elephant and a man walk into a film. No, it’s not the start of a joke but the premise of an offbeat charmer called “Pop Aye,” a film that’s emotional and amusing by turn and marks the feature debut ...

Kirsten Tan's feature debut is a trip worth taking. Jean-Luc Godard once wrote that all one needs to make a film are a girl and a gun. Kirsten Tan’s “Pop Aye” suggests that a guy and an elephant will ...

“Pop Aye” is a road movie with a very unusual set of traveling companions. One is a disillusioned architect. The other is an elephant. Together they walk and ride in trucks from Bangkok to the ...

Filmmaker Kirsten Tan riffs on the tropes of both the buddy film and the road trip movie in her absurd yet subtly observed feature debut “Pop Aye.” The writer and director sets a tragicomic tone early ...

While much attention has currently (and rightfully) been drawn toward Bong Joon Ho’s Okja within the realm of human-and-beast cinema, Kirsten Tan’s Pop Aye is a worthy companion. Intimately canvassed ...

In writer-director Kirsten Tan's first feature, an aging architect reconnects with his long-lost elephant, and the two embark upon a loosely... As it winds north through rural Thailand, Pop Aye makes ...

“Pop Aye” is a road movie with a very unusual set of traveling companions. One is a disillusioned architect. The other is an elephant. Reach the writer at 402-473-7244 or [email protected].

As it winds north through rural Thailand, Pop Aye makes only a brief stop at a Buddhist site. But there's plenty of karma in writer-director Kirsten Tan's affecting low-key drama, beginning with its ...

As it winds north through rural Thailand, Pop Aye makes only a brief stop at a Buddhist site. But there's plenty of karma in writer-director Kirsten Tan's affecting low-key drama, beginning with its ...