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 ...

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 ...