Forty minutes between life and death Written By: Demi Guo Content Warning: This article contains deep analyses and discussion of the nature and morality of suicide, which is the core theme of the film. The film starts with gunshots i ...
‘Dinner Party’ creates space for us to imagine a better future
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Content warning: sexual assault. For many of us, the world we’re living in now is much different from the world we grew up in. As our knowledge of human experiences broa ...
Conversations with friends: ‘See You Then’ finds power in subtlety
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Throughout the past few months, we've been slowly trickling out of isolation and into “hot vax summer,” and that also meant having awkward conversations with friends we ...
‘Mickey on the Road’ celebrates female heroes
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Since her childhood growing up in Taiwan under martial law, director Mian-Mian Lu has been pushing conventional boundaries. In high school, Lu started a drama club and d ...
Diasporized and undocumented: On the criminalizing immigration system in Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’
Written By: Kano Umezaki This article may contain spoilers. In addition to cultural estrangement, the Korean migrant experience can also be characterized by its forgettings. With a severed homeland leading to forced transnation ...
With ‘The Fabulous Filipino Brothers,’ Dante Basco gives us ‘crazy blue-collar Asians.’
Written By: Nathan Liu This article may contain spoilers. Everything you need to know about Dante Basco’s directorial debut, “The Fabulous Filipino Brothers,” is right there in its title. It’s about being a brother and it’s about being Filipino. ( ...
‘Americanish’ mixes light-hearted fun and powerful representation
Written By: Jeremy Lim This article may contain spoilers. Romantic comedies seem to get a bad rap from a lot of people.These detractors point to the formulaic structure that rom-coms like to continuously dole out to the public. ...
‘Waikiki’: Half remembered dream or waking nightmare?
Written By: Nathan Liu This article may contain spoilers. When you hear “Waikiki,” what do you think? White beaches? Blue waves? Drinks with tiny umbrellas? I’ll bet it’s not homelessness or domestic violence. And yet, both thi ...
After more than a decade, ‘Snakehead’ premieres
And it’s an evergreen story inspired by the past, set in the modern day Written By: Demi Guo This article may contain spoilers. In 2017, Evan Jackson Leong was known for the 2013 hit, “Linsanity,” which had taken up most of his time since. But no ...