Note: Minor spoilers for Ky Nam Inn below. I didn’t watch that many feel-good movies in 2025. I remember watching Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet and Yamaguchi Junta’s River, both fun romantic comedies. But when I finished Leon Le’s Ky Nam Inn, I thought to myself, “Oh, I’ve missed this.” I’ve missed the everyday rhythms […]
Halfway through Rosemead, Irene (Lucy Liu) overhears some of her fellow immigrant mothers gossiping about her teenage son at a party. She confronts them in a slight and curt way, insisting that there’s nothing wrong with her son before angrily storming away – much to the shock of the two women on the receiving end […]
History is rarely clear cut. Even having visual archives to comb through aren’t guaranteed, and for the most marginalized, under-resourced communities, archiving history is all the more essential. Thankfully, Because of You (Dahil Sa ‘Yo): A History of Kilawin Kolektibo anchors the intersectional, radical organization Kilawin Kolektibo against the backdrop of a disparate queer Pinay […]
What is it like to be a teenager in 2025? If I had to wager a guess, I’d say it would be very different from what it was back in the 2010s. Social media is not a suggestion, but a given. DMing strangers and forming connections on the Internet, although not unheard of back in […]
2008 was sixteen years ago. If you were born in that year, you can now legally drive a car, which means that Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and whoever is next are going through their formative years right now. Like it or not (and you probably don’t), a film about life in 2008 is now considered […]