One of the greatest things about being able to cover SXSW over multiple years is seeing which artists come back with material. I met one such artist, Chi Thai, at an Asian networking event in 2022 who had helped develop an AR project, Prototype: Acorn. And while we didn’t meet in person in 2023, the […]
It would be an understatement to say that SXSW 2024 was thick with the air of Monkey Man. The fervor for the premiere was as pervasive and mysterious as the cryptic legend the film is based on. Jordan Peele famously picked the film up from Netflix and gave it a theatrical release, which was enough […]
When it comes to mythical and cryptid beasts, Asia has such a rich and varied tapestry of folklore to draw upon that it’s a crime we don’t see more of them in horror films. Take Folklore, HBO Asia’s well-regarded horror anthology series as an example — here, directors from throughout Asia made short-form concept films […]
This Thursday, the turducken of the Avatar franchise will come out of the oven. Fifteen years since the end of the original series, fourteen years since the last live action film, and ten years since the end of the sequel series, the second live action adaptation of the original series will be released on Netflix. […]
The past couple of years has forced us all to reckon with a pronounced sense of loneliness. Whether it was social and physical isolation or questions of whether our careers were truly forever stuck, the pandemic further exposed our insecurities of how much time we had to accomplish what we wanted to. At this year’s […]