How many life problems can be solved through the music of Bruce Springsteen? As Gurinder Chadha‘s joyous film Blinded by the Light might suggest, the answer is, quite frankly, all of them. The film follows ...
There’s no doubt that Doris Yeung‘s The Ugly Model is a documentary that tackles a difficult subject matter, but it seems to have lost its way somewhere between its conception and its execution. Doubling as ...
Justin Chon‘s third feature film Ms. Purple is a film that gives an unflinchingly real portrayal of a young woman stuck within familial turmoil. Tiffany Chu gives a stunning performance in her breakthrough role as ...
In this genre-spanning film, director Minh Duc Nguyen brings the magic of moviemaking to his backyard of Garden Grove, CA. Actress Wanted follows struggling actress Mai (Thien Nguyen) as she takes on an acting job ...
When you get down to it, Mike Gan’s “School Spirit” is a story that we’ve all heard before. A combination of the we’re-not-so-different-after-all cloyingness of The Breakfast Club, and the teenage debauchary of many a ...
To San Francisco-based EDM musician AIR APPARENT (Neil Sethi), the concept of dreaming is fascinating. On his SoundCloud page, he admits, “i watched inception too many times so now i write and produce songs about dreams ...
Back in 1979, China implemented a revolutionary program known as the One-Child Policy, which aimed to curb the rising population within the country. As the name suggested, families were limited to only one child per ...
Warning: Minor Spoilers Below. To critics and Asian American audiences alike, Lulu Wang’s sophomore feature The Farewell was never going to fail. That much was apparent in the insane rollout and press cycle for the ...
Throughout her prolific career as a music video director, Los Angeles based filmmaker Maegan Houang has explored a wide range of dark fantasy topics with her uncompromising direction. But while videos like "Chatroom", "Happy", and ...
At the tail-end of 2018, the members of the now sizable group ACN: Los Angeles held a holiday mixer. Asian American artists all around Southern California showed up–exchanging business cards, drinking, and 1-v-1-ing each other ...
