In the middle of Parasite, one of its characters asks another if they should feel bad about exploiting the rich Park family. “They’re rich but still nice,” he admits after some thought. But his family ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's an unfortunate fact of life that every great, slow-paced, colorfully lush Asian film that gets released immediately gets compared to those of director Wong Kar-wai. That's just the world we live in. And although ...
What does it mean to be an American in this day and age? It wasn't until recently that the answer to that once-simple question became more and more obscured--and more impossible...
Words simply can’t express what Chinese New Year means to a Chinese person. It’s a time of celebration, reflection, and lots and lots of all things red. But for those of us who haven’t seen ...
Going blindly into Go Back to China may be an interesting experience. With such an abrasive title, filmgoers might be a bit wary about going to a film so aggressively named–especially in our explosive political ...
Shirkers begins and ends with a saying. “There are movers, there are shakers, and then there are shirkers”, director Sandi Tan narrates. As we will soon come to learn, the shirkers are also often the most ...