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 […]
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 […]
At this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, dozens of films represented the cinematic talent of various Asian communities across the globe, but only one film spoke true to the often convoluted Asian American experience. Director Tom Huang’s latest, Dealing with Dad, follows the story of Margaret (Ally Maki) and her two brothers Larry (Hayden […]
Kim Ji-young (Jung Yu-mi), Born 1982, lives at home with her two-year-old daughter. Having sacrificed her dream of being an author to work at a marketing agency, and then sacrificed her life at the agency to care for her daughter, Ji-young is suffocating under an avalanche of quiet disappointments and quotidian agonies. The pain she […]