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 […]
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 […]
I’ll be honest: up until recently, I wasn’t a Marvel fan. I guess a part of it had to do with the fact that superhero movies existed in a realm outside of what I knew out here in suburban Asian American life. Those films didn’t seem to speak to me as an audience member, nor […]
The desecration of 5 Pointz came suddenly one night in 2013. Paid men, at the behest of a real estate developer, painted over the graffitied murals that adorned the walls of this Queens complex. A gross, white layer of gunk was slathered on top of the colorful tapestry of aerosol paint that had occupied the […]