Taiwanese American film director Roxy Shih is used to delivering us scares — her directing credits include 2018’s feature film Painkillers to this year’s Facebook watch horror series Mira Mira. However, with her newest feature List of a Lifetime, Shih shows that tenderness and resilience is well within her range of storytelling. List of a […]
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 climate. But while casual racism against Asian Americans are very lightly mentioned in the film (there exists an early scene […]
Go Back to China is director Emily Ting’s most personal film to date: toy factory and all. After failing to find a job in Los Angeles, spoiled designer Sasha (Anna Akana) is forced by her father Teddy (Richard Ng) to return to China against her wishes to work for the family’s toy factory. The stakes are […]