This review of Beef is based off of Episode 1 and 2, which had its World Premiere at SXSW 2023. If you’ve lived in Los Angeles, or really, any metropolitan area in the United States, you’ll know that road rage is a real, palpable thing. Maybe someone cuts you off on the highway, merges into […]
Back in January, when I first saw Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the world felt different. The world was different. Coronavirus hadn’t been identified in the States yet. “Social distancing” wasn’t a thing. Rampant racism against Asians and Asian Americans (which was always there in a more diluted form) hadn’t […]