Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. There’s something magical happening with teen coming-of-age stories lately and I spoke with lead actor Emma Galbraith to discuss our love of the YA genre, collaborative ...
Ashish Pant’s ‘The Knot’ explores what happens when India’s social bubbles are broken
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Ashish Pant was driving with his father and sister through the city of Lucknow in northern India when they got into an accident with a scooter driver who had run a red light. He was on ...
Anne Hu’s love letter to her mother is a quintessential Asian American story
Written By: Aditya Sharma If you are the child of immigrants who grew up in the United States, odds are you have experienced a lunchbox moment. Odds are that the food you brought looks, smells and tastes different (read: better). But the feeling of ...
‘Nomadland’: Beneath the beauty that veils the film’s contradictions
Written By: Kyubin Kim During a global pandemic when we are sequestered in our homes, road movies hit a certain kind of nerve. While watching director Chloé Zhao’s sprawling film “Nomadland” (2020) set across windy sea cliffs and sunsets stretching acro ...
‘Unforgiven’: An analysis of the ‘Asian Gaze’ in cinema
Written By: Nathan Liu This article contains spoilers for both versions of “Unforgiven.” When a prostitute is disfigured by one of her clients, and the local sheriff does nothing to punish the perpetrator, the scarred woman’s co-worke ...
‘Chan Is Missing’: A search for cultural identity
Written By: Sonny Arifien of Privilege of Legends “If this were a TV mystery, then an important clue would pop up at this time …” Has anyone seen Chan? He went missing back in 1982 and hasn’t been seen since. It seems like a lifetime ago now, and ...
‘The White Tiger’: A rags-to-revenge story
Written By: Aditya Sharma Disclaimer: spoilers ahead! In the first two minutes of Netflix’s “The White Tiger” we hear the opening to Punjabi MC and Jay-Z’s “Beware of The Boys” and see a man dressed as a Maharajah swerve out of the way of an oncom ...
‘Minari’ — Family matters
Written By: Jeremy Lim A touching and heartfelt story about what it means to be a Korean American immigrant, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” takes an incredibly personal account of Arkansas in the 1980s and turns it into something that can be understood by al ...
Chasing the American dream in ‘Take Out Girl’
Written By: Saiya Floyd The first glimpse we get of Tera — the protagonist of “Take Out Girl” — is of the back of her head. More specifically, the baseball cap that says “Never Compromise.” And neither Tera or the movie does. When we meet T ...