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SXSW 2012 Has a Nice Handful of Asian Movies
This year, SXSW (a.k.a. South by Southwest) film festival has a very hearty helping of Asian-ness — and I’LL BE THERE! YAY! Sure, the music and interactive portions of the popular festival are big draws, but when it comes to the film festival, I am totally all over it. This year they will be featuring big time movies like the Jonah Hill/Channing Tatum comedy romp 21 Jump Street and Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods [...] Continue »
Jennifer Yuh Nelson Wins Annie Award for Kung Fu Panda 2
On Saturday, February 4th, 2012, Jennifer Yuh Nelson won the Annie Award for Best Director in a Feature Production with Kung Fu Panda 2. The Annie Award is basically the top award for animated films, and it’s not the only honor Nelson has attracted. She has won a previous Annie Award for story boarding for the first Kung Fu Panda film. Aside from being recognized as the top grossing female director ever with Kung Fu [...] Continue »
7500 Teaser Trailer Reveals My Worst Nightmare
I don’t fly that often to Japan but when I do, a myriad of nightmares come to play. Something horrible will happen to the plane. Something scary will happen on the flight. I’ll be stuck sitting next to a douchebag for the next 10 hours. Jamie Chung will be my flight attendant. You know what I mean. And occasionally, a new film mashes all of that together, titled 7500. Directed by Takashi Shimizu, the guy [...] Continue »
I am Bruce Lee Documentary Trailer & Why We Should Remember His Legacy
Bruce Lee. Do I really have to write anymore? Those two words are worth more than anything I will write, mainly because there’s just some many different takes and angles on this incredible person who influenced the world in more ways than one. But too many people don’t realise, he was far more than the punchs and kicks, he was someone who was fully in tandem with how life incorporates both the body and the [...] Continue »
Vanessa Hudgens Talks About Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, starring Vanessa Hudgens, Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman, is a family adventure that is coming to theaters in February 10. This movie is a continuation of the 2008 worldwide sensation, Journey to the Center of the Earth. It first begins with Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) getting a radio signal to go to this mysterious island. Sean’s stepfather (Dwayne Johnson) decided to join his stepson after unable [...] Continue »
Is Luc Besson’s The Lady More About Love Than Politics?
There’s a new trailer out for Luc Besson’s latest film, The Lady, where Michelle Yeoh stars as political rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Judging from the first trailer, I assumed the film would be about her struggles in establishing democracy in Burma and the resulting house arrest. And why wouldn’t I? The 50 second teaser reveals a montage of militants putting up barbed wire and Yeoh climbing a stage to face cheering crowds amidst [...] Continue »
How To Be A Bad Asian: I Love Kung Fu
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. How To Be A Bad Asian is an ongoing series of personal essays by the 8Asians writers about what sets us apart from the API community, how we deal with the stereotypes that we put [...] Continue »
Spellbound Review: A Korean Rom-Com Horror
Spellbound casts its genre mixing dust across major cities in the US and Canada to create a magical web that entertains as it spooks. Street magician Jo-Gu (played by LEE Min-ki) gets inspired when he meets pale and ghastly Yu-ri (played by SON Ye-jin) to turn his act it into a horror illusion show. The show is a big hit selling successfully for over a year. Wanting to repay his gratitude to his inspiration, he [...] Continue »
Wong Fu Live in Monterey Park
By John “Johnny C” Chuidian One of the things anybody in New Media will say about this modern day entertainment industry equivalent of the Wild West–completely new, full of opportunities, and barely tapped to its complete potential–is that the people who define it best are its fans. For that very reason, on Friday, December 16th in Monterey Park’s AMC Atlantic Times Square 14 theater was where Wong Fu Productions held a special year end screening [...] Continue »
John Chu’s G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation Trailer Is Asian Enough
The first full trailer for John Chu’s kind of anticipated G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation flooded blogs and websites. The follow-up to the first million dollar installment worthy of B-movie acclaim, looks promising. It has lots of explosions, guns, Asian people doing stuff and a brand new cast of characters. Let’s go through some of the trailer’s highlights.
Jason Statham Protects Little Asian Girl In “Safe”
Jason Statham continues his sexy, raspy-voiced action anti-hero in Safe. Check out the trailer above. The movie has everything one needs for a high-octane action movie: Asian gangsters, Eastern European hooligans, guns, explosions, car chases, and of course, Jason Statham killing people with his bare hands.
8Questions with Claire Mix, Producer/Writer/Director of Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story
The first national organization to speak out against the illegal incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was the Quakers. The Quakers have a long standing commitment to progressive causes. Many don’t know this but they were one of the first groups to fight to abolish slavery and have advocated for women’s rights and later civil rights as well. (To see some of the causes they are currently fighting for, click here.) Although the [...] Continue »
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