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Will Iron Man 3 Will Be Filmed in China and Cast Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin?
It’s hard to fathom that in the mid-90s Marvel was declaring bankruptcy, but look at the comic company now: an entertainment jaggernaut that cranks out box office smashes. And there’s no reason why they should stop at domestic success, as the newest sequel to the Iron Man franchise will be co-produced to a Chinese production company as a way to co-finance and distribute the film. According to an article from the LA Times, Foreign films [...] Continue »
Did Bruce Lee Have An Undescended Testicle?
Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I LOVE Bruce Lee. When I was a kid he made me feel like Asian American boys could be more than the awkward guy lusting after the girl (which was pretty much the only representation of Asian American men on television/film at the time). For once, the badass kinda looked like me. But when one of the 8Asians editors brought to my attention that Bruce [...] Continue »
“Merantau” Indonesian Martial Arts Movie Review
In Merantau, Yuda (Iko Uwais), a young man from rural Indonesia trained in the martial art of silat harimau, heads off on a coming-of-age journey called a merantau. On his journey, he aims to go to the urban center of Jakarta and teach silat. After meeting orphans Adit (Yusuf Aulia) and Astri (Sisca Jessica), his path tangles inextricably with that of an underground slave trade ring, and his merantau quickly turns ugly. When watching martial [...] Continue »
Why are Asian American Films Bad?
Before I even wrote the April’s Fools article Joy Luck Ranked Greatest Asian American Film Of All Time, I have contemplated for the longest time creating a list for the Top 10 Worst Asian American films of all time. There’s always lists of the good Asian American films but no such thing as a bad one. The reasons for this is actually pretty obvious: One, the mainstream hardly knows any Asian American films. Two, most [...] Continue »
RSVP For The Bay Area Screening Of ‘Detention’ With Joseph Kahn Q&A
Attention San Francisco Bay Area! There will be a FREE advanced screening of Detention on Thursday, April 13! As an added bonus, director Joseph Kahn will be there immediately after the screening for a Q&A moderated by yours truly! (That would be me, Dino-Ray Ramos). That said, if you’re in the Bay Area and you want to see actor Josh Hutcherson out of his Hunger Games element and then watch me awkwardly giggle my way [...] Continue »
Having An Asian Moment: John Cho In The Total Recall Trailer
I liked the 1990 movie adaptation of Total Recall (which, by the way, is based on the story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick). I wasn’t a HUGE fan, but I liked it because it was super cool and sci-fi — the elements that make fanboys squeal. It was during Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hey day so there were MANY films in his action star repertoire that competed to be number one [...] Continue »
Jamie Chung Talks About Her Game-Changing Role in ‘Eden’
The movie Eden made its world premiere at this year’s South by Southwest and it immediately made waves among the SXSW crowd. The movie snagged the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and director Megan Griffiths received the SXSW Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award. (I mentioned all this already, but it’s worth a repeat post.) In addition, Jamie Chung was praised with Special Jury Recognition for her performance as Hyun Jae (who is [...] Continue »
Joy Luck Club Ranked Greatest Asian American Film Of All Time
On March 31st after a conference on ranking the top 15 Asian American films, entertainment industry folks have declared that Wayne Wang’s Joy Luck Club, based on Amy Tan’s masterpiece novel, is the greatest Asian American film of all time (Breakfast at Tiffany’s came in second place). Surprisingly, most of the positive votes came from Asian American industry folks themselves, unbeknownst to the enraged APA community as a whole. When asked why this controversial film [...] Continue »
Sung Kang Talks ‘Sunset Stories’, Being an Asian American Actor and His Love of Comedy
In Sunset Stories, Sung Kang plays JP, a man who is unexpectedly reunited with his ex-girlfriend (Monique Curnen) who is now a nurse that just lost a cooler full of bone marrow that she was supposed deliver for a transplant. She has 24 hours to retrieve this lost marrow and JP, being the nice guy that he is, helps her find it. During their hunt through the streets of Los Angeles, they go through some [...] Continue »
Having An Asian Moment: The Movie “Single Asian Female”
Among all the Asian-centric films I saw at SXSW this year, Single Asian Female was probably the most disturbing…and in a weird, creepy way, it was one of the most heartfelt. Directed by San Francisco-based filmmaker Debbie Lum, the documentary puts “yellow fever” under the microscope, following a quirky white man named Steven and his search for an Asian wife. The thing is — Steven has had a thing for Asian women ever since his [...] Continue »
Battle Royale, Distant Cousin of The Hunger Games, Released on DVD
Before Dino-Ray lamented on the casting of an Asian in The Hunger Games – a movie about a dystopian society that forces a group of teenagers to kill each other to the death for entertainment and sport – there was Battle Royale, a Japanese movie about a dystopian society that forces a group of teenagers to kill each other to the death for entertainment and sport. The differences are, of course, is that Battle Royale [...] Continue »
Mr. Cao Goes to Washington Documentary Review
During the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, I had the opportunity to see the premiere of the documentary Mr. Cao Goes to Washington, a film about the first Vietnamese American ever to be elected to Congress and his bid for re-election in 2010. The film was produced and directed by S. Leo Chiang,who also produced the documentary, A Village Called Versailles.
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