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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Who Is The Asian Woman Sitting Courtside At Lakers Home Games?
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Internet Page Reveals How to Talk Dirty in Tagalog
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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San Francisco International Film Festival Premiere of ‘Isle Child’: Review and post-screening Q&A
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Category Archives: Movies
Watch This Now: ‘Spiritless,’ A Short Film on a British Born Chinese Teen’s Sexuality
Take 15 minutes to check out this short film dealing with a British-born Chinese teenager struggling with his sexuality. Says Kenneth Gawne of Dragonreel Films: We feel Asians are grossly under represented in main stream media, especially in the UK … Continue reading
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Watch the New Webseries ‘Unusual Targets’
As a filmmaker and as a blogger here on 8Asians, I get hit up to write about everyone and their mother’s webseries. While I’ve seen a lot of good ones (don’t worry, yours was great!), I mostly see a lot of … Continue reading
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Brief Review of ‘To Be Takei’ & DVD Released
One weekend evening when I was home, I remembered I wanted to see and wound up watching To Be Takei via Comcast On Demand and thoroughly enjoyed the film. After viewing the documentary, I thought about what a remarkable life … Continue reading
Sumi Sevilla Haru, First and Only Woman of Color to Serve as SAG Interim President, Dies at 75
Last year, I had the honor of conducting a number of interviews of notable figures for a documentary celebrating East West Players’ 50th anniversary. One of the interviewees was Sumi Sevilla Haru, who came with a copy of her book, … Continue reading
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Film Review: ‘A Picture of You’
A Picture of You (2014) Jo Mei, Andrew Pang, Teyonah Parris, Lucas Dixon, Jodi Long. Directed by J.P. Chan. Written by J.P. Chan and Jo Mei. Kyle and Jen have just lost their mother, and now they are in her … Continue reading
8$: Boston Asian American Film Festival
8$ is a series which occasionally highlights interesting crowdfunding projects. Every day, the 8Asians team is inundated by many worthy pitches. We are unable to highlight every one that comes our way, or even the ones we might individually support. … Continue reading
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Anime Review: Space Pirate Captain Harlock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCea94LRtPY This one is a movie remake of an old Anime series. The story is pretty interesting, set in a time when humanity has colonized most of the galaxy, but with resources drained, the species is in decline. Many look … Continue reading
Awesome Photoshop Trend: Hello Kitty-fying Superheroes
We already know that Hello Kitty is not a cat, that Hello Kitty is also for men, that you can get pretty much anything you want emblazoned with Hello Kitty on it, and that if you need to get away … Continue reading
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Film Review: ‘Don’t Know Yet’ (2013)
Don’t Know Yet (2013) Starring: James Kyson, Lisa Goldstein Kirsch. Written and directed by James Linehan. A guy in a car pulls over where a hitchhiker is standing on the roadside. “Where are you going?” asks the hitchhiker. “Uh, where … Continue reading
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Anime Review: Appleseed XIII
I actually was trying to get my hands on the new Appleseed Alpha movie, which looks amazing, but I accidentally bought this. I thought it wasn’t a big deal, since I really enjoy the Appleseed franchise, so I started to … Continue reading
Bay Area Giveaway: Tickets to ‘A Letter to Momo’
EDITORS NOTE: See Mitchell’s 8Asians review of ‘A Letter to Momo’ GKIDS presents A Letter to Momo, opening September 5, 2014 at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinemas in San Francisco, and Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley. It will be presented in … Continue reading
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Film Review: ‘A Letter to Momo’ (2011)
A Letter to Momo (Momo e no Tegami) (2011) Japanese subtitled version: Karen Miyama, Yuka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Koichi Yamadera. English dubbed version: Amanda Pace, Stephanie Sheh, Fred Tatasciore, Dana Snyder. Directed and written by Hiroyuki Okiura. Twelve-year-old Momo has recently … Continue reading