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The White Man Saves the Day Again?
Clint Eastwood in ‘Gran Torino’ Hollywood has a tradition of producing films where the heroic Caucasian protagonist saves the helpless people of color. Think Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves or Tom...
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All Blood and No Bite
Blood: The Last Vampire Is it just me or has the recent trend for all things vampire left you feeling like the genre has – and pardon the bad pun – lost its bite? Whether on TV in True Blood or on the...
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A “Thirst” That Satisfies
I’ve said it before in the pages of Asian Week and I’ll say it again-Korean director Park Chan-Wook may be the most interesting filmmaker working in the world today. If Thirst, his latest effort,...
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Daytime Drinking: Entertaining and Unpredictable
(photo courtesy of DaytimeDrinking.com) There may not be another country where drinking is as much a part of the culture as it is in South Korea. Three billion bottles of soju, a vodka-like distilled...
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Bụi Đời (Dust of Life): A Moving Portrait of Multifaceted Asian American...
By Lee Ngo Bụi Đời (Dust of Life) - R – Le Van Kiet, dir. Le Van Kiet’s first feature-length film is a tour-de-force that thousands within the diasporic ethnic Vietnamese communities around the globe...
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‘Beginnings and Endings’ for Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
by Philip W. Chung Writing is always hard. Even under the best of circumstances, it’s hard. If anyone tells you differently, they are either lying, soulless or just a bad writer. So it was with some...
View ArticleFood – Vancouver Film School Canadasian Short
Speaking of why Asians can’t get more Oscars, these folks are working to change that. Vancouver Film School mostly put out cute computer animated shorts, and many if not most feature budding Asian...
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‘In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee’ Premieres Tonight on PBS’s POV Series
SAN FRANCISCO — Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee, even though the eight-year-old girl knew that she was not. Yet, over the course of forty years Deann Borshay Liem came to forget that day she...
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Medicare’s “Extra Help” Program Helps Those With Limited Income Pay For...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Making ends meet should not mean going without your medications. If you have limited income and resources, Medicare’s “Extra Help” program sets it up so this year you pay no more...
View ArticleSouth Park’s China Probrem / Pixar Still Spurns Asians
[hu1stblog] South Park’s China Probrem (accent get it? probLem??) When it comes to racial humour, my rule is that it had better be pretty damn funny, and South Park is usually pretty damn funny. I...
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