tv & film
tv & film
Has Tarantino's New Movie Damaged Bruce Lee's Legacy?
Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon had to call out Tarantino for portraying her father as an "arrogant a**hole".
White Pearl Review
The play is set in Singapore at the glossy headquarters of Clearday, a fast-growing cosmetic start-up. It follows the panic after the leak of a racist advertisement for their skin-whitening cream called White Pearl. The product is fictional but as many readers will know, whitening products are very very real.
Coexistence: A Second Gen’s Thoughts on Asian Representation in Hollywood
The first time I learned of Mulan was not, in fact, from the Disney blockbuster Mulan; instead, it was from a picture book titled Hua Mulan that I found one day in my elementary school library at the young, impressionable age of 7. It was tucked away in the multilingual section, among other picture books written in English and another language.
“Always Be My Maybe” Leaves Me Wanting More
This review contains spoilers for the new Netflix original “Always Be My Maybe.” When I, a Filipino-American romantic comedy aficionado, heard about “Always Be My Maybe,” I was ecstatic.
What Billie and Emma Does Not Say
Billie & Emma (2018) is a Filipino indie film directed by Samantha Lee. It is a mushy love story of two high schoolers in the mid-90s. Billie is what we would call a “tomboy” back then, while Emma is the quintessential model student. The unlikely pair are brought together by a school project many Catholic-schooled kids are familiar with—the egg baby project.
Mulan: An Existential Crisis
Mulan, a 1998 Disney animation film, is a coming-of-age story of a Chinese girl named Fa Mulan. Set during Han Dynasty China, girls in the movie are deemed as subordinate to males, their sole duty in life set to please their husbands and families by marrying at a young age and perform household chores with prestige.