By Jessica Kai Curry Northwest Asian Weekly The anticipation leading up to the release of Crazy Rich Asians, based on the popular novel by Kevin Kwan, has been intense. The movie will be the first in Hollywood history to feature an all-Asian cast, and therefore an all-Asian storyline. It has been lauded as the next […]
Dazzling, bedeviled daredevil Detective Dee
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Mark Chao, a native of Taipei and graduate of British Columbia’s University of Victoria, has played the semi-fictional, semi-historical Detective Dee before, to great effect. By his own admission, though, he was nervous about this latest film in the series from director Tsui Hark, “Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly […]
Skyscraper: The taller they are, the harder they fall
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Can you believe Dwayne Johnson has been the main lead or played a major role in five movies over the last 15 months? There is Fate of the Furious, Baywatch, Jumanji, Rampage, and now Skyscraper. Skyscraper is a collaboration between Universal and Legendary, which usually means the movie is […]
Bleeding Steel: Same Jackie, different planet”
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The Wednesday before the Fourth of July, one week before America traditionally celebrates its own birthday, proved a low point for our nation, and our planet to boot. The Supreme Court’s upholding of Donald Trump’s travel ban, combined with several other Supreme Court rulings favorable to the Big Orange, […]
“Mary and the Witch’s Flower”
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY As Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director and co-writer of “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” admits, the world might have been a bit different, had not the world-renowned Studio Ghibli stayed open. Studio Ghibli, famous for its lush, involved, kid-friendly anime features, shut down temporarily in 2014. And Yonebayashi, who directed “The […]
Inaugural Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Joyce Jeng, chief film festival organizer for the first-ever Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival, grew up watching Pixar features. She grew up in San Jose, Calif., and enjoyed picking out the references in Pixar films to the nearby town of Emeryville, which just happens to be Pixar’s hometown. But […]
Bao – The Pixar short that will smack Asians right in the feels
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Did you know there is a short film before Incredibles 2? Historically, Pixar has always used its feature films to showcase new technology and stories. The latest short film, Bao, has been on my radar for months because of its Chinese Canadian creator. Needless to say, Incredibles 2 is […]
Ocean’s 8: Even with all the glitz and glamor and beautiful clothes, it’s still a little boring
By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly How do you earn $150 million in one night? Gather your best, most talented, and most diverse group of gal pals together and steal a diamond necklace, duh. “Ocean’s 8” is a continuation or spin-off of the Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” franchise. This latest installment centers around Debbie Ocean (Sandra […]
Deadpool 2 – Fun for the whole family. — Just kidding. Find a babysitter for the kids!
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Deadpool was the movie sensation that carved a niche for every superhero fan who was old enough to watch it. There were so many Easter Eggs, ranging from comic book references to numerous Ryan Reynold ones, that kept the audience laughing the whole movie. I was worried Deadpool 2 […]
What’s showing at SIFF
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “Ava” Sadaf Foroughi spends some of her time in Canada, but she’s Iranian by birth and brings a fresh, winning perspective to the problems of women in Iranian society. Her new film (and first feature) follows a band of adolescent schoolgirls doing, for the most part, things adolescent schoolgirls […]
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