While the “Crazy Rich Asians” fever pitch was happening last summer, I was very withholding in my appreciation, very careful and moderated. I like to think it was because a part of me intuited that nearly a year later, we would be watching Constance Wu try to torch the show that first gave her a shot at mainstream success. Ha!
PICTORIAL: CISC’s 47th Annual Friendship
CISC brought together 300 community leaders at its 47th annual Friendship Dinner & Auction on May 18.
Filipino star Jake Macapagal pirouettes into our fair city
Memorizing a 68-page monologue might sound like an impossible mountain to climb. But for Filipino film star Jake Macapagal, that was all in a day’s work.
Sharon Lee and LIHI at the forefront of solutions to homelessness
One might say that the life and career of Sharon Lee, founding executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), has been a crusade against homelessness.
“Long Time No Sea”
Director Heather Tsui’s debut film “Long Time No Sea” dives into the microcosm of a young Tao boy, Manawei (Chung Chia-chun), and his simple, yet impoverished life as he is raised by his grandmother on Orchid Island.
Movie starring Pikachu is just a hokey Pokemon
It’s got an adorable hero from an iconic media brand who is voiced by a proven box office master at snark. But, somehow, “Pokemon Detective Pikachu’’ never really gets arresting.
A different whole new world
Director Guy Ritchie has been getting criticized since everyone got a glimpse of the CGI Will Smith as a blue genie.
What does Asian American Pacific Heritage Month mean to you?
“I think of myself as a human first, rather than as an Asian American.” The 15-year-old helps his parents at their Chinese tea shop in the International District. He was born in Seattle and is a second generation Chinese American.
“The Sun Is Also a Star” has likeable stars and tackles immigration — but is also so boring omg
“The Sun Is Also a Star” is the film adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s 2016 young adult novel of the same name, about two young strangers who fall in love in the course of a day — the hitch being that one of them is set to be deported at the end of the day.
Mark Dacascos: Discipline and determination does dazzling
Very few folks grow up with not one, but two martial arts experts for parents. But for Mark Dacascos, who excels on the workout floor, as well as on the silver screen, that was all simply part of growing up.
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