I’m not familiar with Mike Leigh or the film and I just watched the trailer which doesn’t seem great, but I’m aware it’s got something like 93% on Rotten Tomatoes Hawkins did win a Golden Globe.

I only read (well listened to the audiobook) of the first book and a quarter and I thought they were sort of garbage and poorly plotted, but nevertheless I’m looking forward to the film. The central premise however is that there’s a Chinese-American professor who discovers her boyfriend is secretly an heir to an…

Yeah, it felt a little personal since I spent the day reading a bunch of articles about whitewashing, data disaggregation, and a bunch of other things blaming implicitly anyone of Asian or Chinese descent as a monolith.

There are a billion Chinese people and the festival that people keep citing seems to happen in just one city and apparently the number of dead dogs has drastically decreased over time since other Chinese people find it distasteful too. Claiming it’s a Chinese thing is like extrapolating what goes down in DC across…

There are a billion Chinese people and the festival that people keep citing seems to happen in just one city. Claiming it’s a Chinese thing is like extrapolating what goes down in DC across all Americans and/or white people as a whole. (That was the closest metropolitan area in size that isn’t currently recovering…

*Some* Chinese people eat dog meat. (And a bunch of major celebrities there condemn it and have been pushing for legislation against it, much like the one that already exists in Taiwan.) Why should a billion people feel inherent shame for their nationality based on the actions of a niche group when as Americans we can…

I have a knee-jerk dislike of Josh Gad even if he’s perfectly adequate or even improv’d some lines I really enjoyed. (I do feel like his gay text in Beauty and the Beast was a little overplayed and underwhelming payoff, but I know it was probably the accidental media blitz that heightened my expectations.) And Rebel…

I feel like you could actually somewhat tamp it down by giving the illusion there are consequences to things that people do and say. By linking the troll internet presences to actual faces and names (game streamers) then castigating them might actually get across that they shouldn’t publicly denigrate people to their…

Wasn’t Chiang Kai-shek born on the mainland? I mean yeah he is essentially the most ROC there is, but it seems like any mainland actor taking on the role is essentially throwing his lot in with Taiwan since I figured he’d be blacklisted in PROC (unless they’ve remotely eased off in the last decade on pop culture…

I had no idea there were other shows on Starz aside from American Gods (and maybe Outlander?).

He’s long been associated with any number of surprisingly geeky properties that fell apart.

I find that one kind of interesting in so much as it somehow psychologically scarred both of them, rather than just one or the other.

Old Wu xia movies used to have villains with prehensile hair, i’m a little surprised they stuck to CGI rather than wig puppets.

While there’s something sort of empty about all these live action versions of (often) beloved Disney animated films and how little they actually expand some of them, I do sort of appreciate the fact they consider these stories featuring non-white protagonists fiscally worth it too.

I know it’s technically illegal for casting directors to pry too much into people’s personal lives when it comes to orientation (which can make it somewhat difficult when it comes to trying to cast gay actors in gay roles) though I’m not clear if that applies to nationality or heritage.

I thought World was wildly uneven but I’m not sure why we’re so willing to assume that he was responsible for the worst components while we’re less willing to give him credit for the positives. (I thought the film did well with the theme park components but made awful choices when it came to any of the humans? I…

I sort of feel like Homecoming was the only film that hits all three of those and it was actually better accomplished than so many others. It was also that three week period where everything I did actually want to get around to seeing did come out and I needed to space them out more according to when they were at my…

This makes me wonder about the original plans for Marvel, where they wanted to start production on a Runaways movie sometime before Avengers wrapped but they eventually just killed the project shortly after they promised they were going to actually cast an Asian girl as Nico. The original casting sides originally…

I had such a begrudging attitude towards the white woman in the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror since she was legitimately fantastic but I was pretty frustrated they got some white lady to have essentially nothing to do in The Martian as Mindy Park, when that could have been a Korean(-Am) woman. (I care about at…

I also admire the fact that Huisman looks so much prettier in general, granted part of it is the hair thing. I did only catch about a season of GoT with him in the role and I couldn’t objectively think about it since I was also more bummed out that Huisman’s involvement meant he needed to be written out of Orphan…