Quite possibly the kerfufflest in Los Angeles County, which would place it high in the running for kerfufflest world wide

It’s the first line in Manohla Dargis’ NYT review:

After that aside on Asians’ love of tests, I figured the reviewer was just doing the movie a solid so that its tiger mom wouldn’t get all up on its case.

Yes, but is it War Horse good?

FWIW, it’s reversed in the UK, where ‘Asian’ as a generic term generally means Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi (which is over 70% of the Asian population) with the rest more often referred to as ‘East Asian.’ 

Singapore is fundamentally a multicultural society and even has 4 official languages, but yes, the upper class is a clique that is overwhelmingly Chinese.
Still, it wouldn’t have been at all hard to give Golding’s character a South Asian schoolfriend. A disproportionate amount of Singapore’s political and professional…

I saw one of those low-rise, flouncy, pleated miniskirts that Marissa Cooper always wore on The OC in real life out at a bar last weekend for the first time in over 15 years. Apparently they’re also coming back.

He also seems mad at Europe for being... fancy?

Correction: The diacritical mark above the e in Zoë is not actually an umlaut but a diaresis.

I agree, when Aggretsuko debuted in 2016 she was portrayed as a 25 year old, so was only 11 in 2002.
Making Meilin a 13 year old in 2002 is clearly one of those ‘Hedley-Lamarr-you-can-sue-her’-type gambits.

They don’t even taste like apples...

wtf is starz lol

This is perfect, but also what if Tomei gets to play Jules? I think that works too.

Probably because of all the implied bisexuality (boarding school, amirite?). Audiences just aren’t ready to see—or rather, not see but have subtly implied—that kind of story, yet.

Yeah, when you’re just mixing two movies up for your cover, that’s hardly evidence of anything ‘canon.’

Which was the style at the time.

You’ve heard the expression “let’s get busy”? Well this is a 4x who get’s B-Z! 

You can’t ban someone from the AV Club for a single bad pun, it should be a three-strike policy at minimum.

James Gunn went from Tromeo & Juliet and Scooby Doo to GotG and Suicide Squad. Lord & Miller went from Clone High and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs to a Star War and a Spider-Man.
I don’t think it’s entirely out of the realm of possibility, though Burton is unique, I suppose, in that he maintained a personal style…

I dunno, check out the big listicle of ranked villains: they’ve got Cameraman at #12 but Man With a Movie Camera way down after Joe Chill.