Yi Yi

Advertisements Yi Yi , or 一一, means “one by one” in Chinese. In writer/director Edward Yang’s 2000 slice-of-life drama, the story follows the Jiangs and their extended family. After one day, the matriarch of the family had mysteriously fallen unconscious, and the…

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Crazy Rich Asians

Advertisements Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is a self-made woman born to a poor single-parent family. Through hard work, she became an economics professor at NYU and one of the youngest faculty of the university. One day, after the end of a lecture,…

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Steven Universe: Season Five

Advertisements This review contains spoilers for Steven Universe season 5 (and prior seasons). Please proceed with caution.   Steven Universe is one of my favorite shows of all time. Whenever I try to get my friends to watch it, I bill it as…

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Airplane!

Advertisements “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” was a line I’ve seen quoted a million times on the internet (along with many other jokes), but I have never seen this movie. It is high time I change that. War veteran…

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Phantom Thread

Advertisements There are several things I do not like about the movie viewing experience in Taiwan, and chief among them is the erratic release schedule for films that aren’t blockbusters. The award nominees usually get picked up by local distributors during (or…

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Advertisements Honestly, I can’t think of what would fit Wes Anderson’s aesthetic better than a stop-motion movie featuring talking anthropomorphic animals adapted from a British children’s book from the 70s. Fantastic Mr. Fox delivered the complete package of Anderson sensibilities. The titular…

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Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs. I love dogs. Wes Anderson’s second stop-motion feature is a celebration of human and canine friendship.…

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The Square

“The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations”…

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