Rating: 5/5 Over the past few years, increasing awareness about diversity and Asian representation in films gave rise to box office hits centered around Asian American stories. “Minari,” a film about a Korean-American family that moves from California to Arkansas to start a farm and chase the American Dream, returnsContinue Reading
Rating: 1.5/5. Studio Ghibli’s first film in four years, “Earwig and the Witch,” was released on Feb. 9, 2021 on HBO Max for streaming. The film is the studio’s first to be fully animated in 3D, and was directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of acclaimed Japanese animated film directorContinue Reading
Rating: 3.5/5 “Coming to America 2” was released on March 5, 2021 to Amazon Prime Video subscribers, more than 30 years after its predecessor. The original “Coming to America” was a cultural reset, a film that stood true against the test of time and was able to be enjoyed throughContinue Reading
Rating: 4/5 The new HBO documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” was released on Feb. 9, 2021 and is available to stream on HBO Max. The film is centered around the 1976 exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art” and explores the depth of Black art through multipleContinue Reading
Disney’s “Soul,” which released on the Disney+ streaming platform on Dec. 25, is the latest film from Pixar. Similar to Disney’s “Inside Out,” which personified emotions as brightly colored sprites controlling our actions through a control room in our minds, “Soul” depicts how our personalities are created in a summerContinue Reading
Rating: 3/5 The popular film “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D” enchanted millions of children in the early 2000s. The movie “We Can Be Heroes,” a Netflix Original released on Dec. 25, borrows characters and themes from the original film. This children’s film tells about the children ofContinue Reading
Rating: 5/5 The film “If Anything Happens I Love You” was released on Nov. 20, 2020 on Netflix, depicting two grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their daughter from a school shooting. The animated film has no dialogue, but spoken words were not needed to capture viewers’Continue Reading
By Vania Castro Rating: 4/5 “Monsoon” is a thought-provoking film that captures the common experiences many Asian-American immigrants have with cultural confusion. It tells a story of separation between the culture of the place one resides in and the culture of one’s place of birth. The movie stars Henry GoldingContinue Reading
By Catherine Fung Rating: 3.5/5 “Light Up The Sky,” a Netflix documentary released on Oct. 14, 2020, showcases the Korean pop sensation Blackpink’s journey from their debut to the release of their recent album. The documentary follows each member’s unique background and shows how the girls’ cultural differences perfectly synchronizeContinue Reading
By Mehak Garg “There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’: illegal drugs and software,” Edward Tufte, a statistician and computer science professor at Yale University, said. The idea that social media can be addictive isn’t novel to the millions of users on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,Continue Reading
By Kathleen Huynh Something old, something new, and sadly, no Mushu. Premier access to “Mulan” (2020) became available on Disney+ for $29.99 on September 4, 2020. The film will be free to Disney+ subscribers in December. The live-action remake was highly anticipated after multiple release date postponements. The eradication ofContinue Reading
By: Sarah Khan “Little Women,” a coming- of-age period drama directed by Greta Gerwig, was released in theaters on Dec. 25. The film is an adaptation of the classic novel by Louis May Alcott, and it stars Saoirse Ronan as Jo March, Emma Watson as Meg March, Timothée Chalamet asContinue Reading