Monday, December 29

Sundance 2021: Filmed through Zoom and phone calls, ‘These Days’ explores isolation of pandemic

“These Days” everyone needs some humor and catharsis. Filmed in May, writer-director Adam Brooks’ episodic short premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival. The story is set during the height of quarantine and focuses on Mae (Marianne Rendón), who is struggling with isolation while trying to foster a relationship with Will (William Jackson Harper) via a dating app. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Sundance)


Sundance 2021 Q&A: Director Debbie Lum talks film following college application process

Audiences must “Try Harder!” to change the culture and pressure surrounding college admissions. Directed by Debbie Lum, the film follows the lives of five teenagers enrolled in Lowell High School, an elite college preparatory school in San Francisco with a majority Asian American student body. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | Photo by Kathy Huang)




‘WandaVision’ season 1 recap – episode 4

Warning: spoilers ahead. Marvel fans aren’t the only ones obsessively speculating about “WandaVision” – the show’s characters have whiteboards chock full of theories as well. Episode four retraces the story of Geraldine (Teyonah Parris), Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany)’s supposed neighbor who is revealed to be Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) – an agent of the intelligence agency S.W.O.R.D. Read more...

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‘Cobra Kai’ sparks conversation about Asian American representation in media

“Cobra Kai” shows no mercy when it comes to streaming numbers, but a conversation on the show’s cultural influence strikes hard amid such success. Continuing the story of “The Karate Kid” films more than 20 years later, “Cobra Kai” finds Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) resurrecting their respective karate dojos and getting just about everyone in their lives entrenched in their morally gray rivalry. Read more...

Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)



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