Chinatown Ghosts, originally published in 1986, is a collection of poems that Jim Wong-Chu wrote over a period of years. Some of them were later published in Ricepaper. I encountered …
Reviews
Walking into Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is to step into a phantasmagoria of the garishly cute, the disarmingly grotesque, and above all, the unflinchingly bizarre: vibrant, …
Film festivals like Toronto are sometimes like revolving doors. Each year their whirlwind oscillations allow just the big films with coin and clout to pass through, attracting instant publicity, esteem …
It’s Christmas time! With the holiday seasons comes some down time for reading and contemplation. Here’s my chance to share with you my reading list for the past few months. …
Ontario Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Japan / 2017 / Rated 14A / 127:00 / Japanese with English subtitles The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival opened with …
Toronto Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Canada / 2017 / Rated 14A / 85:00 / English, Korean with English subtitles Stand Up Man is a film with a story which will resonate with young …
Toronto Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Thailand / 2017 / Rated PG / 130:00 / Thai with English subtitles All Asian children understand the pressure and importance of education which is drilled into …
The Korean word ‘guk’ (or ‘gook’) means ‘country’, and it has been speculated that this was the origin of the titular slur of Justin Chon’s second feature. Early in the …
“The Soul of the Tiger” (L’âme du tigre) at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) 2017
The Chinese diaspora population is estimated at 50 million. That is not just one Australia. It is two. Spread across 110 countries, one of those nations is Switzerland. This brings …
A Korean-born man (John Cho) finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman (Haley Lu Richardson) who wants …