Posts Tagged ‘Kelly Marie Tran’
Film Review – Forge
Writer/director Jing Ai Ng’s Forge (2025) presents a world on three different fronts. The first features the backdrop of Miami, with its sparkling blue waters, beautiful beaches, neon-tinged lights of the city, the hum of nightclubs and restaurants, and the sense that anything can happen at any time.…
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Film Review – The Wedding Banquet
On paper, The Wedding Banquet (2025) has all the makings of a classic screwball comedy. You have characters engaged in a silly plot that involves deception, hijinks, and plenty of awkward situations. Things get progressively more complicated, even if it could all be resolved if everyone were…
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Episode 65 – Raya and the Last Dragon
For this podcast episode, we review Disney‘s new animated fantasy epic, Raya and the Last Dragon, and for our streaming homework, we discuss Paul W.S. Anderson‘s 1994 debut, Shopping, starring Jude Law. We also go over this year’s Oscar nominations and Keith tells us all…
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Film Review – Raya and the Last Dragon
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) is a superb animated fantasy adventure. Borrowing elements from a number of Southeast Asian cultures, the story brims with color, life, and imagination. There is a sense of wonder and discovery within each location, as though every detail has a…
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Film Review – Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
I resisted watching the new Star Wars movies for a long time because I am a grumpy middle-aged lady who really doesn’t care about this particular intellectual property. I don’t hate the original trilogy, but the prequels kind of sucked. Not because of their dumbass…
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Film Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ever since A New Hope was released in 1977, every Star Wars film followed the same basic formula: operatic space battles between good and evil, with a central character being pulled in both directions, whose final choice could decide the fate of all. From the…
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