Posted in Actors, Entertainment, Filipino, Film, Movies, Opinion, Pop Culture, Reviews, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva, Video, Work, Writing on Mar 19th, 2008
Glory Boy Days is a representation of twentysomethings of the 21st century. Directed by Paul Encinas, the movie follows a clan of troublemaking Gen Y’ers (or are they Z’ers? or maybe they are considered the blogging generation…whatever) over the course of 24 hours as they party, complain, makeout, drink, do drugs, bicker and all those [...]
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Posted in Asian American, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Reviews, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva, Work, Writing on Mar 19th, 2008
Jimmy Tsai (left) as Christopher “C-Dub” Wang and Andrew Vo as Felix
Balls of Fury, Schmalls of Fury, if you see only one ping pong comedy in your entire life, then watch Ping Pong Playa – a story about video game couch potato b-ball jersey clad Christopher “C-Dub” Wang (Jimmy Tsai) and his attempt to carry [...]
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Posted in Actors, Asian American, Celebrities, Entertainment, Filipino, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Reviews, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva, Work on Mar 19th, 2008
If you’re looking for a happy-go-lucky, lift your spirits type of movie then Santa Mesa is for you! Wait a second, no it isn’t. It’s honestly kind of depressing – but don’t let that dissuade you. Sometimes we need a good cry to make us smile.
The story focuses on Hector (Jacob Shalov). His mother [...]
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Posted in Actors, Asian American, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, John Cho, Movies, Opinion, Pop Culture, Random, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva on Mar 18th, 2008
Is it me, or have I been blogging A LOT about John Cho lately? I think I have been.
For the record, I admire his work, but I am in no way an obsessive fan. I just want to be best friends with him. Forever.
Okay. That was a total joke.
It just so happens that he [...]
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Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, John Cho, Kal Penn, Movies, Opinion, Pop Culture, Reviews, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva on Mar 17th, 2008
Neil Patrick Harris, (from left) Kal Penn and John Cho reprise their roles in this Harold and Kumar follow-up
Three words: An emo Harold. Three more words: Neil Patrick Harris. Three more words: Explosive bowel movements. Three more words: Enjoyably unnecessary vulgarities. Two more words: Glowing unicorns. I could do this all day.
Most of that will [...]
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Posted in Actors, Asian American, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, John Cho, Movies, Pop Culture, Reviews, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva on Mar 16th, 2008
John Cho (2nd from left) and Jun Sung Kim (3rd from left) in West 32nd
There’s murder! There’s mystery! There’s lawyers! There’s betrayal! All of this and more encompass the noir-esque indie drama, West 32nd – but don’t be fooled by the exclamation points, the movie is quiet with moral despair and yes, it will have [...]
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Posted in Actors, Asian American, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, John Cho, Movies, Pop Culture, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva, Work on Mar 16th, 2008
Yesterday after the Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay screening, actor John Cho was nice enough to do a Q&A with the audience. I felt special because I already interviewed him one-on-one a while back along with Harold & Kumar creators, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (click here to refresh your memory).
Wasn’t that really [...]
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Posted in Actors, Asian American, Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festiva, Work, Writing on Mar 16th, 2008
PHOTO CREDIT: Philip Koller/GOOD PRAYERS LLC
For the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival’s (that is a mouthful) opening night, I made my way to the Castro Theatre where I was greeted with a long line of people anticipating opening night screening of San Francisco native, Wayne Wang’s film, A Thousand Years of Good [...]
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I am a fan of film. I also happen to be Asian American. That said, to support my brethren and some great motion pictures, I am going to do some postings on the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (which lasts until March 23).
So the next couple of days, I will post a couple [...]
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