Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Randall Park’s Shortcomings Randall Park makes his directorial debut with Shortcomings, a non-rom-com centered on the kind of misanthropic twenty-something that could have been played by Ethan Hawke in the 1990s, but is now played by Justin H. Min (After Yang’s Yang). Adrian Tomine adapts his graphic novel of the same name, By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews WandaVision brings out the weird in Marvel WandaVision, Marvel Studio’s first foray into television—the Netflix shows don’t count, as they were produced by Marvel Entertainment—gives us our first taste of the MCU in over a year. And a weird taste it is, as we find Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen, FINALLY given something to By Sarah • Jan 18, 2021 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Deadline reported yesterday that Daniel Dae-Kim and Randall Park will co-star and co-produce a heist film featuring an Asian-American cast and that the project has been acquired by Amazon after a bidding war. Obviously I love everything about this, including how Young Il Kim, who wrote the screenplay, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Deadline reported yesterday that Daniel Dae-Kim and Randall Park will co-star and co-produce a heist film featuring an Asian-American cast and that the project has been acquired by Amazon after a bidding war. Obviously I love everything about this, including how Young Il Kim, who wrote the screenplay, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Deadline reported yesterday that Daniel Dae-Kim and Randall Park will co-star and co-produce a heist film featuring an Asian-American cast and that the project has been acquired by Amazon after a bidding war. Obviously I love everything about this, including how Young Il Kim, who wrote the screenplay, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ali, Randall, and Keanu! Keanu Reeves is currently king of the box office as John Wick 3 took down Avengers: Endgame last weekend with a $57 million opening take supported by strong reviews – Sarah loved it and called it the best of the franchise so far. Which is an achievement. How often is the By Lainey • May 23, 2019 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Other Guy Keanu again Ali Wong’s rom-com, Always Be My Maybe, is a clear titular riff off Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” (and it is Mimi-approved), and the trailer is cut with the song, so prepare to have the “do-do-doop” part in your head for the next month. The trailer for By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 03:43 pm
Randall Park Asians in love: trend alert? It takes three to make a trend, right? So we’re getting there. Here are Ali Wong and Randall Park in Vancouver yesterday shooting Always Be My Maybe. I mean, if there ever was a title for a rom-com... They play two people, childhood sweethearts, who have a huge fight, By Lainey • Jun 13, 2018 03:39 pm
Critics' Choice Awards 2016 Intro for January 18, 2016 Dear Gossips, I thought I was dreaming partway through the Critics’ Choice Awards last night because…there on stage… two Asians were presenting together. It was Constance Wu and Randall Park from Fresh Off The Boat. When’s the last time you saw that happen? Constance was also nominated for By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 07:31 am