Three stone deities stand watch over the entrance of the Asian Garden Mall, in Orange County’s Little Saigon. The mall is a cultural hub for Southern California’s enormous Vietnamese population. Old men sit nearby, smoking and talking heatedly over newspapers—actual newspapers—beneath a waving South Vietnamese flag. A steady stream of visitors approach to take photos […]
Five years after his feature debut “All This Victory” took the Grand Prize and the audience award at Venice’s Critics’ Week, Lebanese filmmaker Ahmad Ghossein is gearing up to shoot his next film. The filmmaker’s sophomore effort, “The Side Effects of Trusting Life,” was selected as part of this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Agora Crossroads […]
The prize catch of the title isn’t exactly who you might expect in “A Nice Indian Boy,” a romantic comedy that brings a welcome queer angle to that substantial subgenre of love stories tangled up in Indian social mores and cross-generational family politics. In many such films, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the most desirable […]
Comedy has become a way for women to skewer China’s gender inequality. Some men aren’t happy about it.
Just when we thought Hollywood was running out of fresh ideas, Issa Rae reentered the chat, stepping in with her latest comedic gem, One Of Them Days. Starring Keke Palmer and SZA, this unlikely pairing had fans buzzing since the news broke in April 2024. While One Of Them Days marks SZA’s feature film debut, […]
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On Friday morning, Trump’s campaign emailed reporters a recap of his speech, declaring that it was a “knockout roast” that was a “master class in humor, delivery, and tact.” “Donald Trump struggled to read scripted notes written by his handlers, repeatedly complaining that he couldn’t use a teleprompter,” Ammar Moussa, the Harris campaign’s rapid response […]
If you’re a circumspect first-time TV creator given vaguely free rein, you have two choices (for the purposes of this exercise). One, you can render your vision in the most easily digestible way possible, to make a series that is clearly promotable and satisfyingly resolved, in the hopes of engineering a hit and getting to […]
Even as the conflict with Russia grinds on, a new generation of comics in Ukraine is trying to make people laugh — and raise money for the war effort.
Actor and comedian Jana Bernard, who’s appeared on NETFLIX and Peacock, organized and hosted a … [+] comedy show on October 6 at The Second City New York that featured a line-up of stand-up comics, Proceeds from the show went to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. (Photo: Mickey Farrow) Mickey Farrow Actor and comedian Jana […]
