Bowen Yang

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The Wedding Banquet

Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn follows up his streamer sleeper hit with The Wedding Banquet, a contemporary remake of Ang Lee’s 90s rom-com of the same name. While I can’t comment on how faithful this adaptation is to its source material, outsiders (like myself) will enjoy Ahn’s genre-clashing family dramedy. Much of The Wedding Banquet can be perceived as a farce – misunderstandings and personality swaps build up to a grand charade where the masqueraders will benefit…

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The Monkey King

The universe has sent me a remedy after slugging through last week’s Toopy and Binoo The Movie.  That medicine is Netflix’s The Monkey King, an action-packed fantasy that’s inspired by Chinese literature and works as a tribute to the comic humour of Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Journey to the West).  Chow serves as an executive producer on The Monkey King – the production must’ve been tickled pink.