FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW (ABOUT PIZZA) or The Secrets of Soul Man, CPK and...
FADE IN INT. OFFICE — Continue reading →
View ArticleAround the Horn: Unions in the time of the dwindling middle class
The world is changing. I Continue reading →
View ArticleBehind the Scenes Photos from Classic Horror Films
The Taste of Cinema blog Continue reading →
View ArticleThe ‘Goonies’ are Good Enough but Not for a Sequel
The Goonies director Richard Donner Continue reading →
View ArticleBe a part of the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival Red Carpet Premiere of SEOUL...
SEOUL SEARCHING is having it’s Continue reading →
View ArticleInterview with Valerie Soe and her current doc project LOVE BOAT: TAIWAN
San Francisco State University Asian American Studies professor and filmmaker Valerie Soe just launched her Indiegogo campaign to help fund her latest project, LOVE BOAT: TAIWAN. Although she’s...
View ArticleVietnamese refugee reminisces on how Prince and David Bowie helped him find...
In today’s edition of PRI’s The World, contributor Sonny Le, a refugee who arrived in the States in the early ‘80s and now media consultant based in the Bay Area. Watching TV shows like American...
View ArticleTaekwondo Rockers vs Cocaine-dealing Ninjas: The True Story Behind Cult Hit...
Forty years ago, a homeless Korean immigrant named Y.K. Kim built an Orlando martial arts empire. In 1987, he recruited his devoted students to act as amateur cast and crew for his ill-fated action...
View ArticleJubilee hosts Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters TV Commercial
With X-MEN APOCALYPSE opening next week, it was inevitable that Fox has been ramping up all the promos leading up to it. Case-in-point, this 1980s faux commercial hawking Professor X’s School for...
View ArticleRemembering THE LAST DRAGON
If names like Bruce Leroy, Sho’nuff/Shogun of Harlem and the Glow are familiar to you, you’re most likely a fan of the 1985 cult classic THE LAST DRAGON. Like another 80s film we’ve recently given...
View ArticleCheck Out Malaysia’s Penang 1980s Style~~
Hey check out these awesome vintage photographs, via Vintag.es taken in Penang, Malaysia during the early 1980s. This is quite personal to me because Malaysia is also the country of my cultural...
View ArticleDid CONAN THE BARBARIAN spawn GAUNTLET?!
File this under “Things that make you go ‘hmmm…'” Back in the 80s, when arcade machines were still the rage, one of my favorite games was the simultaneous 4-player fantasy actioner known as GAUNTLET....
View ArticleSEOUL SEARCHING opens in NYC tomorrow and LA on June 24 and attend ‘80s Prom...
As you know, we are all big fans of Benson Lee’s ode to ‘80s teen comedies, SEOUL SEARCHING. The difference is, this is an ‘80s teen comedy with Asian American characters, unlike Long Duk Dong in...
View ArticleWhy GALAXY QUEST is the best non-Trek, Trek film
Film geeks like to congress and pontificate on many mundane, but yet wholly important issues when it comes to fandom. STAR TREK and STAR WARS are perhaps the duo pinnacles of sci-fi and space fantasy...
View ArticleThe Role of Filipino American DJs in Bay Area History
San Francisco-based reporter Veronica dela Cruz filed a story last week for CBS affiliate KPIX on Daly City’s DJ pioneer Richard Quitevis, or better know as DJ QBert and the legacy of the Filipino...
View Article