Category: Culture
Irreverent Experimenter Matthew Victor Pastor
Matthew Victor Pastor is an irreverent and prolific experimental Filipino-Australian filmmaker living in Melbourne. He has made five features and several shorts in his 11-year-old…
Vancouver Asian Film Festival Launches First Canada-China Scriptwriting Competition
CHOPSO interviewed Kevin K. Li, a board member of Vancouver Asian Film Festival and also creator and co-producer of HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls. Kevin…
Iron Fist Brilliantly Adapts the Chinese Martial Arts Genre to Western Cinema
After hearing negative buzz about Netflix and Marvel’s television series, Iron Fist, I almost didn’t bother to click on the poster when it appeared on…
Bet You Didn’t Know There Were Chinese Passengers On Titanic…
featured image: Fang Lang is rescued in a deleted scene from Titanic (1997) In fact there were eight, all third-class passengers and on their way…
Watters’ World: Chinatown (Unedited)
If you’re an Asian American, you might still be trying very hard to forget the extremely stupid, unfunny and racist Chinatown segment of Watters’ World aired two weeks…
Outsiders in Our Own Home
Last week we saw Fox News’ Jesse Watters in Chinatown conducted an offensive interview segment with Chinese immigrants who don’t understand English. Not only were the interviews not…
New Trailer: The Great Wall
The Chinese-American coproduction, The Great Wall, is set to be released in February 2017 but the trailer with Matt Damon as a warrior who saves the…
Fan Ho 1931-2016
A few years ago, I discovered some photographs taken in the streets of Hong Kong during the fifties and sixties. Most of these photos depict…
Not Another Generous Tip Story
Several heartwarming stories of diners leaving generous tips have gone viral as of late, but here’s one that splashes cold water in your face. According to…
What Caused Former Grad Student to Snap?
The news of the shooting at UCLA unsettled the westside neighborhood where I live. For hours, media outlets would only comment that there were two down and…
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