Interview: Bobo Le of the new film The Wedding Banquet
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • April 20, 2025 @ 10:07pm
I had the pleasure of sitting down to chat over Zoom with Bobo Le, who plays Kendall in director Andrew Ahn's The Wedding Banquet, which released in theatres April 18.
Andrew Ahn's The Wedding Banquet is a reimagining of Ang Lee's film of the same name sharing surface similarities, but that's where they end. 2025's version (co-written by Andrew Ahn and James Schamus) – like the 1993 version – follows members of the Asian diaspora living in queer relationships while dealing with marriage and childbirth.
How to describe Novocaine... if I had to reduce it to its bare minimum, I'd have to say a slapstick gore fest of the highest order. The core premise is Nate Caine (Jack Quaid) has a neurological disorder where he can't feel pain and was subsequently sequestered by his parents who did everything they could to shelter him from the big bad world outside.
One of the interesting strengths of Captain America's earlier incarnations was the tonal shift film to film.
There are no spoilers to this film – it's a true story and we know how this ends. On September 5 in 1972 at the 20th Olympic Games, the first games held in Germany since the war ended 27 years earlier, terrorists belonging to Black September abducted eleven Israeli athletes in Olympic Village.
Okay, where to start with Gladiator II?
Let me preface all this by saying I'm a big fan of much of the early work of Ridley Scott. The Duelists is an incredible epic story based on history, Alien is a marvel of horror twisting sci-fi using the wind from Star Wars to shift the genre like one of Gieger's designs.
I am a Generation One Transformers child. I grew up riding my BMX to the store using my paper route money and allowance to buy Transformers action figures (this is back when child labour was only semi-frowned upon and letting kids go door to door at 5 AM multiple days a week was okay).
This weekend saw the opening of the sports film You Gotta Believe. Every generation has a "sports film" – for some it's Field of Dreams, for others it's A League of Their Own or The Sandlot, and for me it was Bad News Bears.
I'm not a huge horror fan; my tastes in the genre are very specific. If it's an Eldritch Lovecraftian tale, a lush gothic terror, or a pastoral folk horror? Count me in. Mainstream A-list stars and a hot TV actor/indie director making his first genre film using a flashy gimmick with lots of mainstream media buzz? Not interested.
Interview: Comic and actor Brandon T. Jackson launches the "Still Detroit" comedy tour
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • November 17, 2023 @ 8:12pm
Many know Brandon T. Jackson from his film career starring in Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson, and the upcoming I'm Beginning to See the Light. But before that, he was a young stand-up comic.
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