REVIEWS
Post-film thoughts.
The Wedding Banquet: A Beloved Queer Text, Refreshed
Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet is an ambitious and multi-layered adventure. Against themes of queer and cultural identity, found and chosen family, the story deconstructs its characters to their most vulnerable forms and their actors bring to the table a well of lived experience and intelligence that acts as the glue pulling everything together.
Squid Game Season 2: Improving Debt Culture Critique Through Diversity
Modern media has an expiration date. Films and television series retain relevance in the news cycle for a week maximum. Yet almost a month after its release, Squid Game Season 2 still trends in Netflix’s “Top 10 in the World” ranking. How has this internationally acclaimed thriller maintained viewership and high social media status for so long?
Past Lives: Fated to Only Pass You By
Celine Song's Past Lives (2023), the film that took the world by (emotional) storm, makes big wake-up calls.