Edited by Katie Constantine While scrolling through Netflix in a post-Thanksgiving daze, I was pleasantly surprised to see the cover of Love Hard, featuring an AAPI lead. The 2021 film is a holiday romantic comedy starring Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O Yang. A dating columnist Natalie (played by Dobrev) is based in LA, but matches […]Read Post ›
Written and edited by Katie Constantine & Tiffany Chan All images property of Netflix On the last day of AAPI Heritage month this year, Netflix released Always Be My Maybe, co-written and starring Ali Wong, directed by Nahnatchka Khan. The film tells the story of former childhood sweethearts, taking inspiration from the iconic 1990s Nora […]Read Post ›
Whenever one watches a romantic comedy, it’s important to know who’s creating the messaging. Just because the main character’s a woman, doesn’t mean the story portrays a woman’s point of view. In reality, it’s the writer’s point of view, and more than half the time that position is held by a man. There are many […]Read Post ›
Crazy Rich Asians dominated the American box offices in August and has been the topic of much conversation in the Asian American community since the trailer was first released in the Spring. This is the first Hollywood film since 1993’s Joy Luck Club with a full cast of Asian American leads (which incidentally uses some […]Read Post ›
The Female Gaze 