causticameracrap · 2 years ago
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from I Rewrite My American Story in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” - Part 3 of Brian Lin’s essay on the portrayal of complex Asian American racial dynamics in the record-breaking box office hit
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theoffingmag · 7 months ago
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“Formation”—a paradox of a word. A dance or military formation connotes order, confidence, collective power, but the process of formation, usually the opposite. Becoming is often a mess. It can throw you off, isolate. This dichotomy is at the heart of queerness. It’s the hope of chosen community: becoming a radical, unforeseeable version of yourself in a circle of people doing the same.
Brian Lin, "My Body, Ms. Bey, LV"
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thoughtfulzombienerd · 8 months ago
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okay, but why the fuck is it that everyone who has acted or voiced Liu Kang is all extremely cute! wtf
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squarebracketsmileyface · 2 months ago
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Here's a little thing I talked to my boyfriend about:
Brian comes into the kitchen in the morning to see Tim and Birdie listening to music and arguing about how many chocolate chips are acceptable to put in pancake batter before it just stops being pancake batter anymore, and he just sits there watching them with tears in his eyes. He's known Tim since they were both 16, he lost Tim after uni, then he found him again over a decade later, after he'd almost died and assumed that Tim had died. He found Tim again, but this Tim had a daughter he loved more than anything in the world, and this Tim had worked his absolute ass off to make sure he could look after his daughter properly, making sure she never had to deal with what he did growing up
And now Brian is a part of that life that Tim is so wonderfully happy in, they're together properly, far more official than they ever were in uni but still just as in love, probably even moreso. He loves getting to see what a good dad Tim is to Birdie, he loves getting to see how well Tim managed on his own for the first ten years of Birdie's life, and he's so in love with how happy Tim is now.
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lin-archive · 9 months ago
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mariocki · 7 months ago
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
"I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die?"
"It worked in the movie!"
"Well, it ain't working now, Frank."
"You mean the movie lied?"
#the return of the living dead#horror imagery#gore tw#horror film#american cinema#dan o'bannon#john a. russo#russell streiner#rudy ricci#clu gulager#james karen#don calfa#thom mathews#beverly randolph#linnea quigley#brian peck#jewel shepard#john philbin#miguel a. núñez jr.#mark venturini#perhaps the single most influential zombie film outside of Romero? i mean you ask someone to do an impression of a zombie and chances#are they'll start groaning 'braaiinnsss'; that's this film! that fully wasn't a thing before this movie invented it! and with one swoop a#piece of pop culture immortality was born. not that that is the extent of this film's gifts: it takes the satirical dark humour of Romero's#colour zombie movies and ratchets it into full on splatstick‚ goofy comedy; there's the killer punk soundtrack; a truly iconic (and epoch#defining) appearance by scream queen Lin Quigley; hugely impressive and atypical turns by older Hollywood figures like#Gulager and James Karen‚ endlessly quotable dialogue... this is the gift that keeps on giving! at times playful and irreverent but not#without moments of real empathy and sharp commentary (the very ending is a truly bravado middle finger to the audience)#tears apart the whole mythos of horror cinema in the 80s but also larger 80s culture and particularly US society#and even more particularly the militaristic attitudes of the Reagan era US government. delightfully waspish but absolutely never#taking itself too seriously. a treat of a film!
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heytherecentaurs · 2 years ago
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When the Lin Manuel Miranda reference and subsequent jokes appear on NADDPOD what adds to the humour is that at least the main cast have all met him—Idk about Zac and Siobhan but Murph, Emily, Caldwell and Jake all appeared in at least one CollegeHumor sketch with him.
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dhropmazz · 2 years ago
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BIBI, Warren Hue, NIKI and Rich Chigga photographed by Zhong Lin
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ohshitfangirlalert · 7 months ago
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This is like an archived blog reborn. I'm so happy I could give it a second life. 2015 was a wild year, so was 2016. But here we are in 2024!! Omg. Thanks for being beautiful ☆
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kdram-chjh · 2 years ago
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Cdrama: Love For Two Lives (2022)
Gifs of Ending of cdrama “Love For Two Lives”
EP01 | Omg! The King's new queen is a cute girl from the parallel world! | [Love For Two Lives]
Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AcnnqdYZbQ
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gameofthunder66 · 1 year ago
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Frank & Penelope - Official Trailer (2022) Kevin Dillon, Caylee Cowan
-watched 7/25/2023- 3 stars- on Tubi (free)
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causticameracrap · 2 years ago
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from My Drag Masculinity Steals the Show in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” - Part 2 of Brian Lin’s essay on complex Asian American identities in the record-breaking box office hit
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tipsynaga · 2 years ago
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When Brian Eno wrote “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” this is the mountain of tiger he was talking about
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This episode is brought to you by Black excellence. Was Atlanta all a dream? How far did you make it into the new Black Panther before crying your eyes out? Come hang out with us as we review Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the final season of Atlanta as well as bidding farewell to superhero legends, Chadwick Boseman and Kevin Conroy.
Correction: We made a claim that Namor is Latinx representation when he's actually Indigenous representation. 
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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years ago
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
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While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is an anomaly in the franchise. Even if you watch it in the “right” order, (which is between Fast and Furious 6… and its mid-credit scene), this feels like a movie that technically fits in the franchise rather than being a satisfying entry.
17-year-old Sean (Lucas Black) gets kicked out of his mother’s home after his latest racing stunt. Sent to Tokyo to live with his father, he becomes fascinated with Tokyo’s signature racing style – drifting. Under the tutelage of Han (Sung Kang) and with the help of his friend Twinkie (Bow Wow) this newcomer might have what it takes to become the DK (Drift King) and win the heart of the prettiest girl in school, Neela (Nathalie Kelley).
To understand Tokyo Drift, we must travel back to 2006. At this point, the Fast and Furious series was without Vin Diesel and directionless. While Sung Kang’s Han was retroactively added to the "family" later on, there are no recurring actors here. If you recast the role and excised a cameo at the very end, you’d think this was a pale imitation of the series rather than a fully-endorsed third chapter. It begins in high school with the sorriest excuse for a teenager in recent memory. You can practically see Lucas Black shaving his beard between takes. There’s no way, NO WAY he’s a teen but the film reminds us numerous times that he’s a minor. I know 2 Fast 2 Furious was dumb, but don’t expect us to be dumb for enjoying it! Not helping are the flat performances. Sung Kang has charisma. Everyone else is running on fumes. They’re either (Bow Wow), or wooden enough to be confused with talking logs.
This is a terrible sequel which ever way you look at it. The stakes are much lower than in Fast and Furious 6. They’re even lower than in 2 Fast 2 Furious, which makes it hard to care about anything. Even with the possible threat of violence and death from a high-speed car crash, this is a high school drama on wheels. When Sean gets schooled at a drifting race by pro drifter Takashi (Brian Tee), you're not surprised." Aww nuts! I guess I won’t impress that girl I like" - the one non-Asian girl in the school, by the way - and "Uh oh! Turns out she’s involved with the very same guy who beat me! What does she even see in him?"
If you’re watching the series in order, you can have fun with Tokyo Drift. Dumb as the plot may be, those Japanese ladies shaking their behinds in front of the even hotter cars is what you came to see. When those rides are in motion and performing those crazy stunts - the kind you’d only dream of - you better grab some napkins to wipe the drool from your chin. What makes those moves particularly spectacular is that unlike the kind of nonsense we're seeing in the franchise nowadays, you could theoretically do what these people are doing. There’s something about seeing something kinda-sorta attainable that resonates.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is largely composed of cool car stunts and missed opportunities with a big heaping’ helping of dumb on top. One can’t help but feel strange seeing an American kid travel to Tokyo and become prolific at the art of drifting, particularly in a series that's become so multicultural. No need to delve on that thought too much - no one involved did. Not even director Justin Lin, who’s since gone on to do much bigger and better things. Tokyo Drift is the kind of movie you wind up including in your collection if you like the series but would never watch if it weren’t for a crucial plot development about 2/3 of the way through. (On Blu-ray, January 5, 2019)
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atomboyz · 2 years ago
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Boyz on a Mission: Tamsui Old Street (Keith, Marvin, 3/AcQUA)
Part 1 | Part 2
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