Picture this: It’s 1987. A tiny Asian American woman with a big voice and an even bigger sense of chutzpah (look it up, it means “shameless audacity” in Yiddish) […]
Author: Serena Kim
Serena Kim was the editor-in-chief of Character Media.
The Treatment: Two Korean Sisters Seek Revenge Against A Yakuza Gangster In ‘Far Above Our Heads’
For each issue, we choose an unproduced screenplay and present it to you as a one-page description of the proposed movie. A talented and promising illustrator then reimagines the […]
Review: Japanese Mythology And A Horrific Period In American History Collide In ‘The Terror: Infamy’
Who needs a haunted house for creepy-crawlies when you’ve got an internment camp? The second season of AMC’s prestige drama “The Terror” takes us back to one of the darker periods […]
Before JimmyBoi Was ‘The Streets’ Jeweler’ He Was A Single Dad Known As ‘Pill Gates’
If you love sparkly things, then JimmyBoi’s Instagram Stories will make you drool. In one he holds two huge diamond-encrusted rings on his sausage-like fingers. “Oh yeah,” he says […]
Throwback: Sculptor Isamu Noguchi Is The OG Hapa Icon—And He Didn’t Even Have A Name Until He Was 5 Years Old
You know when you see a Noguchi coffee table. It’s comprised of three simple components: two vaguely boomerang-esque wooden pieces whose pointed ends touch, balancing an incredibly heavy triangular […]
Shoots And Ladders: ‘Minari’ and Mermaids Are Making Waves In Asian American Entertainment This August
FILM Marvel took us all by surprise by announcing that Simu Liu will play the titular lead in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” Hawaiian-born Destin Daniel Cretton is […]
Shoots and Ladders: This Summer, Asian Americans Are Making Power Moves With Some ‘Fast Company’
FILM Massive congratulations go out to the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho for winning the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his commercially and critically successful […]
Review: Kishi Bashi Is Forging His Own Definition Of What Asian American Music Means
It’s not news that American pop music needs desegregating. Hip-hop is historically black music. Indie rock and country are often considered white. Reggaeton and Spanish trap are obviously Latino […]
Review: So You Think You Can Write ‘Late Night?’
When I first tried to find work in TV, I scored a meeting with a studio president and explained that I wanted to be a TV writer. He looked […]
Review: Artist No Rome’s EP ‘Crying In The Prettiest Places’ Is Cash Money
A little less than a year ago, Zane Lowe from Beats 1 conducted a video interview with the frontman of The 1975. Matty Healy grabbed a youthful, fuschia-haired Filipino […]
Shoots And Ladders: We’re Spilling The Hottest (Industry-Related) Tea In Town
FILM Hollywood isn’t quite ready to end its relationship with Asian American writers of love letters. This time around Leah Lewis (“Nancy Drew”) will play the Cyrano de Bergerac-esque […]
Review: Why You Should Be Watching Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’
A tall, dark stranger wanders off a boat filled with Chinese immigrant workers and surveys his destination, San Francisco in 1878: a hectic tableau buzzing with protesting Irish workers, […]
Meet Actor Mark Dacascos—The Martial Artist Behind Zero In ‘John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum’
It’s late morning in the tiny Conejo Valley hamlet of Westlake Village. Designed to look like an old world European farmhouse dropped into suburban L.A., the Stonehaus Wine Restaurant […]
Review: ‘One Child Nation’ Reveals Certain Inexorable Truths About Chinese Propaganda And Policy
New mothers and fathers know the agony of letting your baby cry for even a moment without rushing to comfort her. Now just imagine putting your newborn in a […]
Review: ‘Delhi Crime Story’ Deconstructs The Cultural Context Of The Rape Of Jyoti Singh
Surely you must remember in December 2012 when the news reported the horrific gang rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh and the beating of her male date on a bus […]
