‘Driveways’ is a film for our precarious time
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Is there a movie that’s suitable for our present time when we have to stay isolated yet yearning for togetherness, sensing so sharply[…]
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‘Parasite’ Makes Oscar History
By DIANA CHENGAAP Film & Arts Writer The Bong Joon Ho directed, genre-bending South-Korean feature ‘Parasite’ makes history today as the 92nd Academy Awards announced its nominees in the early[…]
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‘Hala’ is a portrait of a teenager caught between two cultures
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Chicago born writer-director Minhal Baig’s character study of an immigrant teenager named Hala is an intimate coming-of-age story of a girl struggling to[…]
‘Parasite’ is an entertaining wild ride
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer South Korean director Bong Joon-ho can make social statements in the most unconventional ways, like through the friendship between a child and a[…]
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Revisioned ’42nd Street’ is Broadway at its best
By Hoo Sook HwangAAP Theater Review ST. PAUL, Minn. (July 28, 2019) — Five, Six, Seven, Eight . . . “42nd Street” at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts is[…]
‘Late Night’ shines with comedy duo Thompson and Kaling
By Diana ChengAAP film review “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – W. B. Yeats These two lines from Yeats’s[…]
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‘Working Woman’ is a potent voice for the #MeToo Movement
By Diana ChengAAP Film and Arts Writer Israeli director Michal Aviad’s “Working Woman” is a good reminder that even though the momentum of the #MeToo Movement might seem to have[…]
‘Ramen Shop’ offers a gratifying delight
By Diana ChengAAP Film and Arts Writer This is not your ordinary foodie flick, as it touches on a subject that is not likely to be found in a culinary[…]
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Zhang Yimou’s ‘Shadow’ shifts from the masses to the individual
By Diana Cheng AAP film and arts writer TORONTO (Oct. 1, 2018) — After all the ultra-colorful spectacles in many of Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s films in recent years, it[…]
‘Capernaum’ may give child refugee a chance for Oscar spotlight
By Diana Cheng AAP film and arts writer CALGARY — (Sept. 28, 2018) — Lebanese actor/director Nadine Labaki’s affective rendering of 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) on the streets of Beirut[…]
