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THE WEDDING BANQUET – Review by Lynn Venhaus

April 15, 2025April 21, 2025 Lynn Venhaus andrew ahn, ang lee, Bowen Yang, Han-Gi Chan, James Schamus, joan chen, Kelly Marie Tran, lgbtq, Lily Gladstone, The Wedding Banquet, Youn Yuh-jung

A modern re-imagining of Ang Lee’s first 1993 breakthrough film, The Wedding Banquet is a funny, charming queer family romantic comedy about personal growth, making a home, and your chosen family becoming your real family. Hoping to stay in the country, a gay man Min (Han-Gi Chan) proposes a green card marriage to a female friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran), hoping to stay in the country, and in exchange, will pay for her partner’s IVF treatment. However, things soon get complicated when his grandmother surprises them with a visit. She wants an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

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RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON – Review by Leslie Combemale

March 3, 2021March 4, 2021 Leslie Combemale Adele Lim, animation, awkwafina, disney, gemma chan, Kelly Marie Tran, Qui Nguyen, Raya and the Last Dragon, samdra ph

Raya and the Last Dragon is definitely a fun, exciting animated feature, with most entertainment found in the vocal interpretations and endlessly gorgeous visuals, that bring the film to a compelling level, and raise the plot, which, though it offers exciting action, a fresh perspective, and Disney’s first Southeast Asian princess, ultimately fits the ‘Disney Magic’ formula‘ and business as usual.