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Just because Gregg Araki has been absent from cinemas doesn’t mean he’s been resting. The iconoclastic director of The Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin, and Kaboom has spent the last decade directing TV, both his o...

In 1935, Chinese actress Ruan Lingyu took her own life at just 24 years old. Her choice was the culmination of tabloid frenzies regarding her personal as well as her professional life—a permanent choice, of course, but a choice nonetheless. Such was her fame and influence, though, that Lingyu’s name remained in memory in Chinese cinema over the coming dec...

When Lia Kim (Kim Hye-rang) bought a basement studio in the Seongsu-dong neighborhood of Seoul’s Seongdong district in 2014, she could not have imagined that, 12 years later, the studio would house the team that has come the closest to dethroning the undefeated

Home can be a place, a language, a sound, or thousands of people singing along to a song from halfway around the world.

For six years in Los Angeles, 88rising’s Head in the Clouds (HITC) has created that kind of home for Asian artists and the fans who love them. More than a music festival, it’s a place where artists can bring their own corners of A...

It’s always awkward when a big studio movie touts anti-corporate messaging, since buying a ticket still ultimately fills a conglomerate’s coffers. This control layer of the Matrix is just the nature of Hollywood filmmaking, but the folks behind the latest Looney Tunes live-action hybrid had the fortunate misfortune of being kicked to the curb. The reasons...