Tag: Awkwafina

• Crazy Rich Asians Review – Conspicuous consumption

  

  There is nothing more powerful in this world than a determined Michelle Yeoh. In the prologue to this film, arriving rain drenched to some fancy London hotel whose staff refuse to acknowledge her reservation, you wonder how these men are not rendered dead under her gaze. She has a better way to exact revenge though,…

  E Warren

  September 18, 2018

  Film, POC Filmmakers

  Awkwafina, Cinema, Constance Wu, Crazy Rich Asians, Film, Films, Gemma Chan, Henry Golding, Jon M. Chu, Michelle Yeoh, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Three Stars

• Ocean’s 8 Review – All jewel, no heist

  

  Here’s the thing about Steven Soderbergh, the director of this decade’s Ocean’s 11-13. He’s not a very cool filmmaker. Sure, his films are cool, and as he’s grown they’ve only become more effortlessly so. But the way he approaches them is like watching a masterclass in restraint. He is interested in the primacy of the…

  E Warren

  June 27, 2018

  Film, Review

  Anne Hathaway, Awkwafina, Cate Blanchett, Cinema, Comedy, Film, Films, Gary Ross, Heist, Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Mindy Kaling, Movie, Movies, Ocean’s 8, Opinion, Review, Richard Armitage, Rihanna, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Three Stars