3/5 stars Korean superstar Gang Dong-won plays a former slave who becomes the leader of a rebellion in Uprising, a lavish period epic from Kim Sang-man (Midnight FM). The film opened the 29th Busan International Film Festival on October 2, and will be released on Netflix next week. Co-written and produced by Park Chan-wook, this … Read more
When I was young, my mom’s friend’s kids came over to watch DreamWorks’ 1998 classic The Prince of Egypt. Less than 10 minutes in, they tearily demanded we turn it off. It wasn’t the violence against the enslaved people that was getting to them. When they watched those people’s backs cut up by whips, they weren’t … Read more
“Without them, we would not have the education and everything else,” said Lloyd Dong Jr, an 81-year-old American Chinese man living in California, US. Almost 90 years ago, in 1939, the Dong family were denied accommodation from estate agents and landlords due to racially restrictive housing laws that prioritised renting out and selling properties to … Read more
