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2 Broke Girls, S5E19 “And the Attack of the Killer Apartment”: A TV Review
What do we want out of Randy? This week marks the sixth episode he’s been around, and within that time he’s already broken up with Max and travelled across the country for her. Neither are...
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“Kimmy Goes to a Play” as a Conversation Between Tina Fey and Asian American...
The culture war is a conversation. While it is ultimately a conflict, more often than not this takes the form of ideas and criticism being slung back and forth across the trenches. To be heard is a...
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2 Broke Girls, S5E20 “And the Partnership Hits the Fan”: A TV Review
Cue the 7th episode of 2 Broke Girls featuring Ed Quinn’s Randy and I’m feeling a lot less gracious than I was last week. While that installment focused on just how far Max’s boyfriend would go to...
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2 Broke Girls, S5E21 “And the Ten Inches”: A TV Review
It’s weird to type the words “home stretch” without having my mind wander to how the the Raptors are doing in the NBA playoffs. To stick with illustrations involving my hometown’s professional sports...
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2 Broke Girls, S5E22 “And the Big Gamble”: A TV Review
An obvious part of my excitement for tonight’s season finale was the fact that it affords me a break from reviewing this show weekly, which is much appreciated given how busy my life has been lately....
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Why I Know “I’ll Be Back” to Watching 90’s Action Movies When I Have Kids
I came to the 90’s action party late. Sure, I watched a few Arnie movies as a kid, but those were the blatantly child-friendly movies. I’m talking Kindergarten Cop and Jingle All The Way, fun romps to...
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In With the Old [And In With the New]: The Silver Lining of Intertextuality
Last Friday I asked you all to watch a short video on the concept of intertextuality, which provides the basis for this week’s post. While Nerdwriter1, the YouTuber responsible, initially describes the...
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What Happened to Comic Book Resources?
“Change is good.” That’s a slogan I very vividly remember from a McDonald’s commercial around the turn of the century. A classroom full of kindergartners is shocked to find out that the Golden Arches...
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Why I’m Thankful I Had the Opportunity to Write For CWR and Why I’m Stepping...
A little over three years ago, a close childhood friend contacted me because their cousin (Evan) was looking for another writer to become a regular contributor on a blog called Culture War Reporters. I...
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In Ophelia‘s Seat: Anthony Garland Explains the Film’s Name, Length, and Even...
This past Friday the short film Ophelia began screening at the 2016 LA Shorts Fest. The piece touches on fear, expectation, pressure, and ambition through a the first few minutes of a job interview...
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2 Broke Girls, S6E1-2 “And the Two Openings: Parts One & Two”: A TV Review
Season premieres are all about expectations. On one hand a show needs to be instantly recognizable, a challenge for ensembles with shifting casts [I’m looking at you, Community]. On the other hand it...
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2 Broke Girls, S6E3 “And the 80’s Movie”: A TV Review
Even given the premiere’s botched opening it’s still a bit surprising that we return to see Max and Caroline’s Dessert Bar as having been open for a full week. As the girls’ most recent attempt at...
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Re: “Black Lives Matter and White Privilege”
I need to state upfront that this post is not an all-encompassing response to the Black Lives Matter movement [which I will be shortening to “BLM”] and the concept of White privilege. The title instead...
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2 Broke Girls, S6E5 “And the College Experience”: A TV Review
I am invested in Max and Caroline’s relationship. While it’s no secret that reviewing 2 Broke Girls is far from my favourite task for the week, I do care about how the show deals with the pair at its...
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Asian Comic Book Fan Watches Doctor Strange with Low Expectations of Racial...
This is the second part of a series I began almost exactly three years ago with “Asian Comic Book Fan Watches Thor: The Dark World Expecting Racial Representation, Deals with Crushing Disappointment by...
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2 Broke Girls, S6E6 “And the Rom-Commie”: A TV Review
So not only has CBS stopped updating the 2 Broke Girls page on their site with advance stills, but this week I was unable to find any trailers uploaded to YouTube to use in my header image. It’s like...
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Asian Comic Book Fan Watches Doctor Strange…: An Addendum
Even though I wrote a little over a thousand words last week on my experiences with Doctor Strange [required reading for this blog post] there were a couple of additional criticisms I wanted to level...
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2 Broke Girls, S6E7 “And the Sophie Doll”: A TV Review
So first thing’s first, and just because it’s the first thing you see when you open up one of these reviews, the header image is very clearly of subpar quality. The best I could find as far as promos...
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2 Broke Girls, S6E8 “And the Duck Stamp”: A TV Review
While it’s certainly disappointing to have to write, a run of two decent consecutive 2 Broke Girls episodes is really not bad at all. I thoroughly enjoyed “And the Rom-Commie” as well as “And the...
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Making Till We Meet Again: Director Bank Tangjaitrong on Filming Your Home...
Last Wednesday I posted my review of Till We Meet Again, an award-winning American-Thai production. The film follows the experiences of a couple traveling through Thailand, paying particularly close...
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