Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire’ Is a Celebration of Culture Clad in Couture Tim Chan
There’s a throwaway scene a couple episodes into Netflix’s new reality series,
Bling Empire, where three of the cast members meet up to confer about recent events, while shopping for soup ingredients at a Chinese health food store. As the guys work their way through bins of deer antlers, sea cucumbers, and ginseng, they start trading jabs about spending habits and relationship statuses. It’s the perfect East-meets-West setup for a reality-show fight, until one of them spots a $15,000 piece of dried fish maw (a type of fish bladder believed to be good for the skin). Suddenly, talk turns from why he hasn’t proposed to his pregnant girlfriend to what type of traditional broth he can make for her using the fish maw instead. This is
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Though Ringwald was close to Hughes back in the day, she recently realized some troubling things about his films that she and the rest of the world overlooked in the '80s.
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Cobra Kai season 4 needs to make some big changes when it comes to Asian representation
And why wasn t this fixed earlier?
By Reyzando Nawara
Cobra Kai season three spoilers follow.
The Karate Kid movie was a cultural touchstone. Who could forget wax on, wax off, or the moment when Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) defeats Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) in the All Valley Tournament? But underneath all that fun badassery,
The Karate Kid offers something deeper and more valuable: a lesson on finding the strength to push through adversity and stereotypes.
Filmmaker Yu Gu was born in Chongqing, China, raised in Vancouver, Canada, and found her way to the University of Southern California film program. Her films, like the feature documentary that she co-directed
Who is Arthur Chu?, which won two festival grand jury awards and was broadcast on WORLD Channel in 2018, explore intersections between different cultural worlds and people on the margins. Her documentary
A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem sheds light on women at the margins and on the sidelines, exploring the continued fight to end the gender pay gap prevalent throughout the National Football League. Through the stories of two women in particular the film paints a vivid picture of gender inequality at the heart of America’s favorite pastime.