Welcome to another edition of Watched at Home where take a look at the DEG’s Top 20 most viewed films over the last week. After shocking the world with its leap to the top of the charts, The Little Things fell to No. 2 at the hands of wait for it Universal’s The Marksman.
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If he’d had the time after meeting American captains of industry in Seattle and Barack Obama at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ducked out at the close of his United Nations appearance and into a New York movie theater to check on how China’s other soft power ambassadors its movies, not its pandas are playing to American audiences.Struggling to get off
Here Are the Young Men: Eoin Macken on How Acting Works into Directing
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Here Are the Young Men. Based on the
Robert Doyle novel of the same name, the film captures the raw, unabashed, and cynical view of youth. The story follows three high school grads who plan to celebrate their newfound freedom with an epic bender, but when a horrible accident sends them spiraling, each must grapple with the most daunting challenge of their lives: facing their own inner demons. I spoke to Macken about adopting Doyle s story to screen, his progression as a director, and how his background as an actor helped shooting the film.
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Alain Uy plays a divorced dad in the martial arts action comedy “The Paper Tigers.” Photo: Well Go USA
“The Paper Tigers” is a likable example of grit and determination, both onscreen and behind the scenes. Writer-director Tran Quoc Bao said he turned to Kickstarter to help finance his first feature film rather than give in to Hollywood’s suggestions that he cast white actors to play the lead roles he wrote as Asian Americans.
It took nearly a decade, but now Tran’s kung fu comedy/drama is out Friday, May 7, in the way he envisioned it. Any similarities to “Cobra Kai” are superficial.