This past awards season, Everything Everywhere All at Once was the little engine that could — an A24 immigrant-family saga with a mostly Asian cast made for around $20 million going up against studio titans like Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick. Before long, the underdog became …
Read More »'Joy Ride': Sex, Butt Cocaine, and Raunch-Com Representation for the Win
Raunch-coms live or die by their ability to make you go “Oh my god!” or “Ewwww!” or do a spit-take that spews popcorn over whoever is unlucky enough to be sitting in front of you. So you can give it up for Joy Ride, director Adele Lim‘s variation on the …
Read More »'Joy Ride': The Asian Squad Raising Hell and Crushing Stereotypes
The new movie Joy Ride, a riotously funny comedy about a group of four Asian-American pals — Audrey (Ashley Park of Emily in Paris), Kat (Stephanie Hsu, Oscar-nominated star of Everything Everywhere All at Once), Lolo (Sherry Cola), and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu) — who head to China to try to …
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