The longterm effects of China’s one-child policy are examined in One Child Nation. From 1979-2015, China tried to control its population by instilling a policy stating that families could only have one child. Growing up in China, fimmaker Nanfu Wang never thought twice about the policy and even felt embarrassed by the fact that she …
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A family-owned bank in New York’s Chinatown becomes the only US bank indicted in the wake of the US financial crisis in ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail. After spending many years as a lawyer, Thomas Sung opened the Abacus Federal Savings Bank to help assist the community of New York’s Chinatown, with the bank currently being …
Well it’s time that I begin talking about another group of films that I am seeing for the first time. For my first blindspot film of 2014, I have chosen a film that I have kept hearing great things about. That film would be John Carpenter’s 1986 martial arts comedy Big Trouble in Little China. …
Keanu Reeves makes his directorial debut with the martial arts film Man of Tai Chi. Tiger Chen (Tiger Hu Chen) is a student of the Ling Kong Tai Chi style, whose unique method of using the, traditionally meditative, martial art for combat attracts the attention of the mysterious Donaka Mark (Reeves). Donaka uses his security …