Alan Ng

Ramen Shop

By Alan Ng | April 2019

Eric Khoo’s Ramen Shop hits on the subjects of bigotry and on how food brings warring cultures together. As you may surmise,…

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Eric Khoo’s Ramen Shop hits on the subjects of bigotry and on how food brings warring cultures together. As you may surmise, Ramen Shop opens on the...

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Ah, the sweet joys of a nicely constructed martial arts film, plus a known name added in for flavor. The film I speak of is Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The...

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The San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) kicks off its 2019 season with a story only San Francisco can tell and that's with the fourth...

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For me, the problem with watching the news every day is somehow every story has to have some political bent to it. Trump this…’eff Trump that. The...

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American Author Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City returns to the small screen with the fourth installment of Maupin’s love letter to the city of San...

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As of late, it seems the big studios have handed romance and romantic comedies over to streaming services. They’re just too much of a gamble, but at the...

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Here’s one of those not-so-secret secrets, we’re all broken people. Everyone. I suppose what makes us human is our ability to triumph above our...

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This past year, I have had numerous conversations about the problem of last year’s best picture Green Book. It was too simplistic to think you can end...

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It’s inevitable that we get into these Marvel vs. DC debates (clearly Marvel is winning). Marvel’s track record is impressive, especially in taking odd...

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Writer/director/actor Emilio Estevez is clearly his father’s son. In The Public, he’s using this film as a platform for his political activism by...

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