Tinseltown Reviews

Venom  is a superhero movie directed by Ruben Fleischer, starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, and Riz Ahmed. The movie follows journalist Eddie Brock as he becomes bound to an alien symbiote known as Venom and learns to work together with the symbiote to prevent an alien invasion. I will come out right now and say that if Venom  is definitely the worst superhero movie of 2018, although technically Aquaman  does have a chance to snatch that title. I was always very skeptical of this movie since it was first announced, and I've gone on record to say there are only two ways that a Venom  movie could have been anything other than a disaster: 1) if it's a dark and brooding tale about a broken man wrestling with this new manifestation of his dark desires (in the same vein as Logan ), or 2) if it goes full on campy with a movie that constantly makes fun of its own lore to the point of self-parody that seeks to do nothing other than be a fun, dumb action movie...

Yappie  is a 2018 web series written and directed by Taylor Chan and Philip Wang, produced by Asian American filmmaking group Wong Fu Productions. Its five episode run follows Andrew, a Chinese American who deals with everyday race-related issues, particularly those that apply to Asian Americans, ranging from being a token minority to yellow fever to unfair treatment from other races. The series is absolutely free and available on YouTube. YouTube played a large part in my formative years, as I'm sure many Asians my age could relate. TV and movies in the 2000's and 2010's were--and still are--not particularly famous for having a lot of Asian figures. There you'd find mostly white people, with your occasional black or Hispanic actor here and there. However, YouTube was completely different, with a surprisingly large number of Asians becoming very prominent in early YouTube. Everyone knew KevJumba, nigahiga, and Markiplier, and there's a very good chance you...

Transformers: The Last Knight  is a 2017 science fiction action movie directed by Michael Bay, starring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, and Laura Haddock. The fifth installment of the Transformers  franchise follows a group of people as they ally with the shape-shifting Transformers to prevent the destruction of Earth by searching through the secrets of the Transformers' past. My cousin told me he'll write my review for me as we left the movie theater today. "Four words," he said. "Don't go watch it." No truer words have been spoken. I'll be honest with you when I say it was a struggle to write that first paragraph because I really had to sit there and wonder to myself, "What actually happened in that movie?" I had to look up the synopsis for the movie for help, but to no surprise even that is extremely vague (look it up for yourself and see). In fact, as I write this it has been no more than three hours since I've le...