Posts tagged with Media
Review: Interior Chinatown
Some 18 months ago, I noticed and wrote about the surge of Asian-American cinema in Hollywood. Crazy Rich Asians was the breakout movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once made the movie subgenre mainstream, dominating the 95th Academy Awards and…
Translating Culture
Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, Google and others had already experimented with, successfully, adding aspects of machine learning to traditional rules-based language systems to get more accurate translations. LLMs, too, seem to do a pretty good job—with the added…
Financialization Endgame
2024 was a pretty rough year for the video game industry. Even though there were some great games released last year, workers continued to get laid off at a higher rate compared to 2023, and studios were unceremoniously shut down—…
The Same Game, Prettier
A tried-and-true way to make more money from the same movie is to re-release it in a new format, for the diehard fans who want to own every single version of a piece of cinema. For a while, this meant…
Asian-American Cinema
A couple of months back, we turned on the Oscar awards, I think for the first time in well over a decade, mostly to see how Everything Everywhere All at Once would fare that evening. Given that the movie had…
The Expanse Finales
So I've been a bit behind, but I recently finished with both The Expanse novel series—with Leviathan Falls as the ninth and final book—as well as the sixth and final season of The Expanse TV series…
