In its opening scene, in which two old Hawaiian men swap nostalgic memories while peppering their speech with Pidgin words, Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man may bring to mind Steve McQueen’s recent Small Axe anthology, which highlighted...
Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians knows exactly what it’s doing by employing so much jazzy, brassy Big Band music. In many ways, the movie feels like something new; a romantic comedy featuring an all Asian cast taking place amidst...
