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Pirated DVDs — You can’t beat em

  • February 14, 2011 3:59 am

Pirated DVDs are sold openly in malls, open markets and stores all over Southeast Asia and China. Actually, in my travels, I find the pirated DVD stores in China, especially in Shanghai or Beijing, to be the best because they cater to ex-pats. So their inventory runs deep, ranging from an entire season box set for the latest season of GLEE to European short film collections to Criterion edition DVDs that are either out of print or would cost $100 in the States.

General rule of thumb is the really new films that are still in theaters, like TRON LEGACY or the latest HARRY POTTER flick, are a crapshoot. They are either hand-cams or the quality is overall not good. But, the older titles, like Criterion box sets, for example, are exact DVD rips, so the quality is stellar.  Read more...

Hollywood and Asians: Why Protests Alone Won’t Change Anything

  • August 31, 2009 7:02 pm

thegoods_kenjeong01The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who was very involved in the recent protests against the film The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. I’m sure most of our readers know about the scene from that movie which has outraged some Asian Americans: Ken Jeong plays a car salesman who gets assaulted by his white co-workers after another salesman, played by Jeremy Piven, invokes Pearl Harbor. You can read about it here.

Now, this acquaintance was very passionate about protesting this film, as well as the whitewashing of the upcoming live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender. He planned to participate in on-going actions against these two films because of the “vital” need for us to demand that Hollywood increase its representation of Asian (Americans) and to portray us more accurately.  Read more...