“The opening night gala film for the Reel Asian International Film Festival, Michael Kang’s debut, Motel, is an interesting choice. Separate from the festival’s national spotlight, Malaysia, by virtue of being an American production (the script workshopped at a Sundance filmmakers lab), but it fits the festival very well, with pan-Asian appeal, featuring both Korean and Chinese Americans, and exploring the themes the expected audience of the festival are undoubtedly familiar with – the struggles of growing up Asian in North America.”

There is no (obvious) way to list reviews by author on Twitch, which means this cataloguing of my work there is long overdue. And that it’s been very hard to remember what I’ve written. I nearly missed this; a review of little indie film I liked very much, despite the fact it was a “coming of age” flick (the only indie films that there are, it seems like sometimes.) It doesn’t really subvert the genre or anything but it does twist it slightly, at least.