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Following the 2024 indie film “Because of Mika,” Director/Writer Paul Santoli has moved on to bigger things. Santoli and co-Writer Daniel Gualajara have completed their follow-up comedy, “We Want the Virus.” Santoli explained it to me as a “A modern day ‘Dumb and Dumber’ meets ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’” The film had its first premiere in [...]
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A surprising side effect of André Ricciardi’s chemotherapy is astonishingly long eyebrows. Ricciardi is the main subject, the brains and the idiot behind the frank and wonky “André Is an Idiot” (2025). Credit for the title goes to his mom, because when André told her he’d been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, she called [...]
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Some names outgrow the stories they came from. In the Philippines, say “Sisa” and people immediately understand what you mean. The word has drifted far from the pages of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere. Over time it has become shorthand for madness—a cultural label used to describe someone who has lost control of herself. Jun [...]
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“Rosemead” is based on “A dying mother’s plan: Buy a gun. Rent a hotel room. Kill her son,” an article by former LA Times columnist Frank Shyong. It details the events leading up to the fatal shooting of George, a schizophrenic teen by his terminally-ill, single mother Lai Hang. George’s name was changed to ‘Joe’ [...]
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Sriram Emani’s short film “Jam Boy” just had its world premiere at the DC Independent Film Festival this February and was the filmmaker’s debut. It leaves in its wake a deeply cultural picture about identity, dystopia, and self. That Emani’s film was also written by him—and starring him—shows the filmmaker is comfortable being vulnerable with [...]
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