From Director Andrew Ahn, The Wedding Banquet presents a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, and family expectations. Frustrated with his ...
What a cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-chan, and Bowen Yang. Remaking Ang Lee's award-winning 1993 queer rom-com The Wedding Banquet is no mean feat, but Fire Island's Andrew Ahn makes ...
When Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” was released back in 1993, the AIDS epidemic was still taking lives, marriage equality in the U.S. was decades away and queer representation in media remained ...
It takes some guts to follow in the footsteps of writer James Schamus and director Ang Lee, but Andrew Ahn has achieved ...
For years, gay people have been asking for queer stories that don’t 1) center around trauma and 2) take place several decades ago. There’s nothing wrong with a period piece, of course — and darker, ...
Remaking the 1993 Ang Lee movie, this new take finds fresh things to say about society, love and the choices we make, starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone. This brand new version, which moves the ...
Andrew Ahn's update on the 1993 classic of the same name follows two gay couples in crisis, but it’s the matriarchs who shine. In an era when gay marriage is legal, same-sex parenting is commonplace ...
Ang Lee’s 1993 film “The Wedding Banquet” starts from a gag premise. A Taiwanese man living in New York is in a gay relationship but still closeted to his parents, who are pressuring him to marry; to ...
Remember what romantic comedies used to be? I love a cozy, sit-on-the-couch Netflix rom-com as much as anyone, but then a movie like The Wedding Banquet comes around and reminds one that the genre can ...
It takes some guts to follow in the footsteps of writer James Schamus and director Ang Lee, but Andrew Ahn has achieved something pretty special here with his big-hearted reinterpretation of the ...