Daily Archives: June 5, 2009

2009 New York Asian Film Festival Trailer

Here’s a crazy trailer for the 2009 New York Asian Film Festival Trailer by Subway Cinemas. (They took it up a notch or two from the 2008 trailer.) This year the New York Asian Film Festival says “fiddle dee dee” to the economic apocalypse and they’re singing in the rain of fire and brimstone that heralds the end of the world. It’s their biggest, most ridiculous festival ever!

Highlights include:

Opening Night Film – Written By (Hong Kong) with a special appearance by actor Lau Ching-wan and writer/director Wai Ka-fai

Centerpiece Film – Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (Japan) with a special appearance by director Yoshihiro Nishimura, action choreographer Tak Sakaguchi and visual effects supervisor Tsuyoshi Kazuno

Closing Night Film – Be Sure to Share (Japan) with special guests, director Sion Sono and the film’s star, Eiji Okuda

These three films will be World Premieres. The festival runs from June 19th to July 5th, and this year they’re screening a record-setting 50+ titles! More films listed here. Sample some of the film in the trailer.

2009 New York Asian Film Festival Trailer

Ken Jeong in The Hangover

Ken Jeong aka Dr. Ken is adding to his list of memorable characters. This time in The Hangover. You may remember him in Knocked up, Pineapple Express, and Role Models. He definitely makes the most of his screen time in the movies.

In The Hangover, Ken Jeong has another memorable character, Mr. Chow, an Asian crime lord. (You can see his poster above.) For this film, he goes all out with a nude scene. You can see a short clip of it in the trailer below. At the 30 second mark, he pops out of the trunk of a car naked. This is just the trailer! No doubt that will make for another memorable scene and character. He also says the full frontal was his idea. That’s pretty ballsy, Doc. Check out the trailer if you dare.

The Hangover MovieTrailer – Red Band Trailer (NSFW – profanity, nudity)

More about The Hangover

From the director of OLD SCHOOL comes a new comedy about a bachelor party gone horribly wrong.

Two days before his wedding, Doug (Justin Bartha) and his three buddies (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis) drive to Vegas for a blow-out night they’ll never forget. But when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning with pounding headaches, they can’t remember a thing. Their posh hotel suite is beyond trashed and the groom is nowhere to be found.

With no clue of what happened and little time to spare, the trio must attempt to retrace their bad decisions from the night before in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time for his wedding. However, the more they begin to uncover, the more they realize just how much trouble they’re really in.

FREE Tickets for Dat Phan in San Francisco Bay Area

For San Francisco Bay Area readers, you can see comedian Dat Phan for FREE this weekend at Tommy T’s in Pleasanton. FREE tickets area available for Friday and Sunday! Dat Phan won NBC’s Last Comic Standing competition in 2003 and is still going strong with new and classic material!

To get in free, add yourself to the guestlist for one of these days:

Fri 6/5/09 show at 9:30PM here
Sun 6/7/09 show at 7:00PM here

Regular ticket price is $15-$25 but free if you get on the guestlist.

Note you have to be at least 17 years old to get into the club. They have a full bar and restaurant and there is a two item minimum purchase – food or drink. Entrees are about $20 and up, but the food is pretty good, try the beef skewers. There is no smoking. Dat Phan is really funny and does some jokes in Vietnamese. Topics he talks about are relationship with his mom and dad, finding a job, college, dating interracially, all topics we can relate to.

Dat Phan in Bringing Home the White Girl

Beyond the Pride Lion Dance Exhibition – Promo

The first Beyond the Pride Lion Dance Exhibition is set to be held in Southern California on November 7, 2009. Everyone far and wide is welcome. Pride is an integral part of the Lion Dancer life style: pride in one’s traditions, pride in one’s team, and pride in one’s craft. The Beyond the Pride Lion Dance Exhibition hopes to provide an open arena to display the best of our proud art form to the community. The event also hopes to foster brotherhood and sportsmanship between teams, encouraging participants to go beyond one’s pride and interact and learn from each other. Learn more about the event here. If you want to compete, find more information here.

If the video looks like Wong Fu Productions’ style, it’s because they we involved in making the promo. Love the beginning of the video with outdoor scenes of the lion dancers. The colors are so rich.

Beyond the Pride Lion Dance Exhibition – Promo