Tag: Try Harder!

  • Top Films of 2021

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    It’s time for the top films of 2021! According to Nicole Kidman the movies are back! Yet there’s no denying it was another strange year. We got a flood of films that were delayed from 2020. There was an abundance of Marvel films and a bevy of streaming indies. Yet for all the fanfare about…

  • Director Debbie Lum Interview: Try Harder!

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    Welcome documentarian Debbie Lum to chat about her new film Try Harder!, college admissions, high school superlatives, and the ongoing process of Asian-American Pacific Islander representation on screen. More about Try Harder!: San Francisco’s Lowell High, one of the best public schools in the country, draws high achievers–nearly 70% Asian Americans–from across the city into…

  • Review: The Power of the Dog, Wolf, and Try Harder!

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    Jane Campion brings us Benedict Cumberbatch in chaps in The Power of the Dog. George MacKay channels his inner canis lupus in Wolf. Finally get ready to relive your college admissions trauma through the students of Lowell High in the incredibly watchable Try Harder!. More about The Power of the Dog: Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank…