‘Boogie’: Eddie Huang’s Identity Coming-Of-Age Tale Has Vibrant Immediacy & Is Perfectly Messy [Review]

Eddie Huang is the true definition of a multi-hyphenate in Hollywood. We’re talking someone that is a famous chef and restauranteur, an author of a best-selling memoir, which was turned into a critically-acclaimed sitcom, “Fresh Off the Boat,” a TV show host of travel and cooking shows, and now a writer-director of a feature film, “Boogie.” And according to Huang, all that other stuff has been leading to the making of “Boogie” and his arrival as a feature filmmaker.

Seth Rogen is boarding Steven Spielberg's next directoral effort. The actor will play a character inspired by Spielberg's favorite uncle, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Seth Rogen is going to play Steven Spielberg’s Uncle in a new film. That might very well be the strangest sentence I’ve ever typed for The Playlist.

Officer Eric Talley, 51, of the Boulder Police Department. He was first on the scene as officers responded to the shooting, and he is being hailed as a hero.Colorado Governor Jared Polis tweeted, “Like my fellow Coloradans, I am closely watching unfolding events at King Soopers in Boulder.

Celebrities took to Twitter with grief, calls for stricter gun legislation and more mournful statements after a gunman killed 10 people inside a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado on March 22. The shooting — which took the life of police officer Eric Talley among the 10 victims — happened inside a King Soopers grocery store about a couple of miles south of the University of Boulder’s campus, The New York Times reported.

In an SXSW littered with feature directorial debuts, the runway for new voices to emerge has never been wider. While the opportunity has been there, however, the results have been mixed, at best.

For her feature film debut, Mei Makino wanted to create a story that captured the flaws and imperfections of teenage life—particularly the confusion of having a multiracial identity. She initially sought to model her protagonist after the Black Latina students she taught in her Austin, Tex., youth film program, but when local actress Emma Galbraith auditioned, she rewrote the character as hapa—of half-Asian descent, like Makino and Galbraith both are.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe question of how to convey characters speaking a language other than English in a fully English-language production is one that many a director of an exotically-set Hollywood production or lumpy Europudding has faced over the years. For those who simply cannot resort to subtitles, the artifice of heavily accented English dialogue is a stilted standby.

EXCLUSIVE: “That’s the first time I’ve seen the movie in a movie theater; I get chills,” beamed filmmaker Eddie Huang tonight watching his feature directorial Boogie at the AMC Century City 15.

The final days of high school are fodder for dozens of films over the years. Typically, things don’t work out well for those teens that are shedding their high school lives in favor of becoming adults.

EXCLUSIVE: MarVista Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights for the indie coming of age pic The Miseducation of Bindu directed by Prarthana Mohan and executive produced by Jay and Mark Duplass.

Many people have wanted and tried to be the next Steven Spielberg, but now someone may actually be Steven Spielberg… as a teen boy, that is. According to multiple sources, Spielberg is working on his post-West Side Story movie project, a story rooted in his childhood that he wrote Tony Kushner, a frequent collaborator with whom he worked on films such as Munich and Lincoln, and will direct.

With Mother’s Day fast approaching, Mrs Hinch has found the perfect way to show our mums some love in lockdown, with a bargain beauty gift that can be posted straight through their door. Jumping on her Instagram stories, the star, whose real name is Sophie Hinchliffe, shared her amazement when she purchased Garnier’s Sheet Mask Discovery Collection, £9.05 here, and discovered that each mask could fit perfectly into a Mother’s Day card.

Even though it’s moving at a slower pace than many would like, the vaccine rollout is starting to gain some traction and in turn, moviegoers are going to start setting foot in theaters — safely of course. That said, the specialty box office space might be hearing some more coin drop into its piggy bank in the forthcoming months. It’s been quite a journey, but we’ll get there slowly yet surely.

“Fresh Off the Boat” was adapted into a network sitcom that he narrated, has also worked as a corporate lawyer, a chef and restaurateur, a clothing designer and a TV host.Now, with his new film “Boogie,” in theaters March 5, Huang is adding director to that list — and it just might be his favorite gig yet. “You get to play with people,” said Huang, who grew up in Orlando and now divides his time between New York, Los Angeles and Taiwan.

Eddie Huang in the final moments of our conversation. The disclaimer is unanticipated if completely unnecessary, considering Huang, a restaurateur-turned-memoirist-turned-culture critic-turned-filmmaker, has been outspoken about what's important to him his entire career, but never solely to provoke.Sure, his reaction to, the ABC series inspired by his memoir about growing up the child of Taiwanese immigrants, caused its fair share of hubbub.

Glasgow lighthouse lab, the UK Health Secretary said was confident travel restrictions would be lifted in time for the summer staycations across the UK.Hancock said: “I’m now more optimistic about having a great British summer than I have been at any time, thanks to the speed and the effectiveness of the vaccine rollout.”“By great British summer I absolutely mean people being able to enjoy travel across the whole of the UK.

Also Read: 'Fresh Off The Boat' Writer Eddie Huang's Basketball Drama 'Boogie' Scores March ReleaseBoogie has transferred to City Prep, whose basketball team he describes as “hot trash,” because he wants to be noticed by college recruiters. He’s gotten some nibbles, but no scholarship offers, and his debt-ridden parents are pushing him to get a free ride on his way to the NBA.