HIGHLIGHTS
WARNER BROS. MOTHER’S DAY GIVEAWAY
Warner Bros is celebrating moms around the globe with a very special giveaway.
2013 – LGBT BLOGATHON
This year’s YAM Magazine Pride Month celebration continues!
SE HABLA ESPAÑOL
The YAM Magazine Spanish-speaking team is thrilled to open the Spanish version of this online magazine.
YAM’S TOP35 CANCIONES OF THE 90’S
The Spanish-speakers of the YAM Magazine staff voted their favorite Canciones of the 90s.
THE MOVIE GENDER SWITCH PROJECT
Pick a movie and switch the roles.
LATEST NEWS
music videos/Bibi Zhou – Vase with Flowers
Bibi Zhou has alternatively released the music video for Vase with Flowers (花樽與花, Fa Jun Yue Fa in jyutping), which is the Cantonese version of her latest single Close Friend.
[read more]trailers/Koreeda’s Like Father, Like Son Teaser Trailer
There’s our first brief look at Koreeda’s latest film, which will be competing this week at Cannes Film Festival, about a man who has to choose between the boy he raised as his son and his real son.
[read more]trailers/Katsuhiro Otomo’s Short Peace Trailer
A teaser of a whole minute and a half has been released from Otomo’s Short Peace, adding a whole minute of footage to the teaser trailer that was released in March.
[read more]music videos/Bibi Zhou – Close Friend
My favorite Super Girl is back with one good old fashioned album titled Unlock.
[read more]trailers/Cuaron’s Gravity Teaser Trailer
Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi take starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney has released its first official teaser, and it doesn’t disappoint.
[read more]YAM ON
LATEST REVIEWS
Films/Great Gatsby, The (2013)
For all its faults, Baz Luhrmann delivers an entertaining, unsubtle, aesthetically pleasing movie that will be sure to annoy plenty.
[read more]
Films/Kiss of the Damned
Xan Cassavetes’ feature debut is a classy little throwback to the seventies that doesn’t exactly rise from a dead story.
[read more]
Films/Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness is not as entirely original as its predecessor was, but it doesn’t mean it’s any less entertaining.
[read more]
Films/Upstream Color
Shane Carruth delivers a sophomore feature that’s an emotional powerhouse with as much metaphysical prowess as any Malick or Tarkovsky film.
[read more]
Films/Lords of Salem, The
Rob Zombie’s attempt to make a film with truly nightmarish qualities fails with a lame narrative and a poor grip on good surrealism.
[read more]
Films/Letter to Momo, A
An 11-year-old girl moves to her mother’s hometown after the death of her father, and meets three supernatural beings known as Yokai, who will cause her more than one grief during her stay, as she deals with having to let go and moving on.
[read more]
Films/English Teacher, The (2013)
Zisk’s directorial debut has an average story, but a great cast helps it rise above that.
[read more]
Films/Finding Mr. Right (Chinese Film)
A gold-digger with a heart of gold arrives in Seattle to find love… or to give birth to her baby, in China’s latest box office hit with Tang Wei.
[read more]
Music/Bibi Zhou – Unlock
The best element in Unlock is and always will be Bibi’s voice, reaching on-pitch highs and soft delicate whispery lows that will make your soul quiver.
[read more]
Music/CharlieRED – Religion
A blues/hip-hop fusion album that pretty much puts the industry in a euphoric limbo.
[read more]
Music/Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
One of the most brilliant mixtapes to be produced in the last five years.
[read more]
TV/Battlestar Galactica – Season 1-3
Machines, robots turned human, politics, religion and the metaphysics all blend in the revamp of this 1978 show for SyFy.
[read more]
TV/Sherlock – Season 1
The fun of watching Sherlock relies mostly on the interactions between Watson and Holmes, both greatly performed by Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch.
[read more]
TV/Elementary – Season 1
Elementary is an American adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved Sherlock Holmes, developed for long-lasting seasons that CBS hopes to last several seasons so they can drag you for years and years, and they’re doing a decent job at it.
[read more]
Books/Orphan Master’s Son, The
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction is a good but not exemplary drama of shifting views and identities in North Korea.
[read more]
Books/Monster Calls, A
Readers of all ages can appreciate this heartrending story of loss and monsters.
[read more]
Books/Little Star (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
It begins with a baby found in a forest. It ends with a scene of carnage set to the sounds of ABBA.
[read more]
RECENT COMMENTS