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It’s been nearly 11 years since I wrote the small piece on The Year of Asian, celebrating Yojiro Takita’s Okuribito snatching the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Slumdog Millionaire sweeping award season...
Like any year, the YAM Magazine team got together (on our very secret Facebook group) and did our usual round of voting, movies went up and down and we managed to make a clean Top30 list.
Tusks were out, discussions on distribution dates were put on the table, and some hard lobbying was done to put our favorites forward to battle it out. As a result, though local movie distribution is still king, we have some very awesome titles sprinkled here and there for everyone’s taste.
Jenko and Schmidt go undercover as college students and try to locate the supplier of a drug that killed a student photographed buying it on campus.
I gotta admit, I had to work extra hard to make the categories fit with the films this year.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are back as old-ass students for 22 Jump Street, the sequel to 2012’s 21 Jump Street.
Michael Bay may have finally made a fun and self-aware film, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still stuffed full of tasteless comedy.
I won’t deny it. Watching Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was an experience.
Kim Jee-woon’s American debut isn’t nearly as entertaining and over the top as his Korean films, but it still makes for a fun comeback for Arnold.
The week we had the announcement of the 2013 Academy Awards nominations, and with them came the snubs. Like Leonardo DiCaprio, who must be used to this by now.
