Tagged: year: 2015
The Year of Asian 2.0: Hallyu and More
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...
Top30 Film Discoveries of 2019
These are some of my favorite new-to-me films watched throughout 2019.
Family Guy: What Makes It a Huge Success?
Already running for 16 seasons, this animated American sitcom is widely touted as the most watched broadcast comedy among young men.
Beginner’s Guide to Mamamoo
To celebrate Mamamoo’s 2018 Four Season Four Colors project, I have decided to put together the ultimate guide to Mamamoo. This is called Beginner’s Guide to Mamamoo, but it’s really the Beginner’s Guide to Being a Moomoo.
YAM Magazine’s Marvel Cinematic Universe Films Ranked
With a little help of our in-house geek, a bunch of the YAMMag team dusted off their lists to rank our favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe films from 2008’s Iron Man all the way to Black Panther, in celebration of the decade-long MCU and the release for Avengers: Infinity War.
Diandra’s 2017 in New Music
Though the years seem to take away more and more of my energy and ability to write, I still want to share the new music I encountered in 2017. Whether you want a new dance rhythm or something to sing along to, or just want to forget life and become sound, I hope you find something new to like!
Favorite Recent Rom-Coms
Romantic comedies are some of the staff’s weakness; often maligned with the tag of “chick flicks,” but nothing beats the fluttery feeling of watching a good rom-com. So we took a look at some of our favorite recent (2010-onward) samples from the genre.
Clarence Clarity – No Now
An exceptionally smart and emotional piece of music from Clarence Clarity, an artist yet to be given his proper due.
Khalil Fong – JTW Journey To The West
Although his Western heritage has always played a big part in his music, Asian-American singer-songwriter Khalil Fong has never made his penchant for East-meets-West fusion as clear as he has with his latest album Journey to the West; inspired by the classic Chinese tale.