DUMPLING Magazine

Friday Features, Sept. 28, 2012

Hiatus who? What now? Dumpling is busy getting its dumplings in a row, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the fans of Friday Features. In this week’s new release Hollywood movie lineup, we take a look at Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s new film, Looper, and explore the animated realms of the ghosts and ghouls in Hotel Transylvania.

Will this week’s Asian-American grade register higher than usual? Find out, as we rate each film on its Asian-American presence, or lack thereof.

Studio:
Sony
Pictures

No. of AA: 0

Rating:  F

Looper

Joseph Gordon-Levitt executes people sent blindfolded back in time for the mob, when he’s asked to off his older self. When the older self escapes, Gordon-Levitt is lead on a chase to uncover this strange occurrence. Asians exist in this world, but none who are American.

Studio:
Sony
Pictures
Animation

No. of AA: 0

Rating:  F

Hotel Transylvania

What does the Count do when he’s not sipping neck juice? Why, run a resort hotel for the baddies and beasties of lore, of course. When a human boy stumbles upon the resort and courts Dracula’s daughter, things get scary. The most ghastly part? No Asian-Americans. 🙁

Studio:
Walden Media

No. of AA: 2

Rating:  C+

Won’t Back Down

Sick and tired and tired and sick of a failing school system lost in a bureaucratic wasteland, a mother and a teacher set out to save their inner-city school system and the children caught in the middle. Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal star.

Studio:
Universal
Studios

No. of AA: 4

Rating:  A

Pitch Perfect

Hana Mae Lee makes a worthy appearance in this free-spirited female comedy about a college girl who finds herself in a musical group full of misfits and social clique butterflies. Expect singing, dancing, Glee comparisons and Bridesmaids alumna Rebel Wilson.

Overall rating this week: B+

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