The NCIS cast introduces the father of Agent Jessica Knight during the March 25 episode.
Special Agent in Charge Feng Zhao finally appears, with the powerful man set to share screen time with Dr. Jimmy Palmer.
Jimmy and Jessica have been in a relationship for a while now, all while dealing with the complications of working together.
Investigations are the family business for the Knight family, so Jessica has had a lot to live up to. And Jimmy is keenly aware of this.
The NCIS producers did a great job bringing on someone who could play a strong father figure and command immediate respect.
Feng Zhao is introduced on NCIS Season 21, Episode 5. The episode is called The Plan and debuts on Monday, March 25 at 9/8c.
Who plays Agent Knight’s father on the NCIS cast?
Russell Wong plays Special Agent in Charge Feng Zhao on the NCIS cast.
He might be...
Special Agent in Charge Feng Zhao finally appears, with the powerful man set to share screen time with Dr. Jimmy Palmer.
Jimmy and Jessica have been in a relationship for a while now, all while dealing with the complications of working together.
Investigations are the family business for the Knight family, so Jessica has had a lot to live up to. And Jimmy is keenly aware of this.
The NCIS producers did a great job bringing on someone who could play a strong father figure and command immediate respect.
Feng Zhao is introduced on NCIS Season 21, Episode 5. The episode is called The Plan and debuts on Monday, March 25 at 9/8c.
Who plays Agent Knight’s father on the NCIS cast?
Russell Wong plays Special Agent in Charge Feng Zhao on the NCIS cast.
He might be...
- 3/25/2024
- by Ryan DeVault
- Monsters and Critics
Last month, actor Tom Sizemore passed away from a brain aneurysm at the age of just 61. To pay tribute to him, The Arrow in the Head Show hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance are looking back at a horror film Sizemore starred in back in 1997, The Relic (watch it Here). To find out what they had to say about The Relic, check out the video embedded above.
Directed by Peter Hyams from a screenplay that came from the combined forces of Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, The Relic was based on a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The film has the following synopsis: Come in – if you dare. The opening-night gala for a new exhibit at Chicago’s natural history museum is under way. But be advised: something terrifying wants to make sure no one ever leaves.
Sizemore is joined in the cast by Penelope Ann Miller,...
Directed by Peter Hyams from a screenplay that came from the combined forces of Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, The Relic was based on a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The film has the following synopsis: Come in – if you dare. The opening-night gala for a new exhibit at Chicago’s natural history museum is under way. But be advised: something terrifying wants to make sure no one ever leaves.
Sizemore is joined in the cast by Penelope Ann Miller,...
- 4/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Film review: 'Catfish in Black Bean'
Dwayne and Mai are two grown Vietnamese refugees long separated from their real parents. Raised in the United States by a onetime immigration worker and his wife, who are black and are all one could ever want in foster parents, Dwayne and Mai are in for unexpected problems and resolutions when their past lives are reopened.
Not exactly the "East Meets Soul City" premise it's being marketed as by distributor Black Hawk Entertainment, "Catfish in Black Bean Sauce" is the moderately engaging writing-directing debut of the film's lead actor and producer, Chi Muoi Lo. A native of Vietnam who grew up in Philadelphia, Lo is paired romantically on screen with Sanaa Lathan ("Love and Basketball") as Nina, Dwayne's loving but aloof fiancee.
While some technical aspects of the production are at times subpar, and overall the film desperately needs tightening, Lo's "Catfish" tells a compelling story of one family reforming as another is breaking up, with many cross-cultural tensions and communication problems but with little or no predictable racial cliches.
There's an untidiness to the way the film unfolds that will tax the patience of some viewers, but mostly the film provides meaty dramatic showdowns that the laboring-for-love cast attacks with vigor. Unfortunately, Lo has much to learn when it comes to staging scenes. The camera rarely moves, and many awkward moments result from shots held on actors for too long.
Indeed, Lo the director will occasionally linger on his own shifting visage as Dwayne blankly or nervously reacts to the intense emotional displays going on around him. For most of the movie, Dwayne is a contentious jerk, working successfully as a bank manager and head over heels in love with Nina, but also stubborn, defensive and self-deprecating to a fault.
Dwayne's crisis of identity --he sounds like he's black, and he's shorter than Nina -- causes his big marriage plans to be put on hold. But his world is really shaken up when his sister Mai (Lauren Tom) locates their real mother, Thanh (Kieu Chinh), and the aging Vietnamese widow comes to America. Dwayne and Mai's adoptive parents Harold (Paul Winfield) and Dolores (Mary Alice) hear the news about Mai's successful search with disappointment and soon feel threatened, then abandoned.
Dwayne is not friendly to Thanh and is cold to everyone else, driving the sincerely smitten and commitment-minded Nina away. Mai embraces Thanh and treats the crushed Dolores badly. Peacemaker Harold is fated to have a medical emergency that briefly draws certain parties together.
Lo goes out of his way to include a subplot involving the sexual orientation of Dwayne's roommate Michael (Tyler Christopher). This unfunny riff on "The Crying Game" allows Lo to scrunch up his face with a case of the homophobic willies.
There are quite a few jokes and lines of dialogue that fall flat, but the primary attraction of the film does come through in Lo and Lathan's scenes together, while formidable veterans Alice, Winfield and Chinh serve up tasty performances.
CATFISH IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE
Black Hawk Entertainment
Iron Hill Pictures
Writer-producer-director: Chi Muoi Lo
Co-producer: Stanley Yung
Director of photography: Dean Lent
Production designer: Skyler J.D. Adler
Editor: Dawn Hoggatt
Costume designer: Maral Kalinian
Music: Stanley A. Smith
Casting: Eileen Mack Knight, Meredith Behrend
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dwayne: Chi Muoi Lo
Nina: Sanaa Lathan
Harold Williams: Paul Winfield
Dolores Williams: Mary Alice
Mai: Lauren Tom
Thanh: Kieu Chinh
Michael: Tyler Christopher
Running time - 111 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Not exactly the "East Meets Soul City" premise it's being marketed as by distributor Black Hawk Entertainment, "Catfish in Black Bean Sauce" is the moderately engaging writing-directing debut of the film's lead actor and producer, Chi Muoi Lo. A native of Vietnam who grew up in Philadelphia, Lo is paired romantically on screen with Sanaa Lathan ("Love and Basketball") as Nina, Dwayne's loving but aloof fiancee.
While some technical aspects of the production are at times subpar, and overall the film desperately needs tightening, Lo's "Catfish" tells a compelling story of one family reforming as another is breaking up, with many cross-cultural tensions and communication problems but with little or no predictable racial cliches.
There's an untidiness to the way the film unfolds that will tax the patience of some viewers, but mostly the film provides meaty dramatic showdowns that the laboring-for-love cast attacks with vigor. Unfortunately, Lo has much to learn when it comes to staging scenes. The camera rarely moves, and many awkward moments result from shots held on actors for too long.
Indeed, Lo the director will occasionally linger on his own shifting visage as Dwayne blankly or nervously reacts to the intense emotional displays going on around him. For most of the movie, Dwayne is a contentious jerk, working successfully as a bank manager and head over heels in love with Nina, but also stubborn, defensive and self-deprecating to a fault.
Dwayne's crisis of identity --he sounds like he's black, and he's shorter than Nina -- causes his big marriage plans to be put on hold. But his world is really shaken up when his sister Mai (Lauren Tom) locates their real mother, Thanh (Kieu Chinh), and the aging Vietnamese widow comes to America. Dwayne and Mai's adoptive parents Harold (Paul Winfield) and Dolores (Mary Alice) hear the news about Mai's successful search with disappointment and soon feel threatened, then abandoned.
Dwayne is not friendly to Thanh and is cold to everyone else, driving the sincerely smitten and commitment-minded Nina away. Mai embraces Thanh and treats the crushed Dolores badly. Peacemaker Harold is fated to have a medical emergency that briefly draws certain parties together.
Lo goes out of his way to include a subplot involving the sexual orientation of Dwayne's roommate Michael (Tyler Christopher). This unfunny riff on "The Crying Game" allows Lo to scrunch up his face with a case of the homophobic willies.
There are quite a few jokes and lines of dialogue that fall flat, but the primary attraction of the film does come through in Lo and Lathan's scenes together, while formidable veterans Alice, Winfield and Chinh serve up tasty performances.
CATFISH IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE
Black Hawk Entertainment
Iron Hill Pictures
Writer-producer-director: Chi Muoi Lo
Co-producer: Stanley Yung
Director of photography: Dean Lent
Production designer: Skyler J.D. Adler
Editor: Dawn Hoggatt
Costume designer: Maral Kalinian
Music: Stanley A. Smith
Casting: Eileen Mack Knight, Meredith Behrend
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dwayne: Chi Muoi Lo
Nina: Sanaa Lathan
Harold Williams: Paul Winfield
Dolores Williams: Mary Alice
Mai: Lauren Tom
Thanh: Kieu Chinh
Michael: Tyler Christopher
Running time - 111 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 6/12/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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