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The Taiwanese Lgtb love drama “Your Name Engraved Herein” opens with the popular quotation from The Song of Solomon 8:7 about the power of love that can neither be quenched by water, nor drowned by the floods: “If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, his offer would be viewed with utter contempt.” And the religious reference is in its right place as an introduction to the interesting chapter of the Taiwanese (relatively recent) history marked by political changes, which was at the same time stuck in stubborn conservatism.

“Your Name Engraved Herein” screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival

One of the titular characters – Chang A-Han (Edward Chen), a young student with a despotic father and a strict Catholic upbringing, is faced with many challenges. It’s 1987, shortly after the Martial Law in Taiwan was being lifted, and the wind of change is still blowing very mild over the society.

Eat With Me (2014) Film Review from the 20th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival, a movie directed by David Au, and starring Sharon Omi, Teddy Chen Culver, Nicole Sullivan, George Takei, Aidan Bristow, Ken Narasaki, Scott Keiji Takeda, Burt Grinstead, and Amy Tolsky. Have you ever seen a film that, all things considered, should have earned [...]

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Finally, a wedding we can talk about that doesn’t involve the words Kim and Kardashian: Jason (aka Steve Burton) and Sam (Kelly Monaco) will make it official this month on ABC’s General Hospital. The nuptials will kick off in what we hear is a very unlikely setting beginning Sept. 19.

But the bride isn’t exactly dripping in Neil Lane jewelry in this exclusive photo. Why isn’t she donning the Vera Wang? Is Jason about to offer tickets to the gun show? And is that the officiant in the background or is Teddy Chen Culver just playing a creepy observer?...

DVD Review

Office of the Dead

Directed by: Matthew Chung

Cast: Teddy Chen Culver, Christina July Kim, Shawn Parikh

Running Time: 1 hr, 12 min

Rating: R

Due Out: August 10, 2010

Plot: Life Corp has developed a method for electronically “rewriting” negative thoughts and sending them back into the brain as positive and affirming. Only there’s a minor glitch with the program: it turns its recipients into zombies. Now zombies are running amok in the Life Corp offices and Ben (Culver), Liz (Kim), and Raj (Parikh) have to make it out alive.

Who’S It For? It’s a vanity project for the people who made it. Not even really potent marijuana and a Lazy Susan of munchies can salvage it.

Overall

Office of the Dead was a great idea, but it failed miserably on two equally crucial fronts: 1) zombie movie and 2) corporate parody. It needed to pull off one of those...