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Apr 25
1h 3m

Episode #399: 'The Wedding Banquet' with...

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About this episode

We’ve got the fabulous Parvesh Cheena here, once again on the gaysian movie beat! This time around, it’s Andrew Ahn’s THE WEDDING BANQUET, which reimagines and modernizes the core story of a nearly unseeable 1993 Ang Lee film (maybe try your local library?). It’s a complicated relationship comedy between two queer couples, and two of their matriarchs.  Plus, we choose which classic films we’d like to see get a queer remake (besides all of them).

What’s Good
Alonso - TCM Festival
Drea - Drag Race finale, TV as a group activity
Parvesh - More Drag Race
Ify - Temptation Island (see also: Montoya Por Favor)

ITIDIC

  1. SINNERS is the first horror movie to receive an ‘A’ Cinema Score
  2. Wicked’s VOD “Bonus Features” Are Getting Tons of Plays

Staff Picks
Drea - The Half of It
Alonso - Art for Everybody
Parv - A Nice Indian Boy
Ify - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

See Parvesh in Trauma Play at IAMA

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With
Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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