JF Garrard

Mar 5, 2025 | ricepapermagazine.ca | JF Garrard

22 Note – some minor spoilers!Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900) is a movie within the Detective Chinatown movie franchise, and despite jokes on Reddit about having to watch 1899 movies before this one, Detective Chinatown 1900 is the fourth movie in the series. Each movie has two recurring detective characters played by the young actor Liu Haoran and the older actor Wang Baoqiang.

Nov 18, 2024 | ricepapermagazine.ca | JF Garrard

2 On Netflix I tend to watch dark stories, but when an ad popped up for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy I assumed it would be more of the same. I was pleasantly surprised, there is demon hunting in the show, but it’s a wacky comedy with some romance in it. The show’s intriguing plotline moves along and has many funny moments, making it one of the lighter things I’ve watched in 2024.

Jul 21, 2023 | ricepapermagazine.ca | JF Garrard

1 Recently Ricepaper Magazine’s Deputy Editor JF Garrard spoke with Vincent Yee, the author of the Clara Wu YA Fantasy series which was featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show and he is also a judge for the WuKong ABC Story contest with actor Daniel Wu. More details about the contest below which is looking for Asian American/Canadian diaspora YA stories.

May 16, 2023 | jfgarrard.com | JF Garrard