Peter Wong

3 weeks ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong

There’s a special celebratory air to the Summer 2025 film series being offered by the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (hereafter “BAMPFA”), and this is not something to be knocked. The films presented this quarter may not be filled with wall-to-wall joyousness. Homicidal jealousy, alienation, betrayal, and war’s brutality are among the themes filling the frames of these upcoming movies.

3 weeks ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong

Thanks to the mad campaign of the Orange Felon and his right-wing fellow travelers to wipe the existence of the LGBTQ+ community from the average American’s ken, Pride Month celebrations in June 2025 take on a greater political tinge than usual. Fortunately, Hulu’s highlights this month are more than willing to meet the challenge. There are films that take viewers into the worlds of queer rodeo and Georgian dance. Both ABBA jukebox musical movies will get an airing.

1 month ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong

May is still Asian-American Pacific Heritage Month despite the Orange Domestic Terrorist’s efforts to wipe the celebration from public memory. While the better films and tv series on Hulu this month come from Japan and South Korea and don’t feature Asian-American talent, at least their existence shows that Asian pop culture is still welcome in America.

Mar 12, 2025 | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong |Peter Wong

Tired of hearing yet another verbal volley of terrible things being said about Israelis or Palestinians? This Friday, March 14, offers the seeds for a different way of approaching the subject of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A documentary and a “post screening processing space” with a meal offer two spiritually conjoined evening events regarding nonviolent paths to peace over this contentious political friction. The evening begins with a screening of There Is Another Way at the Roxie Theater.

Jan 2, 2025 | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong

Ready to greet 2025 with a loud “Meh?”  Hulu’s January offerings will put you in the mood to do so. Admittedly a couple of the month’s highlights jump easily over the bar set by “Manos: The Hands Of Fate.”  One such highlight is a docuseries about a young attractive Christian mother who blogs about dying from Stage 3 Lymphoma…and who turned out to be a scammer who went to extreme lengths to fake her illness and pump the suckers for lots of money.