Peter Wong

San Francisco

San Francisco native, Beyond Chron film reviewer, and itinerant political activist. Also at Mastodon at @[email protected].

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Hulu's Pride Month Lineup: Queer Cowboys, ABBA Hits, & More

3 days 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.
SF DocFest: 85 Films That Challenge Power and Prejudice

1 week ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong

The documentaries being shown at this year’s San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (hereafter “SF DocFest”) come at a much-needed political time in America. The majority of the Rethuglican Party and more than a few Vichy Democrats have been busily molding their public presentations of truth into whatever best serves to protect the powerful and/or promote prejudice.
Reviews From SF DocFest 2025

1 week ago | beyondchron.org | Peter Wong

Who knew talking about when to use “who” vs. “whom” could be a basis for emotional connection? Yet these and other grammar questions provide the wellspring for repeated conversational magic throughout SF DocFest’s entertaining and educational Opening Night Film, Brandt Johnson’s “Rebel With A Clause.”Grammarian Ellen Jovin began her Grammar Table project on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2018.
What’s Cool On Hulu In May 2025

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.
Netflix’s May Lineup: From Judy Blume Reimagined to ABBA’s 50th Anniversary

1 month ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong

It’s smorgasbord month for May’s Netflix programming. See a reimagining of a frequently attacked (by sexual prudes calling themselves concerned parents) Judy Blume classic. Catch a slice of period Americana from George Lucas and see a restoration of Steven Spielberg’s first feature film.
Reviews From SFFILM 68

1 month ago | beyondchron.org | Peter Wong

Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata’s mid-length film “Two People Exchanging Saliva” has a title that’s more than just a denatured rendering of the 1960s-based slang term “swapping spit.” In Singh and Musteata’s dark fable, there are no live action people exchanging passionate kisses, as doing so is a death sentence (apparently only for the women) in this fictional world. Yet despite these fictional social taboos, it does not mean sexual desire no longer exists.
Can These Documentaries Save Public Libraries and Bat Populations?

1 month ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong

A pair of feature documentaries premiering this week have several things in common. Female filmmakers made both of these films. San Francisco happens to be the stomping grounds for these two films’ directors. Different forms of woman power get celebrated in these films. Most importantly, both films concern subjects endangered in different ways by the depredations of the Orange Felon and his gang of right-wing goons.
Indigenous Activists Fight Corporate Exploitation in 'Water For Life' Documentary

1 month ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong

Even if the rhetorical buzzwords “capitalist exploitation” and “blue gold” are not uttered throughout Will Parrinello’s award-winning documentary Water For Life, the wrongs embodied by those buzzwords are shown so straightforwardly in this film that using the actual terms would be superfluous. Perhaps that’s why PBS (the Public Broadcasting System) might be the best venue for the initial national television broadcast of this film, which takes place on April 21, 2025.
SF Film Fest: 11 Days, 150 Films, 50 Countries – You Ready?

1 month ago | brokeassstuart.com | Peter Wong

The S.F. International Film Festival (hereafter “SFFILM”) may be turning 68 this year, with most of its activities at the Presidio Theatre, the Marina Theatre, and the Premier Theater at One Letterman. But over the 11 days of this year’s run from April 17-27, 2025, the festival will show over 150 films from over 50 countries, which is no mean feat.
"One To One: John & Yoko” & “Sally”-Reviews

1 month ago | beyondchron.org | Peter Wong

Calling the 18-month period when John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in a Greenwich Village apartment eventful would be an exercise in understatement. The time period covered by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ new documentary “One To One: John & Yoko” was marked by the Attica State Prison riot, the first bloom of what would become the Watergate scandal, and President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic Of China.