Joan Chen

I think it's from the 90s.

The Blood of Heroes, Joan Chen and Rutger Hauer.

Great choice.

Great choice.

but this time, as James may have hinted there, we are going to be talking about Judge Dredd, which is an, uh, a series from 2000 AD comics, and we'll, maybe we'll talk a little bit more about that.

So we'll talk about the comics just a little bit, and then we will also talk about the 1995 movie with Sylvester Stallone and Diane Lane and Jurgen Prochnow and Armand Assante and surprise Joan Chen.

[laughs] Yes.

Um, and then we'll talk about the 2012 movie with Karl Urban and Olivia Philby? Thurby.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then, and then Agent Hershey is, or Judge Hershey is fighting it out with surprise Joan Chen, and-

Right.

I'm going with the feral subtype.

I'm taking Joan Chen from Salute of the Juggers slash Blood of Heroes.

Just a wily little fucking murderous lunatic in that movie.

If anybody hasn't seen that movie, I love that movie.

Go watch that movie.

Underrated.

I haven't, but I like a Joan Chen.

Super hot young Vincent D'Onofrio in there.

fantastic film about a bodybuilder starting to, you know, discover or rediscover his queer sexuality.

And Montreal, My Beautiful, which is starring Joan Chen, who people might know from like Twin Peaks or Saving Face.

She's really, really good in this film, playing like this mother who's stuck in this marriage with a husband who's just really upset that he can't get work in, you know, in Montreal.

And meanwhile, she's taking these language classes.

I don't think you're going to have that problem with Jim Queen, which is an excellent pick.

Celeste, you already told us, obviously, about some of the great films in the program.

Anything with Joan Chen in it is always definitely one to check out.

But is there any hidden gems in there that you really want to highlight to people that might not be as obvious?

Will must juggle keeping her lesbian relationship hidden whilst also trying to find her mother a suitable Chinese bachelor to marry.

Tackling cultural expectation and generational divides, Saving Face is a feel-good queer story starring Michelle Krusek, nominated as Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Awards Film Festival for her performance in this film, Joan Chen from Twin Peaks, and Lin Chen.

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Special features and technical specs include a 1080p high definition presentation on Blu-ray, an audio commentary by director Alice Wu, deleted scenes with optional commentary by director Alice Wu, behind the scenes featurette, Sundance Diary featurette, aspect ratio of 178 to 1, audio DTS HD 5.1 surround and LPCM 2.0 stereo and optional English subtitles.

But it also has the twist that her mother is pregnant and she needs to find a bachelor for her mother.

but but she also has this big secret about herself that it is um quite it's hard to for any gay child out there in the world it is difficult to explain to your parents who you really you are as a person and it is tough but i can but yeah i'm looking forward to seeing this movie it does look it does sound like a tearjerker i have to say but but it does sound like a good one john have you seen saving face

no i haven't and um yeah like i said just based on the the cast and crew it seems like a yeah a great sort of coming of age type story and obviously you know chinese american type tale gives you vibes of like an angley type film which is interesting so i'm i'm looking forward to seeing especially with the cast as well um with joan chen which is uh you know if you know if you're a twin peaks fan or also um uh yeah last emperor you know many amazing films as well so Yeah, I'm intrigued.

It's one I never really come across, so it's great.

Foxy Lady.

Joan Chen.

From Twin Peaks.

Also Foxy.

[laughs] It's all tactical, right? Uh, Wong Chen is gonna leave.

I take away his parliamentary allocation, right? Chen Chong, PJ, uh, you know, MP probably going to leave as well.

I take away his parliamentary allocation.

Rosnah Ampang maybe leaving.