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Its current Rotten Tomatoes score is 96%, some have dubbed it the most important step forward in film in decades, and it’s all anyone can talk about. Yet talking about Everything Everywhere All at Once is difficult as it’s nearly impossible to explain or sum up.

In Photoplay magazine of July-December 1924, an article by A. Chester Keel appeared entitled “The Fiasco of Ben Hur.

Credited with paving the way for Asian actors in Hollywood, Chinese Icon Nancy Kwan, who turns 83 on May 19, nevertheless made most of her later films outside of America. Born in Hong Kong to a Cantonese architect father and a British-Scottish model mother, Nancy Kwan studied ballet from a young age.

John Woo was born on May 1, 1946, in Guangzhou, Republic of China, during the Chinese Civil War into a Christian family. They faced persecution after the communist revolution and fled to Hong Kong when he was five years old.

Pam & Tommy, starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan, the much-awaited Hulu series directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, Cruella), explores the relationship between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee and is an account of their stormy courtship and paparazzi-plagued marriage. The first celebrity couple to fall victim to a sex-tape scandal, the series chronicles the circumstances leading up to the shooting of the video on their honeymoon, and its aftermath following the theft of the tape and illegal distribution to the public.

Alicia Silverstone stars in three new films this year – the terror/adventure The Requin (on Amazon), the comedy Senior Year and soon, the crime drama Reptile. Some time ago, the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press interviewed her twice, in 1997: when she was 20 years old, about playing Batgirl in Batman & Robin directed by Joel Schumacher – with George Clooney as Batman and Chris O’Donnell as Robin –  and when she had produced, through her company, First Kiss Productions, the romantic comedy Excess Baggage in which she acted opposite Benicio del Toro.

Pacific Islander actress Frankie Adams will be playing next to Sigourney Weaver and Alycia Dednam-Carey in the adaptation of Holly Ringland’s debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. The seven-part series follows a young woman named Alice, who moves to live with her grandmother after a family tragedy and whose adult life is highly affected by a violent past.

Breaking into Hollywood is challenging enough for a woman, much more if you are Asian, colored, or minority female. But pioneering Asian women in Hollywood broke the ceiling and opened the doors for other Asian actresses to come in.

Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård returns to his Viking roots as Prince Amleth in the long-awaited drama, The Northman, where he takes on double duty as star and producer. Helmed by writer-director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse), who co-wrote the script with longtime Bjork collaborator and Golden Globe nominee Sjon, this project is about the legend of Viking prince Amleth (the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet), who sets out to avenge his father’s murder.