Kelley Dong

Three Movies From the North Korean Canon Complicate Misconceptions

Spectacle Theater’s ‘Il-Matic for the People’ program ventures into the tenuous boundaries between politics and art

May 24, 2018

“Annihilation” and Alex Garland’s Wrestlings With Asian Bodies

The writer-director’s thriller has been rightly criticized for its whitewashed casting — but such rhetoric has overlooked a crucial performance coup in its climactic sequence

March 16, 2018