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  Photo credit A24  Gozie Agbo in conjunction with A24 and Leyline productions decided to bless us in 2022 with this intricately written and beautifully directed film by buddies, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.   This aptly titled film which really is about Everything from Family to life in general and has the chaotic feel of Everything happening everywhere at the same time applying the concept of Multiverses coupled with existentialism and stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, Harry Shum Jr from Glee and Jaime Lee Curtis.  Photo credit: A24.  On the surface, Ms. Yeoh plays Evelyn, an incredibly worn out and dissatisfied, Chinese immigrant laundromat owner in her mid-life dealing with her "rebellious" young adult daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu) her timid husband (Ke Huy Quan) and aged ailing father, Gong Gong (James Hong) We get to witness her marriage and relationship with her daughter crumble before her while she tries unsuccessf...

photo credit: Sundance.  “I yelled at him,  You have to start working, if you can’t be happy at least, you can do well.  He screamed at me, I don’t want to be happy, I don’t want to do well.  Why? I yelled. Why? Then we were screaming at each other. We were both so sad and we were afraid. I don’t know why, but then he said,  get out before I hit you, get out before I beat the shit out of you. I swear to God, it was terrifying. I went to my room and then I locked the door. Gail! I wished I had let him. I wish I had said, okay, hit me. You hit me sweetheart for as long as you would ever need. Because then, I would have known. I would have known who he truly was.”  A debut of film writer/director, Fran Kranz released in January 2022 by Bleecker Street, MASS stars Jason Issacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, and Reed Birney as parents who agree to meet at a neutral venue, an episcopalian church, six years after a tragedy involving the murder of the child of one...