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Do We Want This - September 2025

September 26, 2025·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Good Boy is a horror movie starring a dog named Indy.

1. Good Pop | Culture Club frames September 2025 as a monthly Asian-American entertainment news roundup under the title “Do We Want This.” 2. Marvin Yuan hosts with Jess and Hon, and they matter because both steer the pop-culture discussion while Marvin anchors the episode’s news roundup. 3. The episode asks whether the month’s Asian-American entertainment headlines, screenings, and new releases actually feel worth caring about. 4. Jess starts with a 25th-anniversary screening of Saving Face at Vidiots, where Alice Wu, Michelle Krusick, and Lin Chen joined a talkback. 5. She says the screening was sold out and organized with CAPE, the San Diego Film Festival, and the Queer Asian Social Club. 6. Jess describes Saving Face as warm, authentic, funny, heartbreaking, and still “groundbreaking, progressive and revolutionary.” 7. She also notes that Saving Face is now in the Criterion Collection and says she bought the last copy at Vidiots. 8. Jess then talks about her first theatrical viewing of In the Mood for Love, which she saw during a 25th-anniversary re-release. 9. She praises Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, the 1960s Hong Kong setting, and the qipao costumes while calling the movie “a little bit overrated.” 10. Jess and Marvin connect the film to Shanghainese dialogue, mahjong, and the way the movie shaped modern Asian-American visual aesthetics. 11. Hon shifts to Good Boy, a horror movie starring a dog named Indy, who is also the character name. 12. He explains that the film is mostly told from the dog’s point of view, with the humans shown mainly through their legs and waists. 13. Hon says the movie is more psychological than slasher-driven and leans on atmosphere instead of body horror. 14. He also mentions the production pups credit and says the film took three years to make. 15. Marvin’s sports update centers on LAFC, Son Heung-min, and the appeal of having a Korean international soccer star on his team. 16. He also talks about the Chargers, the Chiefs, and the way Taylor Swift football clips and Travis Kelce discourse keep appearing in his TikTok feed. 17. The tone stays conversational and digressive, with Jess and Marvin openly debating In the Mood for Love rather than trying to agree. 18. Hon’s Good Boy segment is more descriptive and interview-like, with direct details about the dog’s expressions and the film’s point of view. 19. Listeners who like Asian-American film talk, awards chatter, and sports banter will get a lot here. 20. Listeners who want one focused topic and no side conversations will probably skip it.

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