From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years.It is scheduled to play at the AMC Loews Waterfront and Cinemark in Robinson, and tickets are available online.
8:00 PM - 11:00 PMJ to K-Pop Dance PartyIMYOONOTYOU, AUXIE MORONStating off the Night we have Auxie mixing hit J-pop hits, Anime Openings and songs from some of your favorite games. Afterwards we have the Main event with IMYOONOTYOU throwing down the best K-pop dance hits. With a full dance floor to use, there is plenty of space to break out every choreographed move from your favorite songs.11:00 PM - 2:00 AMAnime Con Style Rave64BITT, IMYOONOTYOU, AUXIE MORONMiss the cons and want an excuse to cosplay? We are giving you an afterparty that will make you keep you on your feet all night long. With IMYOONOTYOU mixing out of his style and giving you a Kpop remix/Club House mix, Auxie Moron giving you that classic happy hardcore/nightcore/techno dance heavy music and 64bitt dropping Dubstep heaters, it's a multi-genre night you can't miss.
Doors open at 7:30 for the 21+ show. Tickets are available online. The Squirrel Hill Sports Bar is located at 5832 Forward Ave. (map).
Set in the year 20XX, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL follows the story of Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman volunteering to help rebuild Japan after the mysterious appearance of a massive alien flower known as “Darol.” When Darol unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.It is scheduled to play locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront and the Cinemark theater in Robinson from the 15th through 21st, and tickets are available online. It was also recently added to the newly-renovated Row House Hollywood in Dormont from the 16th through 22nd, and tickets for *those* are available on the Row House's website.
Asian American Psycho: A Graphic Novel explores the outer limits of the U.S. fantasies of the Asian femme, from fetishized, exotic object to model minority subject. In dialogue with Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991) and its satirical portrait of the Wall Street financier as a monster of capitalism, Asian American Psycho follows another monstrous figuration to gory ends. The narrative stars a medical student turned gig worker, who embodies both laborer and human commodity, as she sells the idea of herself to feed the repressed desires of the West that have been projected onto the Asian Other.
Respondents include Maggie Beeler from the Classics department + Mila Zuo, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, University of British Columbia. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer. Precirculated material for this colloquium are available here.
