The Captain visits Niko Damianos’ house to give notes on his upcoming film. Image Credit: Bell Media. Although RDJ’s newest character Niko Damianos is his most eccentric yet, they all have one thing ...

Note: This story contains spoilers ahead from “The Sympathizer” Episode 4. Sunday’s episode of “The Sympathizer” saw The Captain (Hoa Xuande) go to work as an interpreter on auteur Nikos’ (Robert ...

The Sympathizer is making a movie now. I don’t know how it happened. In last week’s episode of the series, we saw a council of Robert Downey Jr. characters eating sushi off women, barking at hostesses ...

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The story of a communist spy called the Captain (Hoa Xuande)—and his time spent embedded in the South Vietnamese secret police—is adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2015 novel of ...

Vietnamese journalist-turned-filmmaker Phanxinê remembers exactly when he decided to make movies in his native country rather than Hollywood. It was in 2008 but it could have been a satirical scene ...

Television has taught us a lot about Asian history lately, hasn’t it? FX’s Shōgunsent audiences back in time to 17th-century Japan. Netflix’s 3 Body Problembegins during China’s Cultural Revolution.

“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.” So begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer,” which, when released in 2015, was hailed for its humorous, biting ...

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Vietnamese journalist-turned-filmmaker Phanxinê remembers exactly when he decided to make movies in his native country rather than Hollywood. It was in 2008 but it could have been a satirical scene ...