I had always intended to watch Charlie Nguyen’s “The Rebel”, but never got around to it. Call it procrastination, call it laziness, call it laundries on Sundays. Whatever the excuse, the result is the same: I’m kicking myself for not having watched the film sooner. Released in 2007, “The Rebel”...

Every bustling city has a forgotten class of people, those that work behind the scenes keeping the machine running. These are also the people that the normal denizens don’t see and don’t want to see. I’m talking about laborers and menial service providers like cab drivers, street cleaners...

It may shock most Americans to realize that, despite their insistence on holding onto the memories of the Vietnam War, that the Vietnamese people has since left that part of their past behind. Or at least, they don’t show the obsession with it that Americans, and the American media in particular,...