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Umma

directed by Iris K. Shim, 2022

#Umma #Iris K. Shim #movie mosaics #Sandra Oh #Fivel Stewart #MeeWha Alana Lee #Tom Yi #Dermot Mulroney

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Ken Jeong Drama ‘Great Divide’ Tackles Anti-Asian Racism Of Covid Era

Great Divide, which explores the wave of anti-Asian racism that sprang up in the wake of Covid, has wrapped principal photography on location in Jackson, WY.

The film, about a Korean American family that leaves the Bay Area for the rural expanses of Wyoming in the early days of lockdown, features Emerson Min as Benjamin Lee, a young boy struggling with the trauma of loss during the pandemic.

Ken Jeong and Jae Suh Park play Isaac and Jenna Lee, Benjamin’s parents, each of whom has a different agendas for their move to Wyoming — Isaac has a new job, Jenna wants to ensure that Benjamin gets into the college of her choice. MeeWha Alana Lee plays Grandma Shim, Jenna’s mother, who has an important lesson to impart to her beloved grandson and a lifetime of memories to share with him before it’s too late. Miya Cech is Ellie Licht, Benjamin’s best friend and maybe more, a Chinese adoptee whose protective parents have shielded her from the darker sides of the world.

Meanwhile, the less-than-welcoming residents of small-town Wyoming include West Mulholland as Hunter Drake, a young potential classmate of Benjamin’s who begins as a bully but ends up warming to Benjamin and Ellie. Seamus Dever plays Ranger Tom Drake, Hunter’s brutal father, who plots with Wyatt (Marshall Allman) to drive the Lees out of town. And Jamie McShane is George McNather, the last surviving descendant of the town’s founding family, a generous benefactor to “his” people and a deeply suspicious and hostile nemesis to those from the “outside.”

(via Deadline)

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[adamwatchesmovies]

Umma (2022)

Umma had the ingredients to make a great ghost movie. It almost gets there but ultimately, it isn’t scary or original enough. That said, the film isn't terrible, which leaves it somewhere in the middle and destined to be forgotten.

Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her homeschooled daughter Chrissy “Chris” live on their rural farm without modern technology - being around electricity gives the mother an “allergic reaction”. When Amanda receives the cremated ashes and last possessions of her estranged Umma (mother), her abusive childhood comes back to haunt her.

Written and directed by Iris K. Shim (her first full-length effort), the film shows promise at first. Amanda was punished via electric shocks by her Umma as a child. As an adult, she shuns everything electrical. No light bulbs automatically mean the nights will be darker, the attics more threatening, etc. It means there are no phones to call for help, and no way to easily escape the situation via car either. Amanda was abused as a child, she’s sworn to never become like her mother but she’s so sheltered, so afraid of everything she can’t let go of Chrissy. This fear threatens to turn her into a control freak, and the more we learn about Umma, the more we see that they are, in fact, quite similar. Amanda’s already slightly-unhinged nature also makes her doubly dangerous. It would be quite easy for Umma to possess her daughter and “get away with it”. There are some relatable, very human themes here that are expanded into becoming horrific, which is a step in the right direction.

All that solid groundwork unfortunately doesn’t pay off. For instance, we know Umma’s ghost is real. We never question whether Amanda has simply gone off the deep end. Worse is the lack of tension or of scares. While watching, I kept thinking of Hereditary, of how nightmarish it was, and how peaceful this is in comparison. Shim can’t quite make up her mind about Umma. Electrocuting your daughter as a punishment is monstrous. I’d even say it’s unforgivable, which should make for great drama. How could Amanda make peace with her Umma, particularly when the wicked old woman is returning from the grave to torment her? The resolution isn’t satisfactory. It’s not believable either, not considering the trauma Amanda is still feeling in the present. Other aspects of the film don’t pay off either. There’s the recurring image of a nine-tailed fox but it doesn’t bring anything to the story. Considering the special effects used to create it are “fine” at best, it really should’ve been edited out.

You want to like Umma because Sandra Oh is really good in her role. It's odd how the picture can get certain things so right, and others so wrong. Umma keeps its cast small so that you can get attached to all of the characters, the themes it brings forward are relatable and rich with potential. And then… nothing. The film isn’t scary and ultimately, Umma feels way too familiar. (May 15, 2022)

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Umma (2022)

In today's review, I find that shockingly scary details can lie in our pasts. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2022 horror film, Umma #SandraOh #FivelStewart #DermotMulroney #OdeyaRush #MeeWhaAlanaLee #TomYi

Culture and identity are curious things, they will never truly leave us, despite how much we would like. Some end up embracing these qualities, many times to the extremes, while others seek far-off lands to start afresh, even as the spirit and memories remain. In 2022, the horror of trying to live with the trauma of your past manifested in some spooky ways, in the film Umma. Sandra Oh leads this…

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Umma (2022) Review

Amanda and her daughter Chrissy live a very quiet life on an American farm but everything is about to be turned upside down when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

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Umma (2022)

Umma by #IrisKShim starring #SandraOh, "a familiar exercise that will exit your brain as soon as the first credits role", Now reviewed on MyOldAddiction.com

IRIS K. SHIM Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5 USA, 2022. Catchlight Studios, Raimi Productions, Stage 6 Films, Starlight Media. Screenplay by Iris K. Shim. Cinematography by Matt Flannery. Produced by Zainab Azizi, Sam Raimi. Music by Roque Baños. Production Design by Yong Ok Lee. Costume Design by Leah Butler. Film Editing by Louis Cioffi, Kevin Greutert. The tensions and traumas of motherhood,…

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UMMA (2022) ★★✭☆☆

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UMMA (2022)

Starring Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, Tom Yi, MeeWha Alana Lee, Danielle K. Golden, Hana Marie Kim and Mark Kirksey.

Screenplay by Iris K. Shim.

Directed by Iris K. Shim.

Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. 83 minutes. Rated PG-13.

With the likes of Snowpiercer, Okja, The Host, Oldboy and particularly the Oscar-winning Parasite, Korean film (and filmmakers) have been on quite a roll in the last couple of decades. Umma (which is the Korean word for mom) is not exactly a Korean film, however its storyline and background very much revolves around Korean life and traditions.

The film takes place in the United States. Its director is a Korean American who is making her feature film debut. (She had previously directed the full-length documentary The House of Suh.) Star Sandra Oh is also of Korean ancestry, although she was born in Canada and has lived in the US for much of her life. The only other actor who is really known in the film is Dermot Mulroney, who is obviously also not Korean. It was produced by American horror-comic film director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange at the Multiverse of Madness).

Umma is a ghost story – sort of – and yet it is trying for much deeper resonances. It doesn’t always reach them… in fact it usually doesn’t, really… but it is trying to be a little deeper than the average scare film.

I have to say right off the bat that Oh, who is best known for Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve – does a fantastic job in her role, even if it does not always live up to her work.

She plays Amanda, an obviously neurotic beekeeper (yes, you read that right…) who lives on a sprawling farm in the middle of nowhere. Due to some very obscure illness, Amanda becomes violently ill when she is exposed to any kind of electricity (huh?) and thus never leaves the farm, which is completely off the grid. (No electrical appliances, all lamps are flame-based, no cars, no cell phones…) From the very beginning, this malady seems odd, and even though it is eventually explained away in the script, it still doesn’t make much sense.

Amanda’s daughter Chrissy (Fivel Stewart) is home-schooled but reaching college age and considering going off to school. Even though she is sweet and pretty, she has no real friends other than her mother (with whom she is very, very close) and is considered a bit of an oddball by most of the locals due to their spartan lifestyle. Unlike her mother, Chrissy is not afraid to venture into town – in fact she enjoys it – and while she is mostly happy in her life, she is interested in seeing more of the world as well.

The supernatural invades their little plot of the world when a strange man shows up at the farm. It turns out that he is the brother of Amanda’s long-estranged mother. Umma has died, and her last wishes were that her daughter perform a Korean ceremony to pass her into the next realm.

However, there is a dark, secret past between Amanda and her mother and Amanda refuses to abide by her wishes. Amanda feels that she was a cold, judgmental and evil mother – she has done all in her power to be a different kind of mother for Chrissy – so she just avoids doing it. Until suddenly she starts seeing – or imagining she sees – her mother in the farm and in the fields.

And that is basically where Umma falls apart somewhat – and this is coming from someone who is a sucker for ghost stories. It starts to rely on somewhat cliched horror tropes and jump scares, and it loses much of the eccentric energy it had to start.

Umma’s world is a quiet, insular, desolate, paranoid world. In fact, only six actors are listed in the end credits of the film, although there are another 5-10 uncredited extras that pop up periodically in the film, mostly in the early scenes – none of whom have any dialogue, I believe.

Umma had the potential to be a fascinating and creepy look at lives and culture, but it never quite reaches that potential.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2022 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: May 24, 2022.

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UMMA, 2022

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2022 Horror Challenge: [22/?]

↳ “There's no point in talking to you if you're gonna act like this.”

“Like what?”

“A psycho bitch.” Umma (2022) dir. Iris K. Shim

Plot: Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

Starring: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi

Final catch-up review for the night. I still have to write one for Nope but I wanna rewatch it before I do. Now this one... I’m ngl it’s a blank to me for the most part cuz it feels like I watched it so long ago when it’s only been a few months. All I know is that I remember not liking this. I remember going in wanting to because Sandra Oh is such a good actress and I do think she did what she could with this. And Fivel (a familiar face from Atypical on Netflix) was on her level imo and I liked the angle being on their mother/daughter relationship cuz that’s always relatable. But I remember this just not having the tension needed for horror movies. And ugh, the lame jumpscares. Any movie that relies on them too much is never gonna get my vote because it’s cheap. Sad to say cuz I had been excited to see Sandra shine in a horror movie, but that majorly bad rating on IMDB is definitely warranted. Could have been so much better.

#umma #horrorchallenge2022

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Umma (2022)

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Umma will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 24 via Sony. The 2022 horror film is currently available on VOD.

Iris K. Shim writes and directs, making her feature debut. Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, MeeWha Alana Lee, Tom Yi, Odeya Rush, and Dermot Mulroney star. Sam Raimi produces.

Special features are not listed. The trailer and synopsis can be found below.

Umma, which is the Korean word for "mother," follows Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.

Pre-order Umma.

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UMMA Red Carpet Interviews: Iris K. Shim, Celia Au, Nicole Kang, and @SeanDoesMagic

UMMA Red Carpet Interviews: Iris K. Shim, Celia Au, Nicole Kang, and @SeanDoesMagic

In the celebration of the Sam Raimi-produced supernatural horror thriller UMMA. which arrives exclusively in theaters March 18th, 2022, I recently had the opportunity to cover the special screening’s red carpet where I interviewed the writer/director of this new film Iris K. Shim, along with some of my favorite talents in the Asian American community including my favorite YouTuber/magician…

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Drama  Horror  Mystery

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