© 2025 Spokane Public Radio.
An NPR member station
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Movies 101

“The Wedding Banquet” & “Eephus”

From left: Actors Han Gi-Chan and Bowen Yang in the 2025 film The Wedding Banquet; actor Keith William Richards in the 2024 film Eephus.
From left: Han Gi-Chan and Bowen Yang in The Wedding Banquet (2025); Keith William Richards in Eephus (2024).

Sometimes you go to the movies to be challenged. Sometimes you go to be educated. Mostly, though, you go to be entertained. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that are, each in its own way, examples of pure entertainment—while, at the same time, offering up other qualities as well. Specifically The Wedding Banquet, writer-director Andrew Ahn’s remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film, and the streaming baseball feature Eephus.

Related Content
  • Movie Reviews
    “Eephus” is an ode to the rituals of baseball, and a strange comedy about male friendship. Nathan Weinbender says the low-budget ensemble film is one of the small jewels of the year.
  • Movie Reviews
    Carson Lund’s film “Eephus” is an ode both to the game of baseball and the everyday players who can’t stop loving it, Dan Webster says.