I mentioned seeing Joy Ride last month, and two of its lead actresses (Sherry Cola and Stephanie Hsu) showed up in the movie I saw this evening: Shortcomings (2023), a comedy directed by Randall Park. It's about a Japanese-American twenty-something named Ben Tagawa (Justin H. Min), whose world is falling apart. He's kind of a dick, but he has a House (Hausu) poster on his living room wall, so props to him.
Ben is the manager of a (fictional) repertory theater called the Berkeley Arts Cinema, which made me nostalgic for the good old days of the U.C. Theatre before it closed in 2001. Though the theater was fictional, they did film a number of scenes in Berkeley and Oakland, so it was fun seeing so many shots of my usual stomping-grounds on the big screen. But it's a movie, so even though we see the exterior of Pegasus Books in Downtown Berkeley, the interior is of some bookstore I don't know at all, probably in L.A.
Anyway, I enjoyed it.