Before we get any further, I'm going to just say it now - you need to see this movie. Ping Pong Playa is absolutely frickin' hilarious. I stumbled upon it and laughed my ass off from start to finish, ...

Every once in a few film festivals I find that rare gem that goes unnoticed in the mainstream movie world yet instantly becomes one of my all-time favorites. This year it was Jessica Yu's Ping Pong ...

It's hard to imagine a more dramatic departure from Jessica Yu's impressive (and Oscar-winning) docu work than "Ping Pong Playa," a good, clean, fun comedy that uses a table tennis championship to ...

Jessica Yu, an Oscar-winning filmmaker known for her serious documentaries, decided to take a chance for her first feature film. She ventured to make a comedy about ping pong. And she invested her ...

With the sport being table tennis, of course, the tournament isn’t exactly the last five minutes of “Rocky.” But when the characters are this charming and the dialogue is this smart, you won’t mind ...

Before moving on to the fall roundup of studio stories about football glory, take time out for this sweetly charming and very funny micro-budget movie about tribulation and triumph on the pingpong ...

A few years ago, the indie circuit was shaken by a little-known, cheap independent film about a know-it-all spaz named Napoleon Dynamite. That film went on to score a major fan base thanks to MTV and ...

There's a saying in sports: Don't hate the player, hate the game. In Jessica Yu's comedy "Ping Pong Playa," C-Dub, who wants to be the first Chinese American player in the NBA (he practices by dunking ...

The film coyly announces itself as a character comedy of indie pedigree in its first act, as C-dub advises his eleven-year old friend Felix that “unless you want to become the Chinese Napoleon ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Oscar-winning documentarian Jessica Yu's narrative debut upends any highbrow expectations created by her intense nonfiction films. By Justin Lowe, The Associated Press San Francisco ...

After a string of documentaries, including In the Realms of the Unreal, and an Academy Award win for Best Documentary Short, Jessica Yu makes an unlikely, deceptively slight narrative feature debut ...