Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So our Rookie (Gingle Wang) hasn’t been dead terribly long as other ghosts would describe it, and isn’t terribly familiar with the big business that the haunting and urban legend celebrity ghosts perpetuate. When the offerings at a ghosts grave or shrine begin tapering off and especially if they stop, for any reason or none at all, the ghost in question has 30 days to either obtain an official haunting license, or glitch out of existence, basically forever. And for...
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SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of their own around the super-popular New Wave music movement, and half a biographical journey of filmmaker Elizabeth Ai’s...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers who, determined to meet up after the war with the Japanese is over, endure all sorts of...
SDAFF 2024 All We Imagine As Light
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the lonely, crowded city of Mumbai, a pair of female Nurse roommates struggle with repressed desires, societal expectations, and the eternal weight of reality that crushes human dreams. So Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) are...