Movie Reviews
From 35mm to Super8, from Digital to 3D, be it CGI, green-screen, multiple-exposure or even stop-motion, international, domestic, experimental, controversial, we review it all, with moxie!
SDIFF 2024 presents Nightbitch
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman who put her career on hold to become a first-time stay-at-home-Mom finds her smaller world taking an almost...
SDIFF 2024 presents Bob Trevino Likes It
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Inspired by a true story from director Tracie Laymon, after a falling-out with her dad, Lily Trevino makes a connection...
SDIFF 2024 presents Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he...
SDIFF 2024 presents Conclave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris - when the Pope passes on, the college of Cardinals from all over...
Joker Folie a Deux
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers hidden in clown makeup! Called “the madness of two”, the love story of Joker and Lee, set against the backdrop of...
Smile 2
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After being corrupted by the smile entity curse, global singing sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The death of patriarch Deetz brings everyone back together, tossing in Beetlejuice himself to stir the plot, and some new...
Speak No Evil
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A struggling couple with their young daughter are invited to spend an idyllic weekend at a newly-made friends country...
Alien Romulus
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers lurk in empty space stations too! A gang of space colonists trying to scavenge cryo-sleep pods from a derelict...
Blink Twice
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Tech mogul Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at a fundraising gala, and whisks her and her friend Jess off to...
SDIFF 2023 presents American Fiction
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Frustrated by the reduction of black authors to base stereotype tropes, writer Monk creates a “black enough” author...
Abigail
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A gang of misfit kidnappers find their tiny target far more bloodthirsty than they bargained for! So, unfortunately the...
The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of the rise of Coriolanus Snow, from teenage Capital City pawn to rising Dictator of the Hunger Games and...
SDAFF 2023 presents Concrete Utopia
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a massive earthquake in Seoul causes the destruction of the overcrowded apartment complexes, the last standing...
Dune Part Two
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Welcome back to our struggle for control of the known universe already in progress, the continuation of the journey of Paul...
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Aquaman’s nemesis Manta returns possessed by an ancient evil, with plans to take down both the human world and the Kingdom...
SDAFF 2023 presents Sleep
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A young wife pregnant with her first child becomes terrified by her husbands increasingly odd sleep-walking. This is a very...
SDAFF 2023 presents Tiger Stripes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass At the ripe old age of 12, Malay Muslim girl Zaffan is the first in her class to experience physical growth changes, and...
Saw X
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers preface the Saw universe! Legendary executioner Jigsaw returns to exact revenge on a cadre of scam artists who...
Thanksgiving
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A year after a Black Friday sale riot that resulted in tragedy, the people of Plymouth Mass are terrorized when a killer...