by moviemoxie | Mar 30, 2022 | Action, Adventure, comedy, Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Struggling L.A. Indian-born actor Omi Vaidya lands a starring role in the Bollywood film 3 Idiots and subsequently becomes famous! I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, given the word Bollywood in the title and all. I have seen some of their...
by moviemoxie | Mar 30, 2022 | Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A documentary of the life and work of Sushi Master Jiro Ono, his restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro, and his heir and son Yoshikazu. You don’t have to be in love with sushi to enjoy the movie, but it would really help if you had a clear appreciation...
by moviemoxie | Mar 25, 2022 | Documentary, drama, Events, Historical, horror, Movies
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6 Jesus is a young man attempting to find the Priest who abused him as an altar boy at 11, and gain some measure of closure. I don’t want to be mean, but I fail to see the point of this movie. It wasn’t closure, Jesus didn’t actually...
by moviemoxie | Mar 25, 2022 | Adventure, comedy, Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Independent, Movies, Music, Romance
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6.5 Using the diversity now available in Mexican music as a framework, everything from traditional Mariachi to up-and-coming rap, the documentary approaches contemporary Mexican culture and modern and lasting issues. The whole of the...
by moviemoxie | Mar 25, 2022 | Action, Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, horror, Movies
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6.5/10 The story of the files kept on suspected “government subversives” by the Puerto Rico police department in the late 1980’s and how they affected the lives of the people, then and now. Frankly, I was disappointed. I read the...
by moviemoxie | Mar 14, 2022 | Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 In Indonesia, the worlds’ most populous Muslim nation, are transgender men living as woman known as Waria, and these are some of their stories. I had never heard of the Waria, but given the intro I read and the emphasis placed...
