by moxie | Jun 4, 2025 | Action, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, suspense, Uncategorized
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the third installment of the Baby Assassins series, teenage hitpeople Chisato and Mahiro visit the coastal town of Miyazaki, on a combination mission and vacation, when they encounter a fellow bloodthirsty assassin as a new...
by moxie | May 8, 2025 | drama, Events, Movies, Romance
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make ends meet for his struggling family. So when we meet Lucky (Terry Chen), he’s already or more accurately still in...
by moxie | May 5, 2025 | drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Musical, Romance
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | Action, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, suspense
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...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Independent, Movies
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...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | Action, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Movies, Romance
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...
