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...
by moxie | Nov 17, 2024 | Action, Adventure, comedy, drama, Events, Fantasy, Foreign, Historical, horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense
Kingdom What could be better than a beautifully realized Joseon-period K-Drama, starring the excellent actor Doona Bae, fresh off her grand success in Netflix’s ‘Sense8’? All of that, but with zombies! Oh this is a great one ya’ll. Adapted from a webcomic known as The...
by moxie | Sep 14, 2024 | Action, Adventure, drama, Fantasy, Foreign, Historical, horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense, TV Reviews
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After the daughter of county magistrate is betrayed by those she trusted the most, she takes on a new identity and returns to the capital to mete out her own brand of justice! Quite a bit is said about Jiang Li, the daughter of the...
by moxie | Aug 14, 2023 | Action, drama, Historical, horror, Movies, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Adapted and writ large from the Captain’s Log chapter of Bram Stoker’s magnum opus Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the story of Dracula’s journey by ship from Carpathia to London, and what happened to her crew in the interim. So...
by moxie | May 3, 2023 | Action, Adventure, Cartoon, Comics, drama, Fantasy, Historical, horror, Movies, Sci-Fi, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the comic book of the same name from Mike Mignola and Richard Pace, set atmospherically in 1920’s Gotham City, an ancient evil known as the Lurker on the Threshold awakens and threatens the denizens, and its up to Bruce Wayne and pals...
