by moxie | Dec 1, 2025 | comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 The story of a North Korean defector trying to find a new life, and perhaps some queer love, in South Korea’s cosmopolitan Seoul. Being an openly-ish gay male in South Korea is a fairly recent thing, and though there are...
by moxie | Nov 28, 2025 | Adventure, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 After clashing with the younger queer generation, proudly open lesbian bar-owner Manok returns to her hometown to face yet more prejudice, and take on her smarmy ex-husband, who is now the equivalent of town mayor. South...
by moxie | Nov 24, 2025 | Action, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, Romance, suspense
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths. Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like...
by moxie | Nov 6, 2025 | comedy, drama, Events, Movies, Romance
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 After he was fired from his paralegal job, Sam takes a job babysitting his psychiatrists’ three granddaughters, and falls for their famous actress mother. A quirky little year-long look at the hidden...
by moxie | Oct 28, 2025 | comedy, drama, Events, Movies, Romance
Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 As her suburban hell life falls apart when her cheating husband asks for a divorce and her scornful college-age daughter brooks no sympathy, Harriet decides to pursue her lifelong dream of...
by moxie | Oct 3, 2025 | Action, Adventure, comedy, drama, Fantasy, Foreign, Historical, Romance, TV Reviews
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rising star chef Yeon Ji-Yeong finds herself cast back in time to the Korean Joseon period, where she is stuck creating fancy cooked dishes for a tyrannical King with the palate of a gourmand. Any true artist wants to create art...
