Event Reviews
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SDIFF 2022 presents ‘The Wind and the Reckoning’: Send in the Night Marchers!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a small 19th century colony of Native Hawaiians who refuse to accept government-mandated exile when leprosy breaks out amongst their people and home. Imagine it. You’re a Native Hawai’ian, having lived in and loved the islands your whole life, content with your family and the bountiful giving land, a happy subject of the Hawai’ian kingdom under Queen Lili’uokalani. Then suddenly in 1893 (when the film is set) the monarchy is overthrown, the Hawai’ian...
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SDIFF 2022 presents ‘American Murderer’: Catch me if you can!
The story of how small-time criminal Jason Derek Brown went from scamming his friends and family out of money, to occupying a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for murder! Meet Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), the big kid in an adults body, charming and glib-tongued...
SDAFF 2022 presents ‘Detectives vs. Sleuths’: The sins of our parents
Hong Kong is plagued by a series of terrible murders, of former suspects in cold cases who’ve evaded capture for years, by a vigilante gang calling themselves the Chosen Sleuths. In order to tell a whole entire story that includes new generations of detectives and...
SDIFF 2022 presents ‘Dotty and Soul’: Who’s the real boss here?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a cancelled Halloween costume scandal, Jewish entrepreneur Ethan Cox decides to try a Trading Places-like attempt at saving his career with Dotty, the charming black lady who sells snacks at his mothers’ hospital! Who does that anymore?...