Event Reviews
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SDAFF 2025 : The Rose Come Back to Me
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 An in-depth documentary chronicling the rise of The Rose, from a group busking in the South Korean streets, to a global Indie band sensation. Movie Moxie is a Blink, a big fan of the K-Pop girl group Blackpink, and other South Korean bands besides, but honestly I had only ever heard of The Rose in passing. There was a big scandal a few years ago involving one of The Rose members, which the film addresses, if briefly. But nothing prepared us for...
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SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
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...
SDAFF 2024 New Wave
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...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
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...