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SDIFF 2025 : Aontas
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 When an unlikely trio of women attempt to rob a rural Irish Credit Union, a told-backwards chronology reveals what led to such an inadvisable and desperate act. In this hard-bitten past-regretting look at a small Irish town on the brink of financial ruin, there is no joy to be found anywhere. The town is plagued by funerals, thinly-disguised bad guys in expensive suits, and the womenfolk seemingly left behind after the men have gone are all...
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Moxie’s Top 5 DC Jokers
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Cesar Romero, who played the Joker in the totally zany Batman TV show from the 1960’s, starring Adam West as the titular hero. Romero did it first, among all these other versions of the Joker, you could always tell that Romero was having a...
SDIFF 2023 American Fiction
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Frustrated by the reduction of black authors to base stereotype tropes, writer Monk creates a “black enough” author persona, only to find himself instantly popular for all the wrong reasons! So Thelonius Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) never much...
Wondercon 2024 presents The Spiderwick Chronicles
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2003 book series from Holly Black and Tony DeTerlizzi, Roku Channel presents us with a brand new TV show sendup of The Spiderwick Chronicles! We are graced (sorry for the pun) first with a trailer for the new show, which of course...