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SDAFF 2025 : Project Y
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Two friends tired of their precarious existence in the nighttime life of Gangnam, in South Korea, plan to gather a bunch of money and start a new business elsewhere, only to find themselves embroiled in fixed sports games with high gangster stakes, buried gold treasure, and an uncontrollable mother with her own agenda! This sort of neo-noir thriller has plenty of precedent, but director Hwan Lee keeps us happy with sharper protagonists, a...
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SDIFF 2024 Bob Trevino Likes It
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Inspired by a true story from director Tracie Laymon, after a falling-out with her dad, Lily Trevino makes a connection with another ‘Bob Trevino’ on the internet, and they form a strange and beautiful friendship. Poor Lily Trevino (Barbie...
SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he returns to the French manor house in northern France to be closer to the memory of his late French wife. Based on the...
SDIFF 2024 Conclave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris - when the Pope passes on, the college of Cardinals from all over the world convene in Rome to elect the new Pontiff, as shocking revelations and disturbances from the candidates come...