Event Reviews
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SDAFF 2025 : No Other Choice
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 After being laid off from the paper company he worked at for many years, a desperate family man comes up with a unique solution to obtaining a new job - literally eliminating the competition. The film is based on the American novel The Ax by Donald Westlake. This sordid tale comes from director Park Chan-wook, famous for epics like Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Snowpiercer and many more, and stars the Front Man fresh from his success in Squid Game...
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Moxie’s Top 5 Japanese Horror Movies
Ringu Way back in the 90’s, a sudden film spawned a popular film franchise, triggered a Western popularization of Japanese Horror, and started a renaissance of Japanese Horror, all with a single film – Ringu. Based on a series of novels written by Koji Suzuki, the...
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...