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SDIFF 2025 : Magic Hour
Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 As her suburban hell life falls apart when her cheating husband asks for a divorce and her scornful college-age daughter brooks no sympathy, Harriet decides to pursue her lifelong dream of movie-making and goes back to film school. The magic and wonder, and yes, the frustrations and tons of issues that come with making a film, whether it’s a 5-minute commercial, a 20-minute short film, or a feature-length...
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SDIFF 2022 American Murderer
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 Detectives vs. Sleuths
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 Dotty and Soul
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?...