Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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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 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...
Wondercon 2024 presents Chucky Season 3 Part 2
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Everyone’s favorite Good Guy with a killer secret is back, and this time Chucky and pals are invading the White House! So of course the genius madman behind the franchise that is now Chucky’s world, Don Mancini, was the first to be ushered...