Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDIFF 2025 : Silent Rebellion (À bras-le-corps)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 Set in neutral Switzerland in 1943, the story of teenage servant girl Emma, and her private struggles inside her restrictive Protestant community. Despite the beautiful, wide sweeping shots of Swiss mountains and flowering fields, the entire film feels very stifled and boxed-in. Which of course echoes and expounds on the repressed feelings Emma (Lila Gueneau) endures on the daily, the rage and the sorrow and the...
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SDAFF 2022 Ocean City Monster Building
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in 1984, the former Mayor of an upstate New York township is found dead with the body of a young girl also in his car, and his family and friends plus an out-of-town Detective attempt to unravel the mystery. So Sally Lambert (Julie Joy...
SDIFF 2022 Taurus
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Chasing the last days of a rising music star who, while trying to write his next big hit, dives headlong into his own downward spiral of drugs, expectations, and the crushing pressure of super-mega-stardom. So, the lead character Cole is...
SDIFF 2022 Armageddon Time
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in the early 80’s, with roots stemming from director James Gray’s personal history, comes a story of the ties that bind, and gag, family and the generational pursuit of the American dream. Meet Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), artist and...