Event Reviews
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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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SDAFF 2023 Sleep
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A young wife pregnant with her first child becomes terrified by her husbands increasingly odd sleep-walking. This is a very relevant one y’all, for one particular reason – everyone knows what it’s like to have to go without sleep, and what it...
SDAFF 2023 Tiger Stripes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass At the ripe old age of 12, Malay Muslim girl Zaffan is the first in her class to experience physical growth changes, and all the stigma that comes with them. It’s virtually impossible to watch this film, beautifully shot in the Malay jungles...
Comic-con 2023 Twisted Metal screening
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So it’s Thursday night and I have to hoof it from Ghostface’s Killer Trivia all the way to Room 6DE, where the hotly anticipated screening of Twisted Metal is about to pop off! For those of you who may not know, Twisted Metal is a new TV show...