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SDIFF 2025 : Aontas
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 When an unlikely trio of women attempt to rob a rural Irish Credit Union, a told-backwards chronology reveals what led to such an inadvisable and desperate act. In this hard-bitten past-regretting look at a small Irish town on the brink of financial ruin, there is no joy to be found anywhere. The town is plagued by funerals, thinly-disguised bad guys in expensive suits, and the womenfolk seemingly left behind after the men have gone are all...
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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?...
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...