Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
Current featured Event
SDIFF 2023 presents 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 cared for his name, he prefers to be called Monk, and they never really give a why or where it came from. But the name Thelonius is on every single last book Monk has published, and there has been a few, which of course no one seems...
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SDAFF 2023 presents Concrete Utopia
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a massive earthquake in Seoul causes the destruction of the overcrowded apartment complexes, the last standing facility becomes a battleground for the beleaguered survivors. So, here in real life, South Korea has been experiencing a...
SDAFF 2023 presents 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 presents 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...