Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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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 does to you. Some people go manic, some people fall apart, but every last person knows that desperate feeling of just needing to sleep. And it must be restful, REM-fueled, actual sleeepzzz. None of this catching forty winks with...
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SDIFF 2022 presents The Wind and the Reckoning
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a small 19th century colony of Native Hawaiians who refuse to accept government-mandated exile when leprosy breaks out amongst their people and home. Imagine it. You’re a Native Hawai’ian, having lived in and loved the islands...
SDIFF 2022 presents American Murderer
The story of how small-time criminal Jason Derek Brown went from scamming his friends and family out of money, to occupying a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for murder! Meet Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), the big kid in an adults body, charming and glib-tongued...
SDAFF 2022 presents 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...