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SDAFF 2025 : No Other Choice

SDAFF 2025 : No Other Choice

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025  After being laid off from the paper company he worked at for many years, a desperate family man comes up with a unique solution to obtaining a new job - literally eliminating the competition.  The film is based on the American novel The Ax by Donald Westlake. This sordid tale comes from director Park Chan-wook, famous for epics like Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Snowpiercer and many more, and stars the Front Man fresh from his success in Squid Game...

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SDIFF 2022 Dotty and Soul

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?...

SDIFF 2022 Taurus

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...