Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDIFF 2024 Nightbitch
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman who put her career on hold to become a first-time stay-at-home-Mom finds her smaller world taking an almost supernatural turn. This is an odd one ya’ll. The film is touted as a body-horror dark comedy, but struggles to find a role, a category, a niche which it fits into neatly and properly that can tell a potential viewer why they want to watch this movie. Which is actually perfect for Nightbitch anyway, for our nameless protagonist Mother is also struggling...
Previous featured Events
SDAFF 2017 presents ‘The Valley’: The true worth of a pearl lies within
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Saila Kariat Studio: Wavefront Productions Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Neal Kumar (Alyy Khan) thought he had worked hard enough to make a perfect world for his wife Roopa and daughters, Monica (Salma Khan) and Maya. They have the...
San Diego Film Week presents ‘A Life Lived’: For Love or Money?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Riley Wood Studio: Not A Camel Productions Review Rating: 8 out of 10 The journey of a single dollar bill and the lives it affects, inadvertently and directly, along the way. We as collective humans have more in common with...
SDIFF 2016 presents ‘Pushing Dead’: It’s only funny if it’s NOT you
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Tom E. Brown Studio: Bugsby Pictures Review Rating: 7 out of 10 When an HIV-positive man makes a tiny banking error that abruptly closes off his financial aid, suddenly he is forced to deal with a snail-like bureaucracy or somehow...