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SDAFF 2024 Little Red Sweet
The legacy of a family-owned sweet soup shop in the back alleyways of Hong Kong begins showing strains when the mom holding everything together suffers a stroke. So May (Stephy Tang) is the elder daughter of the family, and dreams of escaping the life chained to the kitchen she was never allowed into anyway, by becoming a flight attendant. Her father (Simon Yam), highly traditional and stubborn, eternally critical and curmudgeonly, merely seems to suffer his and his families’ existence,...
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San Diego Film Festival 2014 Opening Night Film presents ‘Wild’: Walk that trail, girl
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures MPAA Rating: R Director: Jean-Marc Vallee Review Rating: 7 Based on a true story, Cheryl Strayed decides that walking the entire Pacific Coast Trail alone, armed with her wits and gear, will straighten out...
San Diego Latino Film Festival 2014 presents ¿Que Le Dijiste a Dios? (What Did You Say to God?)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Teresa Suarez Review Rating: 7.5 Two young country-bumpkin maids steal some fancy clothes from their snooty employer to attend a wedding, setting off a chain reaction adventure that affects the love lives of all around them! So...
San Diego Latino Film Festival 2014 Opening Night Film RANT
Ranted by Alicia Glass Welcome to the 21st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, and its Opening Night Film, Espacio Interior. Or rather it would be, if I had actually gotten to see the film. Moxie will explain. So the SDLFF is very popular round here in San Diego....