Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
Current featured Event
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Soldier of Love
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him get there along the way, including but not limited to fellow band mates and the main significant other, is a universal thing and doesn’t belong to any one particular country, race, or even music genre. Get your foot to tapping along...
Previous featured Events
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...
San Diego International Film Festival presents Opening Night Film ‘Other People’: Never a Straight Line
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Chris Kelly Studio: Park Pictures Review Rating: 7 out of 10 A flailing comedy writer with troubles of his own, returns home to his estranged family, to care for his mother who is dying of cancer. Told over the course of a year, the...
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2014 presents Another World
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Eitan Reuven Producer: Eitan Reuven & Shlomi Aviner Review Rating: 7 A quartet of survivors of the zombie apocalypse search for meaning and cause as they systematically take out zombie strongholds! Or do they? The film was...