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SDAFF 2024 All We Imagine As Light
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the lonely, crowded city of Mumbai, a pair of female Nurse roommates struggle with repressed desires, societal expectations, and the eternal weight of reality that crushes human dreams. So Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) are Nurses who work at the same hospital, more often than not having to deal with obstetrics (the baby stuff) and female-centric healthcare in a far-too-large populace that doesn’t seem to care about their women, or children. Prabha is...
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Moxie’s Top 5 Japanese Horror Movies
Ringu Way back in the 90’s, a sudden film spawned a popular film franchise, triggered a Western popularization of Japanese Horror, and started a renaissance of Japanese Horror, all with a single film – Ringu. Based on a series of novels written by Koji Suzuki, the...
Moxie’s Top 5 DC Jokers
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Cesar Romero, who played the Joker in the totally zany Batman TV show from the 1960’s, starring Adam West as the titular hero. Romero did it first, among all these other versions of the Joker, you could always tell that Romero was having a...
SDIFF 2023 American Fiction
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Frustrated by the reduction of black authors to base stereotype tropes, writer Monk creates a “black enough” author persona, only to find himself instantly popular for all the wrong reasons! So Thelonius Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) never much...