Event Reviews
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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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San Diego Film Festival presents ‘Autumn Blood’: The woods are full of creeps
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Dreamrunner Pictures Director: Markus Blunder Review Rating: 7 A struggling family in the wild hills is repeatedly struck by tragedy, and the siblings have to fend for themselves when being terrorized by the local village folk. It’s a...
San Diego Film Festival presents Two Jacks
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Rough Diamond Productions Director: Bernard Rose Review Rating: 7 Very loosely based on a short story by Tolstoy, Two Jacks tells the story of a father and son generational legacy of making movies in Hollywood. So the first Jack Hussar...
San Diego Arabic Film Festival 2012 — Where Do We Go Now?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Nadine Labaki MPAA Rating: PG 13 Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rating: 8 Website: Where Do We Go Now? In an isolated village where Christians and Muslims live side by side, the frustrated women take it upon themselves to save their...