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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 2012 — Tony Tango
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Manolo Celi Rating: 7 Website: Tony Tango Tony is a misunderstood Latin dance instructor for elderly students, determined to win a big dance contest to save his families dance studio! The movie is more than a little ridiculous. Tony...
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2012 presents The World Before Her
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Nisha Pahuja Rating: 7 Website: The World Before Her Coverage of the women entering the Miss India pageant, and girls being trained in militant Fundamentalist Durga Vahini camps, make for a contrasting film of the changing Hindu...
SDAFF 2012 presents ‘Mekong Hotel’: Find the Pod ghosts
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Illumination Films Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Review Rating: 6 Normally, Moxie would start off a review of any given movie with a brief synopsis of the plot and then expound to opinions. I actually can’t do that in this...