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 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...
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2012 presents Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Cinediaz Director: Ramona S. Diaz Review Rating: 7 Website: Everyman’s Journey The real life story of how the iconic rock band Journey went on a journey with their brand new Filipino lead singer, Arnel Pineda. So, Arnel Pineda happens...