Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDAFF 2025 : The Rose Come Back to Me
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 An in-depth documentary chronicling the rise of The Rose, from a group busking in the South Korean streets, to a global Indie band sensation. Movie Moxie is a Blink, a big fan of the K-Pop girl group Blackpink, and other South Korean bands besides, but honestly I had only ever heard of The Rose in passing. There was a big scandal a few years ago involving one of The Rose members, which the film addresses, if briefly. But nothing prepared us for...
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SDIFF 2025 : Aontas
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 When an unlikely trio of women attempt to rob a rural Irish Credit Union, a told-backwards chronology reveals what led to such an inadvisable and desperate act. In this hard-bitten past-regretting look at a small...
SDIFF 2025 : 100 Liters of Gold
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 Middle-aged sisters Taina and Paivi, famous in their Finnish village for making a traditional beer called ‘sahti’ via old family recipes, are hired to provide all the drink for a friends’ wedding, only to have to scramble to...
SDIFF 2025 : Rental Family
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 A struggling American actor living in Tokyo finds new purpose in a very different acting gig, as part of a “rental family” agency, where he plays stand-in roles for strangers. Brendan Fraser is a wonderful actor who...