Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDAFF 2025 : Magellan
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Set during the Age of Discovery, in 1504 famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Filipino land of Malacca, plus his subsequent on-going attempts to capture and colonize said lands and people. The film is full of gorgeous views of the Phillipines, where it was filmed, the jungles and the beaches, full of life with Malaccan natives living their untroubled lives, until the advent of the Portuguese conquerors. Because, make no...
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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...
SDIFF 2025 : Magic Hour
Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 As her suburban hell life falls apart when her cheating husband asks for a divorce and her scornful college-age daughter brooks no sympathy, Harriet decides to pursue her lifelong dream of...
SDIFF 2025 : Silent Rebellion (À bras-le-corps)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 Set in neutral Switzerland in 1943, the story of teenage servant girl Emma, and her private struggles inside her restrictive Protestant community. Despite the beautiful, wide sweeping...