Movie Reviews
From 35mm to Super8, from Digital to 3D, be it CGI, green-screen, multiple-exposure or even stop-motion, international, domestic, experimental, controversial, we review it all, with moxie!
SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So our Rookie (Gingle Wang) hasn’t been dead terribly long as other ghosts would describe it, and isn’t terribly familiar...
SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of...
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...
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...
SDIFF 2024 Nightbitch
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman who put her career on hold to become a first-time stay-at-home-Mom finds her smaller world taking an almost...
SDIFF 2024 Bob Trevino Likes It
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Inspired by a true story from director Tracie Laymon, after a falling-out with her dad, Lily Trevino makes a connection...
SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he...
SDIFF 2024 Conclave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris - when the Pope passes on, the college of Cardinals from all over...
Joker Folie a Deux
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers hidden in clown makeup! Called “the madness of two”, the love story of Joker and Lee, set against the backdrop of...
Smile 2
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After being corrupted by the smile entity curse, global singing sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The death of patriarch Deetz brings everyone back together, tossing in Beetlejuice himself to stir the plot, and some new...
Speak No Evil
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A struggling couple with their young daughter are invited to spend an idyllic weekend at a newly-made friends country...
Alien Romulus
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers lurk in empty space stations too! A gang of space colonists trying to scavenge cryo-sleep pods from a derelict...
Blink Twice
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Tech mogul Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at a fundraising gala, and whisks her and her friend Jess off to...
SDIFF 2023 American Fiction
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Frustrated by the reduction of black authors to base stereotype tropes, writer Monk creates a “black enough” author...
Abigail
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A gang of misfit kidnappers find their tiny target far more bloodthirsty than they bargained for! So, unfortunately the...
The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of the rise of Coriolanus Snow, from teenage Capital City pawn to rising Dictator of the Hunger Games and...
SDAFF 2023 Concrete Utopia
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a massive earthquake in Seoul causes the destruction of the overcrowded apartment complexes, the last standing...
Dune Part Two
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Welcome back to our struggle for control of the known universe already in progress, the continuation of the journey of Paul...