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!
SDIFF 2022 presents ‘The Wind and the Reckoning’: Send in the Night Marchers!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a small 19th century colony of Native Hawaiians who refuse to accept government-mandated exile when leprosy...
‘Knock at the Cabin’: Puttin on your boogie shoes!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers be knockin’ too! Based on the 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay, while on vacation...
SDIFF 2022 presents ‘American Murderer’: Catch me if you can!
The story of how small-time criminal Jason Derek Brown went from scamming his friends and family out of money, to occupying a spot on the FBI’s Most...
SDAFF 2022 presents ‘Detectives vs. Sleuths’: The sins of our parents
Hong Kong is plagued by a series of terrible murders, of former suspects in cold cases who’ve evaded capture for years, by a vigilante gang calling...
SDIFF 2022 presents ‘Dotty and Soul’: Who’s the real boss here?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a cancelled Halloween costume scandal, Jewish entrepreneur Ethan Cox decides to try a Trading Places-like attempt at...
SDAFF 2022 presents ‘Ocean City Monster Building’: Its all been a mirage!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in 1984, the former Mayor of an upstate New York township is found dead with the body of a young girl also in his car,...
SDIFF 2022 presents ‘Taurus’: NO autographs for you!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Chasing the last days of a rising music star who, while trying to write his next big hit, dives headlong into his own...
SDIFF 2022 Opening Night presents ‘Armageddon Time’: Be a Mensch if you can
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in the early 80’s, with roots stemming from director James Gray’s personal history, comes a story of the ties that...
‘Hellraiser’ (2022): Choose your Configuration
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers live in the puzzle box! A freshly flayed new take on Clive Barker’s original 1987 Horror classic, Hellraiser 2022...
‘Mortal Kombat Legends Snow Blind’: The Ice Age of the Soul
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers hide in snow too! Led by King Kano, the Black Dragon gang goes around terrorizing the wastelands of an...
‘The Batman’: My broody Valentine
Reviewed by Alicia Glass When a masked madman who calls himself the Riddler begins murdering high profile figures in Gotham City, the vigilante with...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 NO!s Set in current day San Francisco, a Doctor’s attempts at genetic engineering to save his father have...
King Arthur Legend of the Sword
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Spoilers hide among the six-packs! Guy Ritchie’s utterly epic take on the whole legend of...
Avatar
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8.5 After discovering a very profitable mineral on a planet dubbed Pandora, a corrupt businessman and crazed...
Repo Men
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Replacement Hearts In a not-too-distant future where replacement organs can be bought (and repossessed) on...
From Hell
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 Inspector Abberline and Scotland Yard, supported by a bevy of saucy women of the night, probe the killings of...
SDAFF 2011 presents Big In Bollywood
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Struggling L.A. Indian-born actor Omi Vaidya lands a starring role in the Bollywood film 3 Idiots and...
SDAFF 2011 presents Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 A documentary of the life and work of Sushi Master Jiro Ono, his restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro, and his heir and...
SDAFF 2011 presents Hello Ghost
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Another failed suicide attempt leaves Sang-Man plagued by four hilarious ghosts. It must be pointed out first and foremost,...
SDAFF 2011 presents 4 Wedding Planners (aka Knots)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 A woman whose lost faith in love and marriage returns home to Hawaii and her female-empowered family business of...