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!
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 presents 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...
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Aquaman’s nemesis Manta returns possessed by an ancient evil, with plans to take down both the human world and the Kingdom...
SDAFF 2023 presents Sleep
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A young wife pregnant with her first child becomes terrified by her husbands increasingly odd sleep-walking. This is a very...
SDAFF 2023 presents Tiger Stripes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass At the ripe old age of 12, Malay Muslim girl Zaffan is the first in her class to experience physical growth changes, and...
Saw X
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers preface the Saw universe! Legendary executioner Jigsaw returns to exact revenge on a cadre of scam artists who...
Thanksgiving
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A year after a Black Friday sale riot that resulted in tragedy, the people of Plymouth Mass are terrorized when a killer...
Pet Sematary Bloodlines
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In 1969 a hereditary evil secret hidden by the town of Ludlow, Maine, is suddenly exposed when a grieving father uses the...
The Exorcist Believer
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers get demonic too! Set some 50 years after the events of the exorcism of Raegan MacNeil, a single father with an...
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Adapted and writ large from the Captain’s Log chapter of Bram Stoker’s magnum opus Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter...
John Wick Chapter Four
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The Boogeyman of the master assassin world, his codename Baba Yaga spoken in terrified whispers, the one and only John...
M3GAN
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A robotics engineer at a toy company creates a too-life-like doll for her recently orphaned niece, that takes on a life of...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Reviewed by Steve McGowan If you ask me what my favorite Marvel film series is, it’s Guardians of the Galaxy. What started off as a very...
Batman The Doom That Came to Gotham
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the comic book of the same name from Mike Mignola and Richard Pace, set atmospherically in 1920’s Gotham City, an...
Kill Boksoon
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A mother hiding a killer secret that she’s actually a professional assassin, deals with the trials of being a single mother...
SDIFF 2022 presents The Wind and the Reckoning
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
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
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
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...