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!
Muoi The Legend of a Portrait
Review Rating: 7.5 A Korean writer with a troubled past travels to Vietnam to research the local legend of Muoi, a vengeful spirit, for her second...
SDAFF 2012 presents Doomsday Book
Review Rating: 7 A collection of three anthologies from Korea cinema give us very different takes on the potential end of the world! A Brave New...
SDAFF 2012 presents Below Zero
Review Rating: 7 A formerly popular screenwriter suffering writers block, locks himself into a meat cooler to be alone with his inspiration, but the...
SDAFF 2012 presents I Am A Ghost
Review Rating: 9 Emily is a ghost repeatedly haunting her own house, unable to leave, and with the determined help of a clairvoyant, delves into the...
SDAFF 2011 presents Cold Fish
Review Rating: 7 A timid fish store owner gets caught up in the mad world of a competitor fish store owner’s serial killing spree with his equally...
SDAFF 2013 presents Finding Mr. Right
Review Rating: 7 A pregnant Mistress travels to Seattle to have her baby in secret, only to learn life lessons of humility and kindness, when her...
SDAFF 2013 presents The Haumana
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 After their beloved Hula instructor dies and chooses as her successor a native considered to be a sellout...
SDAFF 2014 presents The Songs of Rice
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 A visual record of rice culture and its impact, influences, and observances of the people of different...
SDAFF 2015 presents Crush The Skull
Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Some rather hapless and desperate thieves end up trapped in the house they intended to rob, which it turns out is the...
SDAFF 2015 presents The Royal Tailor
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8.5 The film rather incongruously begins with a modern-day showing of a fabulous hanbok (traditional Korean...
SDAFF 2016 presents The Mermaid
Review Rating: 8 out of 10 A hidden mermaid is sent to assassinate the rich developer planning on destroying her ecosystem, but instead manages to...
SDAFF 2016 presents Train To Busan
Review Rating: 8 out of 10 A South Korean train ride takes a deadly turn when a zombie apocalypse breaks out! Yes, it’s Korean and therefore...
SDAFF 2016 presents Three
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 out of 10 A showdown in a hospital brings the life choices of the three main characters – the Cop, the...
SDIFF 2017 presents Marshall
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 out of 10 A story about the first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, from his time as a...
Netflix presents Before I Wake
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 out of 10 Spoilers live in your nightmares too! A grieving couple who recently lost their only son decide...
Netflix Originals presents ARQ
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 out of 10 In a post-apocalyptic world where everything is in short supply and the evil corporation Torus...
Alien Covenant
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Spoilers will eat your backbone! The colony spaceship Covenant is out here on a 7-year journey...
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017)
Review Rating: 7 out of 10 So, here’s the deal. The movie is basically like watching a two-hour-long live-action version of the...
Horrible Imaginings 2021 presents Welcome to the Horror Show
Welcome to the Horror Show, with your host Mr. Bones (creator Ryan Joseph Murphy)! We bring to you a trio of dark short stories to get your blood...
SDIFF 2021 presents Val
A criminal on the run holes up in the mansion of a courtesan who holds some serious secrets of her own! So Finn (Zachary Mooren) isn’t exactly a...