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!
Once Upon A Time In Venice
Review Rating: 6.5 out of 10 Through a series of bizarre circumstances and roundabout confrontations, down but never out former detective turned...
Wish Upon
Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Spoilers are in the box! A high school girl discovers a Chinese wishing box that actually grants her wishes – with...
Netflix Originals presents Lucid Dream
Review Rating: 7.5 out of 10 An investigative journalist will stop at nothing to find his son, who was kidnapped three years ago! South Korean...
My Own Swordsman
Review Rating: 8 A thieving Official involves several prominent townspeople and a Blessings Inn in his scheme to escape revenge from an angry...
The Great Magician
Review Rating: 8 In 1920’s Beijing, a powerful Magician returns to his homeland to fight arrogant warlords and reclaim the woman he loves! There’s...
White The Melody of the Curse
Review Rating: 7 Korean pop band Pink Dolls just can’t catch a break, until they discover the mysterious song “White” in their new studio and...
I Saw The Devil
Review Rating: 8 A Korean secret agent finds out just how far over the line he’ll go for revenge after his pregnant fiancé is murdered by an evil...
That Demon Within
Review Rating: 7.5 When a repressed policeman mistakenly saves the life of a notorious criminal lord, the cop develops an obsession to take down the...
Ataud Blanco El Juego Diabolico (White Coffin)
Review Rating: 6.5 out of 10 In the simplest of terms, it is another “save my child at any cost” movie, with a mysterious ritual of sacrifice and...
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...