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!
San Diego Film Week presents ‘A Life Lived’: For Love or Money?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Riley Wood Studio: Not A Camel Productions Review Rating: 8 out of 10 The journey of a single dollar bill and the...
‘Trash Fire’: All in the Family fault
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Richard Bates Jr. Studio: Circle of Confusion MPAA Rating: R Review Rating: 6.5 out of 10 So Owen (Adrien...
SDIFF 2016 presents ‘Pushing Dead’: It’s only funny if it’s NOT you
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Tom E. Brown Studio: Bugsby Pictures Review Rating: 7 out of 10 When an HIV-positive man makes a tiny banking...
San Diego International Film Festival presents Opening Night Film ‘Other People’: Never a Straight Line
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Chris Kelly Studio: Park Pictures Review Rating: 7 out of 10 A flailing comedy writer with troubles of his own,...
‘Child 44’: No murder in paradise?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Summit Entertainment MPAA Rating: R Director: Daniel Espinosa Review rating: 7.5 In Stalin-era Soviet Russia, a...
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2014 presents Another World
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Eitan Reuven Producer: Eitan Reuven & Shlomi Aviner Review Rating: 7 A quartet of survivors of the zombie...
San Diego Film Festival 2014 presents ‘Project M’: We can’t live without water!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Eric Piccoli Review Rating: 7.5 In the not-too-distant future with Earth’s supply of natural resources dwindling,...
San Diego Film Festival 2014 presents ‘Big Significant Things’: Road trip!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Uncorked Productions Director: Bryan Reisberg Review Rating: 7 Craig has the world at his feet, an adoring...
San Diego Film Festival 2014 Opening Night Film presents ‘Wild’: Walk that trail, girl
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures MPAA Rating: R Director: Jean-Marc Vallee Review Rating: 7 Based on a true story, Cheryl...
San Diego Latino Film Festival 2014 presents ¿Que Le Dijiste a Dios? (What Did You Say to God?)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Teresa Suarez Review Rating: 7.5 Two young country-bumpkin maids steal some fancy clothes from their snooty...
San Diego Latino Film Festival 2014 Opening Night Film RANT
Ranted by Alicia Glass Welcome to the 21st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, and its Opening Night Film, Espacio Interior. Or rather it would...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 29 – Masters of Horror
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: AnchorBay MPAA Rating: R Review Rating: 8 A two season collection of hour-long horror films made by some of the...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 27 – May
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: 2 Loop Films MPAA Rating: R Director: Lucky McGee Review Rating: 8 Traumatized by a difficult childhood and the...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 26 – Hocus Pocus
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Walt Disney Pictures MPAA Rating: PG Director: Kenny Ortega Review Rating: 8 The Sanderson sisters are brought...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 25 – Brainscan
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Admire Productions MPAA Rating: R Director: John Flynn Review Rating: 7 Michael Bower is a limping misfit Horror...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 24 – The Rage: Carrie 2
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: United Artists MPAA Rating: R Director: Katt Shea Review Rating: 7.5 In the wake of the Carrie White incident some...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 22 – Children of the Corn
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Angeles Entertainment MPAA Rating: R Director: Fritz Kiersch Review Rating: 7 The town of Gatlin, Nebraska, harbors...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 21 – The Wicker Man
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Warner Bros. MPAA Rating: PG 13 Director: Neil LaBute Review Rating: 7 An officer of the law gets convinced to go...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 20 – The Prophecy
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: First Look International MPAA Rating: R Director: Gregory Widen Review Rating: 8 Pursued by other Archangels, Angel...
Movie Moxie’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 19 – John Carpenter’s Vampires
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Largo Entertainment MPAA Rating: R Director: John Carpenter Review Rating: 7.5 A team of vampire hunters sponsored...