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!
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : I am a Ghost 10th Anniversary Remaster
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Way back in the, it seems like now, far-off year of 2012, I attended a showing of H.P. Mendoza’s I Am A Ghost at the...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Between Goodbyes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a queer Korean adoptee and her reunion with her original family, sharing cultural misunderstandings,...
Barbarian
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman renting an Air BNB discovers the house holds a myriad of terrifying secrets. There was an awful lot of...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Out of Plain Sight
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A documentary featuring the on-going effects of the dumping of the insecticide DDT off the Los Angeles coast more...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Baby Assassins: Nice Days
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the third installment of the Baby Assassins series, teenage hitpeople Chisato and Mahiro visit the coastal town of...
Bring Her Back
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Recently orphaned stepsiblings Piper and Andy find themselves farmed out to an adoptive mother with a sinister hidden...
Flight Risk
Reviewed by Alicia Glass An Air Marshal transporting a runaway fugitive, as in a flight risk, in a plane over the Alaskan wilderness, finds...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Lucky Star
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Soldier of Love
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So...
Death of a Unicorn
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Headed to a wilderness retreat of a wealthy pharmaceutical CEO to hopefully land a lucrative job, widower Elliot and...
Die Alone
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombie-like creatures, a young man with amnesia searches desperately for his...
Dark Nuns
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A pair of troubled nuns, each with haunted pasts, work desperately to save a young boy possessed by an evil spirit. Okay,...
Renner
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Genius computer engineer Renner creates an AI to help him as a life coach, only to find his life unraveling as he begins...
Trap
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A father with a giant secret attends a pop concert with his teenage daughter, to find themselves caught up in a sinister...
Y2K
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A pair of loser best pals decide to crash the cool kids end-of-the-year bash, unaware that the whole computer virus Y2K...
SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So our Rookie (Gingle Wang) hasn’t been dead terribly long as other ghosts would describe it, and isn’t terribly familiar...
SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of...
SDAFF 2024 All We Imagine As Light
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the lonely, crowded city of Mumbai, a pair of female Nurse roommates struggle with repressed desires, societal...
SDAFF 2024 Little Red Sweet
The legacy of a family-owned sweet soup shop in the back alleyways of Hong Kong begins showing strains when the mom holding everything together...