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!
SDLFF 2012 presents Agnus Dei: Lamb of God
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6 Jesus is a young man attempting to find the Priest who abused him as an altar boy at 11, and gain some measure of...
SDLFF 2012 presents Labios Rojos (Red Lips)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 Successful Ad-man Ricardo has the perfect life with his wife Blanca and two children – until the roof falls in,...
SDLFF 2012 presents Bollywood Dream
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 Three Brazilian female perfomers head to India to try and break into the Bollywood movie industry. I wasn’t sure...
SDLFF 2013 presents Hecho en Mexico (Made In Mexico)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6.5 Using the diversity now available in Mexican music as a framework, everything from traditional Mariachi to...
SDLFF 2013 presents Las Carpetas (The Files)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6.5/10 The story of the files kept on suspected “government subversives” by the Puerto Rico police department in...
SDLFF 2013 presents The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7.5 A son returns to the antiques-filled estate of his estranged mother after her death, only to discover she might...
The Raid Redemption
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 In the Indonesian slums, a SWAT team attempts to infiltrate a derelict apartment building that’s been...
Audition
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 Acupuncture Needles A lonely widower using actress auditions as a cover for new-wife auditions, gets way more...
The Karate Kid (2010)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6 After his mother's career lands both of them in China, Dre Parker takes up learning Kung Fu from the maintenance...
The Warrior’s Way
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Throwing Knives After refusing a final mission of execution, a Ninja Assassin takes refuge in the American...
Tangled
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Pascals A Disney take on the legend of Rapunzel of the long hair, wherein Rapunzel in her tower meets and falls...
Little Big Soldier
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Acres of Farmland The story of an Old Soldier who kidnaps a younger enemy General and takes him on a long journey...
Disney presents The Princess and the Frog
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8.5 Set in Jazz-era New Orleans, a cook with big dreams and her friends try to help a cursed frog Prince. It’s...
Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Shorted Stocks After serving his prison sentence, the dangerous Wall Street trader Gordon Gekko re-enters trading...
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6.5 A Boston Homicide Detective goes on a crusade to discover the truth behind his secret activist daughter’s...
Tekken (2010)
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 7 Spinning Back Kicks In a bleak post-world-war future where territories are run by corporations and a fighting...
The Next Three Days
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 6 Escape Maps After his wife is wrongfully accused of murder and sent to jail, a desperate husband hatches a plan...
Drive Angry
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Rating: 8 Obolos After his daughter is killed and his granddaughter kidnapped by Satanic cultists, a vengeful man escapes...
Sony Pictures presents Planet 51
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 Captain Chuck Baker manages to land on the previously-though uninhabited Planet 51, where it turns out...
After Dark Horrorfest 2008 presents Dying Breed
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 6.5 A group of friends in search of the legendary Tasmanian tiger encounter a forgotten town full of...