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SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society

by moxie | November 30, 2024 | Action, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, suspense | 0 Comments

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 with the big business that the haunting and urban legend celebrity ghosts perpetuate. When the offerings at a ghosts...

SDAFF 2024 New Wave

by moxie | November 30, 2024 | Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Independent, Movies | 0 Comments

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 their own around the super-popular New Wave music movement, and half a biographical journey of filmmaker Elizabeth Ai’s...

SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues

by moxie | November 30, 2024 | Action, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Movies, Romance | 0 Comments

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 star-crossed lovers who, determined to meet up after the war with the Japanese is over, endure all sorts of...

SDAFF 2024 All We Imagine As Light

by moxie | November 30, 2024 | drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the lonely, crowded city of Mumbai, a pair of female Nurse roommates struggle with repressed desires, societal expectations, and the eternal weight of reality that crushes human dreams. So Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) are...

SDAFF 2024 Little Red Sweet

by moxie | November 30, 2024 | drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance | 0 Comments

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 suffers a stroke. So May (Stephy Tang) is the elder daughter of the family, and dreams of escaping the life chained to the...

SDIFF 2024 Nightbitch

by moxie | November 18, 2024 | comedy, drama, Events, horror, Movies | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman who put her career on hold to become a first-time stay-at-home-Mom finds her smaller world taking an almost supernatural turn. This is an odd one ya’ll. The film is touted as a body-horror dark comedy, but struggles to find a role, a...

SDIFF 2024 Bob Trevino Likes It

by moxie | November 18, 2024 | comedy, drama, Events, Movies | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Inspired by a true story from director Tracie Laymon, after a falling-out with her dad, Lily Trevino makes a connection with another ‘Bob Trevino’ on the internet, and they form a strange and beautiful friendship. Poor Lily Trevino (Barbie...

SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!

by moxie | November 18, 2024 | comedy, drama, Events, Movies, Romance | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he returns to the French manor house in northern France to be closer to the memory of his late French wife. Based on the...

SDIFF 2024 Conclave

by moxie | November 17, 2024 | drama, Events, Movies, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris - when the Pope passes on, the college of Cardinals from all over the world convene in Rome to elect the new Pontiff, as shocking revelations and disturbances from the candidates come...

Joker Folie a Deux

by moxie | November 17, 2024 | Action, comedy, Comics, drama, horror, Movies, Musical, Romance, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers hidden in clown makeup! Called “the madness of two”, the love story of Joker and Lee, set against the backdrop of the murder trial of Arthur Fleck, imprisoned in Arkham, in 1980’s Gotham City. It’s almost impossible to believe...