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SDIFF 2023 presents American Fiction

by moxie | June 7, 2024 | comedy, drama, Events, Independent, Movies, Romance | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Frustrated by the reduction of black authors to base stereotype tropes, writer Monk creates a “black enough” author persona, only to find himself instantly popular for all the wrong reasons! So Thelonius Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) never much...

Abigail

by moxie | May 10, 2024 | Action, comedy, drama, horror, Movies, Sci-Fi, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass A gang of misfit kidnappers find their tiny target far more bloodthirsty than they bargained for! So, unfortunately the trailers absolutely gave it away and let’s be real that’s why most of us are here, the knowledge that the kidnap victim...

The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

by moxie | March 11, 2024 | Action, drama, horror, Movies, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of the rise of Coriolanus Snow, from teenage Capital City pawn to rising Dictator of the Hunger Games and President of Panem! Apparently no one out here in post-apocalyptic Panem has heard of irony and so they name their children...

SDAFF 2023 presents Concrete Utopia

by moxie | March 9, 2024 | Action, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a massive earthquake in Seoul causes the destruction of the overcrowded apartment complexes, the last standing facility becomes a battleground for the beleaguered survivors. So, here in real life, South Korea has been experiencing a...

Dune Part Two

by moxie | March 8, 2024 | Action, Adventure, drama, Fantasy, horror, Movies, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Welcome back to our struggle for control of the known universe already in progress, the continuation of the journey of Paul Atreides from exile to Emperor, Dune Part Two! So when we last left our intrepid if dubious heroes, House Atreides had...

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

by moxie | January 11, 2024 | Action, Adventure, comedy, Comics, drama, Fantasy, Movies, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Aquaman’s nemesis Manta returns possessed by an ancient evil, with plans to take down both the human world and the Kingdom of Atlantis! We launch right into a game of catch-up just as soon as the film begins, taking off at breathless speeds as...

SDAFF 2023 presents Sleep

by moxie | January 10, 2024 | drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass A young wife pregnant with her first child becomes terrified by her husbands increasingly odd sleep-walking. This is a very relevant one y’all, for one particular reason – everyone knows what it’s like to have to go without sleep, and what it...

SDAFF 2023 presents Tiger Stripes

by moxie | January 10, 2024 | comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, Sci-Fi, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass At the ripe old age of 12, Malay Muslim girl Zaffan is the first in her class to experience physical growth changes, and all the stigma that comes with them. It’s virtually impossible to watch this film, beautifully shot in the Malay jungles...

Saw X

by moxie | November 21, 2023 | Action, drama, horror, Movies, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Spoilers preface the Saw universe! Legendary executioner Jigsaw returns to exact revenge on a cadre of scam artists who promised him a bogus cure for his cancer! First off, be aware, this is what I call an interleaved sequel, a movie set...

Thanksgiving

by moxie | November 20, 2023 | Action, comedy, drama, horror, Movies, suspense | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alicia Glass A year after a Black Friday sale riot that resulted in tragedy, the people of Plymouth Mass are terrorized when a killer dons the folkloric mask of the hometown hero John Carver (irony!) to take revenge! So it’s right around turkey genocide...