by moxie | Dec 1, 2025 | comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 The story of a North Korean defector trying to find a new life, and perhaps some queer love, in South Korea’s cosmopolitan Seoul. Being an openly-ish gay male in South Korea is a fairly recent thing, and though there are...
by moxie | Nov 28, 2025 | Adventure, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 After clashing with the younger queer generation, proudly open lesbian bar-owner Manok returns to her hometown to face yet more prejudice, and take on her smarmy ex-husband, who is now the equivalent of town mayor. South...
by moxie | Jun 18, 2025 | drama, Events, horror, Independent, Movies, suspense
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 San Diego Asian Film Festival of that year. I was absolutely blown away, as was the audience, and you can still read my...
by moxie | Jun 14, 2025 | Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Independent, Movies
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a queer Korean adoptee and her reunion with her original family, sharing cultural misunderstandings, long-held regrets, and familial bonds with laughter and eventually, love. When the film begins, the Kim family and...
by moxie | Apr 12, 2023 | Action, drama, Foreign, Movies, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A mother hiding a killer secret that she’s actually a professional assassin, deals with the trials of being a single mother to a begrudging teenage daughter, and oh yeah, difficulties and potential regime changes at work! So Gil Boksoon (Jeon...
