by moxie | May 5, 2025 | drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Musical, Romance
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | Action, comedy, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, suspense
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...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | Documentary, drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Independent, Movies
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...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance
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...
by moxie | Nov 30, 2024 | drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, Romance
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...