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 | Nov 24, 2025 | Action, drama, Events, Foreign, horror, Movies, Romance, suspense
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths. Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like...
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 | May 8, 2025 | drama, Events, Movies, Romance
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make ends meet for his struggling family. So when we meet Lucky (Terry Chen), he’s already or more accurately still in...
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...
