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 25, 2025 | Action, drama, Events, Foreign, Movies, suspense
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Two friends tired of their precarious existence in the nighttime life of Gangnam, in South Korea, plan to gather a bunch of money and start a new business elsewhere, only to find themselves embroiled in fixed sports games with...
by moxie | Aug 26, 2025 | Action, drama, Foreign, suspense, TV Reviews
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on a graphic novel of the same name by Arash Amel from BOOM! Studios, a believed-dead former intelligence operative is forced to come out of hiding to protect his family from the consequences of his past actions. Whew! We the...
by moxie | Feb 23, 2025 | drama, Foreign, horror, Movies, suspense
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A pair of troubled nuns, each with haunted pasts, work desperately to save a young boy possessed by an evil spirit. Okay, this is a highly convoluted one y’all, and must be taken with a bunch of grains of salt. The movie is set in South Korea...
by moxie | Nov 17, 2024 | Action, Adventure, comedy, drama, Events, Fantasy, Foreign, Historical, horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, suspense
Kingdom What could be better than a beautifully realized Joseon-period K-Drama, starring the excellent actor Doona Bae, fresh off her grand success in Netflix’s ‘Sense8’? All of that, but with zombies! Oh this is a great one ya’ll. Adapted from a webcomic known as The...
