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Movie Reviews: “Dawning” and Short Films “Kageboshi,” “Good Taste,” and “Dikit” (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival)

Dawning Young Min Kim makes his feature film directorial debut — he also wrote the screenplay — with Dawning, a psychological horror outing heavy on family drama. Haejin Park (Kim Ellis) may have physically left her home after her father’s suicide...

Movie Review: Ti West’s ‘X’ Is More About Sex Than Horror

Sex and horror films have always walked hand in hand, but writer-director Ti West takes that to a whole new level with his horror film, about a porn movie shoot gone wrong, simply titled X.   On a remote farm, a group of x-rated filmmakers...

Game Review: ‘Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong’

If you take Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, The Lost Boys, and Dungeons and Dragons and put them in a blender with a couple of drops of hot sauce, you will get the tabletop/pen and paper RPG Vampire: The Masquerade. The game and its story take...

Movie Reviews: “One and Four” and “Coma” (Jeonju International Film Festival)

One and Four Chinese feature One and Four (2021) is a nailbiter about Sanggye (Jinpa), a ranger who works alone at an isolated post in the Tibetan forest, whose solitude is interrupted when he finds a crashed car with a dead policeman on board....