American blues/rock musician John Mayer has the "swoon factor." With a raspy growl for a voice and a distressed, faraway glaze in his eyes, Mayer manages to attract love interests like Hollywood heavyweights...
Starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, "Amelia" is a highly romanticized depiction of Amelia Earhart -- the famous aviatrix who captivated the world in the 1930s with abilities to take to the skies in...
"And you better hurry, Nick, cause by anybody's watch but the warden's, you're already late," Clyde Shelton yells after attorney Nick Rice, as he runs off to save a colleague. In Law Abiding Citizen, Shelton...
This year, the San Diego Asian Film Festival featured "Make Yourself At Home," about an arranged marriage between a Korean and a Korean-American.
The film centralized around the dark things from the...
Where the Wild things Are, a film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book of the same name, tells the story of Max, an incorrigible young man who just craves love and attention, like all...
The orchestra serenaded the opening night audience with a little taste of what they were about to encounter. The sounds of the trumpets, horns, and piano offered an optimistic feeling and prepared the...
"Drag Me to Hell," Sam Raimi's gorrific return to all things spooky, is a masterful blend of comedy and horror with a bloodbath of artsy cinematography and witty moral commentary.
Christine Brown is a...
When former channel 10 news anchor, Lee Ann Kim, Executive Director and co-founder of the San Diego Asian Film Festival developed the concept of SDAFF in 1999, she did so with the goal of bringing a broad...
When their favorite TV-show does not fulfill their expectations, or their favorite TV-couple breaks up, many fans turn to fanfiction to experience what was not meant to be on television. Fanfiction describes...
The world looks so inviting when we are 16, in high school and thinking about the wonders the world has to offer us.
For Jenny, played by Carey Mulligan, those wonders take a path of their own when she...
"Children of Invention," presented as the opening film of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, is writer and director Tze Chun's first feature film. This movie has so far won 13 well-deserved festival awards,...