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Pukkulapottas and Hours in the Forest (2021)
Filmmaker(s): Takeshi Yashiro

This is my report about a mysterious creature that "Watashi" found the year when normal came to a stop all around the globe. All over the world, people were forced to stay at home in the spring of the year; "Watashi" decided to stop commuting to the city and stayed home every day. One day, "Watashi" discovered mysterious traces in my garden. "Watashi" set up a camera to find out what it might be.

Camera as Soul of all, I am a sucker for artisanal stop motion. I’ve even elevated a few to my must see list of ‘fours’. This clearly was something from a deep emotional drive, in the only solitary film medium. The art here is remarkable because...


Published November 23, 2024
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I Am What I Am (2021)
Filmmaker(s): Sun Haipeng

By a fortunate coincidence, Juan is inspired and encouraged by a girl with the same name. Therefore, he decides to form a lion dance troupe with his friends, Cat and Dog, to break the constraints of reality and fight for themselves for once.

Sacrificial may find this a bit hard to see, and I am puzzled why it has not gotten an English dubbed release in our content hungry streaming platforms. I suspect it is because it is so focused on a young Chinese audience that it would...


Published December 16, 2024
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Red Notice (2021)
Pro and cons.

An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

Cleopatra’s Omelet formula film with no merit whatever. Three highly paid characters more or less being themselves, which doesn’t add to much. There is some travel, and some action as per what the bosses like. Enough viewers seem to as well. Ms Gadot is pretty...


Published September 1, 2025
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Monster Hunter (2020)
Behind our world, there is another.
Filmmaker(s): Paul W. S. Anderson

A portal transports Cpt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.

Lovers when I was doing this full time, I maintained a database of films where the filmmaker and actor (usually an actress) were lovers. It often imparts a situated intimacy, because you nearly literally see a soul through a lover’s eyes. Is there anything as...


Published May 13, 2022
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The Willoughbys (2020)
A family story for anyone who ever wanted to get away from their family
Filmmaker(s): Kris Pearn

When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.

Evil Hair used to be a side episode in larger stories has now grown to centre stage. In Cinderella, Snow White and such, we have a cruel stepmother. In recent films, we have dozens that mirror that and add inept father. But those use the...


Published May 13, 2022
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Une dernière fois (2020)
Filmmaker(s): Olympe de G.

Salomé is 69-year-old and doesn't want to grow old in a society that pays little attention to elderly people; thus, she has organized her disappearance. She plans her last evening in detail, as she thinks about the last time she will have sexual intercourse. With the held of Sandra, a filmmaker, Salomé organizes a casting to choose the person with whom she will make love for the last time. But, as she abandons herself to pleasures, she discovers something new: her last time will also be a first time, just like every end is also a new beginning.

Dry is a very promising idea. Take a 69 year old actress who was a star from the golden age of porn, someone who has maintained over the years a position of dignity in self-governed sexual expression. Posit the situation that this woman is for some...


Published September 20, 2022
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The Midnight Sky (2020)
There's a universe between all of us.
Filmmaker(s): George Clooney

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Dersu Solaris about filmmaking and internal narrative will always get poor reception among the general public. Nolan is able to straddle the line by delivering worldly action; that’s why his effects have to be so practical. But in general, when you make a film with...


Published December 6, 2022
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Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself (2020)
Identity is an illusion.
Filmmaker(s): Frank Oz

Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

Dark Crystal Oz has always puzzled me. He is the second voice, the Garfunkle to whomever is the Simon. He is not the guy to have and manifest the primary vision, so his projects are inept. On the other hand, given a framework from a...


Published June 16, 2024
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Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games (2009-2024)

Origami still in the paper on two-thirds of a long series.) I’ve watched all of the first season, and most of the second. So you don’t have to, these are TV episodes for a French audience that are well produced with the charms peculiar to a...


Published June 17, 2025
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