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**_Lost Girls on the gloomy coasts of the British Isles_** This comes in the tradition of the director’s “Interview With a Vampire” from eighteen years earlier which, incidentally, was the year the star of this one was born, Saoirse Ronan. Moira Buffini wrote the script using her one-act stage play “A Vampire Story” as inspiration. This lush-but-melancholy film is more explicit, expanding the tale to include the origin story of the two protagonists rooted in a patriarchal vampire order that forbids women from becoming the undead—a rule they break, which sets into motion the central conf…

The savvy and enigmatic “Foon” (Dayo Wong) is managing the last of the great clubs in Hong Kong, but with the clientele’s drinking and womanising habits becoming altogether more sophisticated and with his array of gals getting a little long in the tooth for their pervy paymasters, he knows the writing might be on the wall. That becomes more certain when “Madame V” (Sammi Cheng) does a deal with the unscrupulous “Prince Fung” (Chun Yip Low) to buy the club when it’s elderly owner dies. Now he and she have quite a past and she has no compunction in throwing him and his girls on the scrap heap. U…

This is a masterclass in psychological thriller! Kim Ki-young's 1960 classic is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of class, desire, and madness. 😊…

Suganathi is bringing up her young daughter Kamali with the help of her own mother after she was forced to leave her drunkard husband. They live right by the ocean and the youngster relishes both the water on which her uncle Santhosh teaches her to surf and the very basic concrete park in which she hones her skateboarding skills. She is fairly fearless, this girl, but her mum still worries about their future and so sets off on quite a lengthy pilgrimage to pray for something (she thinks it won’t work if she reveals her wish). Though in no way abandoned, this temporary separation gives Kamali a…

An orphaned and hungry bear cub is helped out by it's own coniferous version of “Treebeard” as it wanders the forest lonely and afraid. The rest of it's youth is spent in idyllic joy - fuelled by a diet of what looks like pre-processed pesto! High up in the branches one day, it espies a crisp packet. It’s still full and the bear relishes the taste. Across the ravine it sees the birds hovering and concludes that a visit is in order. The anxious tree is determined to prevent him, but then a rash act by the bear sees it released to explore the site of copious amounts of human waste. Now, well it'…

With more and more of us living single lives, I wonder just how far-fetched the idea of a laundromat-style approach to funerals might be? At least it's her son (Joël Hefti) who has put his money into the machine that will automate the entire process of cremation, and leave him with the contents of a small freezer bag to briefly memorialise. Then he - recruiting the aid of a girl who sells her services for such occasions to join him - engages in a sort of Siri/Alexa service before the remains are put into something akin to a coffee machine and then, well the clue is in the title. This appealed …

First of all, I want to thank Feat Pictures for bringing this magical, lavish, and grand Japanese film to Indonesia. I genuinely couldn’t take my eyes off the screen while watching it. One of my favorite aspects is how carefully the film handles its use of music knowing exactly when to bring in the score and when to let silence take over. Moments of quiet often make the atmosphere hit even harder, and it’s rare to see that level of restraint and precision. It honestly feels like a shame that the film only received an Oscar nomination for makeup. So many of its technical elements deserve…

LOL...I mean, serously. What is the term the braindead woke zombie goose stepping morons use everytime they trash an IP? Subverting expectations? Something like that? Well, they did it again. Once more they subverted audiance expetations by making a predator movie that's not a predator movie, which, honestly, isn't very shocking. The last thing Hollywood wants to do at the moment is give the audiance what they want and deliver a Predator movie when they pay to see a Predator movie. But, whatever, it pushes **_THE MESSAGE_**, which makes it the exact same movie as basically every movie …

I don't know where Will Trent is. My wife watches this, I read the novels and I've been looking for Will Trent for a few seasons now and he doesn't seem to show up. They have a character with his name, but that's not Will Trent. He doesn't look like the character readers know and love, and he certainly doesn't act like him. I think what happened is ABC, and Disney looked at the novels and thought, "Will's too white, scared (literally and figuratively), athletic, and awkwardly loveable.... let's swap him out for someone more diverse and Mr. Beanish" Credit where credit is due, they reall…

If one were a tyrannical despot who recklessly launched his country into a questionable “special military operation” (i.e., unprovoked invasion) in a neighboring nation and needed to win over the unquestioning support of a skeptical populace, what would you do? That’s the question Russian head of state Vladimir Putin had to address when his country’s forces invaded Ukraine in a mercilessly brutal offensive in February 2022. To gain the backing of his people, Putin launched an extensive Soviet-style propaganda campaign that required coercive compliance with its stated objectives, regimented pra…