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Incredible, fascinating genre-bending film, masterfully blending hand-drawn animation with documentary footage to stunning effect. Full of plot twists too special to give away here. A MASTERPIECE! Just see it for yourself!…

stands out as a gripping Spanish crime drama that blends raw tension with strong character development…

_The Carnage Collection_ The Ferreira brothers are madmen (and also possibly geniuses!!) I had the privilege to see the full collection in all of its big-screen glory at the Maine Underground Film Festival, and it didn’t disappoint. Bob and Derek Ferreira have created an incredible horror universe. From teleporting-knife-wielding-killer-animatronic Santas to demonic entities selling weed, from kidnapped lovers to slasher clowns, _The Carnage Collection_ features a beautiful display of equal parts surreal-horror-comedy and utter darkness. We begin and end with very neatly …

While I may be from Germany and don't have their same family situations, I could relate to Alyssa a lot. Dreaming of a better world, using imagination to get through reality, being spontanous, and trying to do the best in life, which however needs to also be lots of fun. She probably impersonated Gen Z quite well. The ending surprised me, as it is not the typical comedy roadtrip movie ending, reminding that one of the genres is also drama. It's not bad. Just … very realistic and bittersweet. Although hopeful, too. I wouldn't mind a sequel. Watched the original version with ge…

While I didn't feel this series was particularly groundbreaking (another cult doing cult stuff), this is the first docuseries about a cult I've seen that affected (mostly) the Black community. I appreciate this series being made for awareness and representation, sometimes we think we'd never get tangled up in a cult but the reality is gurus can inject themselves into any community (not just lost, hippie white people), especially when there is tremendous suffering going on in the world. We all want to believe in something bigger than us, as was with these individuals. We think our own communiti…

The 1973 Soviet animated film Perses, directed by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, is not historically accurate to ancient Greek mythology. Instead, it deliberately reshapes the myth into a moral allegory typical of Soviet educational animation, focusing on a conflict between altruism and greed. The De-Divinization of the God: In the Aryan tradition, Hermes is a "Solar" messenger, the God of initiation, and a guide for the hero. The film's depiction of him as a cynical, profit-driven "merchant" who views kindness as a "commodity" would be seen as a Marxist/Semitic caricature. The …

This is one of a few interesting stories about an atheist with investigative or legal skills deciding to prove that the Bible is fake. A book with the same theme, which has been around over 40 years, is "Evidence That Demands A Verdict" by Josh McDowell, of which this movie reminds me. Overall this movie is inspiring. For a low budget production there are a few remarkables: the quality is high, the acting is good, the cast is impressive, and the final product doesn't beat the audience on the head. If you're not atheist you will most likely enjoy this one. If you are atheist, and …

Found footage is tricky, but this movie balances the ridiculousness of the premise ("you have to have a camera rolling all the time") with the plot, and makes it work. It is a Swedish horror movie, with all that entails, but it does make good use of its visuals, and the direction is solid. The casting might not be spot on, but it is more than enough to carry this through.…

This was all very effective storytelling. It doesn't need ostentatious musical stings or jump scares, it only builds on itself and very minor environmental cues. It is very slow burn and the payoff is very late in the third act, but the narrative is compelling and the characters are alive so that the tension becomes real. It is well written and well directed with decent casting and I would recommend it if you're in for some slow creeping horror.…

Clearly this is not as good as this can get, but with this particular iteration, this is what we got. It is nowhere near as frightening as the original, and a lot of that is probably due to the characters not being relatable, which is why you don't feel any tension, and without tension, the "scary" is just bland noise and screeching. If the characters had built a connection with the audience that might have been different, but that wasn't to be here. This is techically proficient, and looks good enough, but it isn't a horrormovie worthy a franchise like this. This is lower tier, for sure.…