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 Making a sequel to Inside Out was always going to be a difficult task. The 2015 film is widely considered one of Pixar's finest achievements and is a late-stage masterpiece from the California animation studio. This brings us to Inside Out 2, a sequel that somehow manages to build on the complexity of the first (which, truth be told, is one of my favorite movies). It's a brilliant play, taking us even deeper into the mind of protagonist Riley Andersen (Kensington Tallman) and her personified emotions. Director: Kelsey Mann Writers: Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein, Kelsey Mann Stars: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman Riley is now officially a teenager, still guided by her emotions Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale) and Disgust (Liza Lapira), who have found a way to that everything works. together controlling the console at headquarters. When the movie begins, Riley is in the middle of a hockey game, with her new best friends G...

The huge success of shows like The Last of Us and Fallout prove that video game adaptations are all the rage right now. People love to escape into digital worlds, even bleak, post-apocalyptic ones. But what happens when that line between reality and fiction begins to blur? What happens when your life becomes as terrifying as what you're playing, when it becomes something you can't escape even after you put down the controller and turn off the console? That's the question posed by Latency, written and directed by James Croke. Latency is a simple film in terms of cast and setting, revolving around just two main characters: protagonist Hana (Sasha Luss) and her best friend Jen (Alexis Ren), and taking place solely in her apartment. Hanna. The catalyst comes when Hana, an agoraphobic video game tester, receives a fancy new console called the Omnia, which clips to the back of her head. Through this, Omnia promises to be able to record her neurological activity for a seamless gam...

 Mob narratives rarely put women front and center, unless it's in a straight comedy ("Married to the Mob," the recent "Mafia Mamma") or cheesy made-for-TV movies like "Mafia Princess." and “Bella Mafia.” Jennifer Esposito, no stranger to the genre as an actress, attempts to balance that accounting with her writer-director debut, “Fresh Kills.” This solid drama centers on a family similar to “The Sopranos,” but with its patriarch relegated to the background. The focus here is on wives and daughters, who must turn a blind eye to criminal acts from which they both benefit and suffer the consequences. Originally a Tribeca premiere, “Fresh Kills” has been traveling the festival circuit and should prove a viable item for streaming platforms and broadcasters. Director: Jennifer Esposito Writer: Jennifer Esposito Stars: Jennifer Esposito, Odessa A'zion, Annabella Sciorra After a framing sequence that fast-forwards to a later moment of crisis, we meet the L...

 People's responses have generally been mildly positive, but many have experienced that this is not a horror movie and there aren't many scares. It's more of a coming-of-age story than a horror story, so keep that in mind. This film won the Critics' Week Grand Prize and, having seen it, I understand why. Director Amanda Nell Eu does a pretty good job in another debut coming-of-age story of a 12-year-old girl who goes through some strange changes and situations with some gorgeous, colorful camera work, sound designs, themes, and atmospheres, and a good performance by the main actress. Director: Amanda Nell Eu Writer: Amanda Nell Eu Stars: Zafreen Zairizal, Deena Ezral, Piqa Malaysian cinema is not often talked about and I have rarely seen films from the country and having learned about its culture and background, the film does a good job of capturing the setting, atmosphere, culture and beliefs with some interesting choices and daring, like discussions about periods. and...

 Good documentary series, but not worth watching for several weeks on Netflix. It would be really solid if important historical documentaries had a single solid narrator (Peter Coyote/Martin Sheen) and not a constant trope of random academics giving their two senses as if they were firsthand witnesses. Above all, documentaries like this need to get rid of the constant 10-second frames of random individual men and women in a semi-dark room talking when they can just continue with the interesting footage or recreations they already have. This documentary series has a lot of unique footage and decent recreations, but it's ruined by the constant random guy/girl sitting with their legs crossed with a red curtain behind them. Stars: Károly Kozma, Erik Gyercán, Balázs Kató The tones of the speakers' voices are a bit whiny/annoying and there seems to be a lot of personal opinions given without the speakers indicating that what they were saying was actually an opinion. If I see them aga...

 The OGs Ohma Tokita aka Kengan Ashura, Metsudo Katahara and Mitsunari Tokugawa are back. It is thanks to the latter, coming from the worlds of Ashura and Hanma, that the concept of competition began. On the other hand, Sea Emperor Kaku, Retsu, and Jaku make a cameo, and it's as good as them not being in the movie. Nobunaga Shizamaki returns to voice Baki Hanma, while Tatsuhisa Suzuki appears as the voice of Kengan Ashura. Both, as always, stand out in the franchise. The film begins with an earthquake. Of course we know what it means in the world of Baki Hanma. So, when Hanma met Ashura, well, the break is history. It is a story that is meant to be retold. As in Baki Hanma, Kazuo Yamashita is the one who is introduced. Director: Toshiki Hirano Writers: Daromeon, Atsuo Ishino, Keisuke Itagaki Stars: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Yutaka Aoyama This story is about power, and with thunder falling, it makes that absolutely clear. Keeping the tone of the series intact, there is a...

 When an icon dies, you can almost hear the frantic keystrokes of screenwriters everywhere trying to write the next great biographical drama about their larger-than-life existences. After Karl Lagerfeld, the renowned German fashion designer, died in 2019, it seemed inevitable that his life would be torn apart and turned into an exaggerated dramatization for mass consumption, and yet that's not what happened here. Loosely based on Raphaëlle Bacqué's biography Kaiser Karl, published shortly after Lagerfeld's death, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld presents a much more grounded examination of the man best remembered for his trademark white hair and iconic black sunglasses. Hollywood seems curiously interested in two things this year: World War II and the illustrious namesakes of the fashion brands that still hold equity in the industry. Earlier this year, Apple TV+ premiered its grim exploration of the lives of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, and now, Hulu is delving into the personal ...

 It's hard not to compare Ishana Night Shyamalan's film debut to the work of her father M. Night Shyamalan. Aside from the first name in the credits, They See You looks and feels exactly like a work by the former child prodigy who became infallible with The Sixth Sense but then suffered shipwrecks again and again. Despite all the setbacks, he was always a topic of conversation and was able to make films that were sometimes more successful and other times less successful. Thanks to a new contract with Warner, which will not only release its next film Trap: No Way Out (in theaters from August 8, 2024), but also They See You, which Papa Shyamalan produced, a matter of honor. Shyamalan's signature is recognizable from the first minute. The narrative is not slow, but it is solid. Unimportant characters, like main character Mina's boss (Dakota Fanning, The Equalizer 3 – The Final Chapter), remain out of sight. Shyamalan Junior tries to keep the plot as concentrated as possibl...

 Families are complicated no matter where you go. Each family member has a different personality and set of opinions. Sometimes these things can bring people together, and sometimes they can tear them apart. Fatima AlBanawi's “Basma,” the new South Arabian drama film on Netflix, explores similar complications in the family of a young Saudi woman: Basma. Years ago, she moved to the United States to pursue higher education. The pandemic kept her away from Jeddah for a year, but upon her return, she found her family life transformed in unexpected ways. A couple of months ago, Basma's mother divorced her father. She did not inform Basma because she was worried that it would affect her concentration on her life abroad. Anyway, the reason for the divorce was not just a recent argument. Basma discovers that her mother had held onto harder truths for years. Her father has had some mental health problems. However, she refused to take his medication, making it difficult for other people ...

 Until a few years ago, MTV produced the show Cribs, in which celebrities showed viewers their multimillion-dollar villas. People who lend themselves to this type of television usually have one thing in common: they are true narcissists. Without a doubt, that label also applies to Nelma Kodama, a Brazilian dentist who set up an empire of money laundering practices, she was exposed and, through Netflix, seems to have been right in a curious way. Nelma proudly shows us the Italian furniture in her luxury apartment and talks to us about dollars, politicians and the 'Car Wash' operation, but above all, of course: about her own personality. Nelma considers herself an artist, an orchestra director. When she talks about her criminal past dressed and made up impeccably, she does so with the grandiloquence of an actor who must give the audience an unforgettable evening. To the extent that her story no longer has the characteristics of a Hollywood saga, she adds it herself. Nelma clearly...

 The first time I saw Rafael Márquez as a Barcelona player was when I started supporting the Spanish football club. Even then he was quite famous, having already played in two World Cups, both as captain. I didn't know I would write about Rafael Márquez thanks to a Netflix documentary after all these years. Obviously I'm happy about it, because I really liked him as a player and, above all, because he was part of the football team of the club I support. Well, he is still part of the club, as it turns out that he is the current coach of Barcelona B. Let's now take a closer look at Rafa Márquez: The Captain. Rafa Márquez: El Capitan opens in the present, with the man at the Barcelona B training camp. The scene soon changes to the biggest controversy of Rafa's life: the United States Treasury Department accuses him of being involved with a drug cartel, which obviously happened in the past. While it seems like the documentary could do a non-linear narrative or juggle differ...

 As a new school year begins at the exclusive Jooshin High School, the students gather for a first day assembly. The school's motto is "Noblesse Oblige," and following that motto, a new scholarship student, Kang Ha (Lee Chae-min), is introduced. He begins to talk to the students, but is interrupted when Kim Ri-an (Kim Jae-won) enters the auditorium with his friend Lee Woo-jin (Lee Won-jung). Ri-an is the school's top student, as he is in line to take over the Jooshin Group, the corporation that owns the school. He has no idea of ​​the protocols surrounding Ri-an and the other high-status students there; they admonish him when he gets up to leave the assembly before Ri-an, and criticize him when he mistakenly enters the "special" English classroom. Stars: No Jeong-ee,  Lee Chae-Min, Kim Jae-Won Meanwhile, there is a small gap in Ri-an's circle; His girlfriend, Jung Jae-i (Roh Jeong-eui), a descendant of a Jooshin Group rival, had been distant from him in ...

 Queenie's eponymous heroine goes by many names in the TV show based on the best-selling 2019 novel. She's labeled "angry," "quirky," and just "too much," but unfortunately it's all about telling and not showing, because in We are actually asked to invest in a dull protagonist overcoming pedestrian obstacles that make you long for the show to be directed by the OTT girl she alludes to. We meet Queenie at the hospital for a gynecology appointment, where she learns that she has had a miscarriage. Things get progressively worse after she argues with her aunt (she inexplicably keeps the pre-work date with her), shows up late for her job as a social media assistant, and has a relationship-ending fight at the family reunion. her white boyfriend Tom. Creator: Candice Carty-Williams Stars: Dionne Brown, Bellah, Llewella Gideon We spend the series watching Queenie try to rebuild her life, mend her broken heart, write articles and not just post them on s...

 Julio visits Crayola headquarters, where different colors respond to customer service calls. He introduces a new light color and the executives she meets with wonder what the purpose is. "To color something light is to recognize that things are different, and that's okay." What do you want to call the color? “Fatasmas”, which is “ghosts” in Spanish. An executive convinces him to do it in the singular: "Ghost." Julio hops into a rental car, driven by a chatty driver named Chester (Tomás Matos). Chester tells Julio to delete all of his car rental apps and just download his; he promises to even come pick him up if he leads someone else. Creator: Julio Torres Stars: Julio Torres, Martine Gutierrez, Joe Rumrill A comedy called MELF is playing on the phone mounted in the back seat; It's about an alien that crashes into the home of an Earth family. He loves to eat cookies and spaghetti for dinner. But the most interesting thing is that MELF (Marc Petrocino) and th...

 A different approach is taken in Wild Eyed and Wicked. The film follows Lily Pierce (Molly Kunz) as she struggles with dark family secrets. The film begins as a slow-burning drama and ends with a literal, horrific fight as Lily attempts to free her family from the evil that has been taken from them for generations. Pay close attention to the opening scenes. Everything at the beginning will be important once the drama turns into a very dark fantasy. Director: Gordon Shoemaker Foxwood Writer: Gordon Shoemaker Foxwood Stars: Colleen Camp, Molly Kunz, Stefanie Estes It's important to note that the first half of the film is a slow-moving drama. Lily's life in the present is defined and connected to the traumatic death of her mother. The film slowly reveals that Lily is separated from her father, Gregory (Michael X. Sommers). He is still in the family home, dying of colon cancer and depression. Lily's messy life and estrangement are soon explained as her nightmares increase. In ...

 Waldek, Staszek and Delphina are going to spend the summer holidays at Aunt Mariola's house in the mountains with Teresa and her new boyfriend, Piotrek. Piotrek is a well-intentioned boy who studies law and is a climbing enthusiast. He tries his best to bond with the kids but it's pretty embarrassing to watch. They arrive at Mariola's house and the first thing she does is grab the children's laptops so they can enjoy time outdoors. She has a whole itinerary planned for them that includes watching her paraglide down the mountain. Piotrek and Teresa love each other and Piotrek plans to propose to her at the right time. He finds a good spot on top of the mountain, but the ring falls out of the box. The moment passes when Mariola slides in and Teresa mentions Waldek's father, who lives in the area. Waldek and Staszek secretly observe them and listen to this. Director: Kristoffer Rus Writer: Agnieszka Dabrowska Stars: Maciej Karas, Patryk Siemek, Amelia Fijalkowska Wald...

Although the Texas Renaissance Festival takes place during September and October, it is so large that the people working are there year-round; George Coulam even incorporated a town called Todd Mission, where the fair is located and the people who work there live. The fair has brought King George much wealth, but his general distrust of the people and devotion to his creation has left him with no company other than the people on his payroll. According to Victor's young assistant, his profile is now on fifteen different online dating sites, many of them "sugar daddy" sites, where he is looking for a much younger woman to be with him. His huge house is decorated to look like a medieval castle. He also seems to have an obsession with death; He is scheduled to travel to Switzerland and die by assisted suicide when he is 95 years old. Stars: Jeffrey Baldwin, George Coulam, Darla Smith One of the people looking to take over is Jeff Baldwin; He has worked for the fair for more t...

 Luckily for Jo Koy, there's always someone at his shows who finds it extremely funny: himself. Many comedians laugh at his own material, but Koy does it as if he were hearing it for the first time. He's not the only one laughing in his Netflix special Live From Brooklyn, but he's the one most consistently happy to be there. There's a lot to this, about laughing, releasing endorphins, and being legitimately, biologically good for you. I found myself thinking, "Say something funny and I'll do it." Unfortunately, he forgot that part. The high school science lesson was not enlightening; Everybody knows; Other comedians have said it, but it was a reminder that the problem today is not not laughing enough, but not having enough to laugh at. Director: Shannon Hartman Star: Jo Koy And Jo Koy is fascinated by “these days” in this special. The entire hour is about generational differences and rightfully contains not a single novel or moving observation on the subje...

 “The Price of Nonna's Inheritance” is an Italian film written and directed by Giovanni Bognetti and starring Christian De Sica, Angela Finocchiaro, Dharma Mangia Woods and Claudio Colica. “Nonna's Inheritance Price” is not a film that takes advantage of stunning cinematography or groundbreaking innovation. It draws on the strength of a simple but captivating idea: an intelligent comedy that resonates with audiences through intelligent dialogue and an unusual twist on traditional family dramas. An Italian film meticulously carved by Giovanni Bognetti, it features a cast of actors who bring the characters to life with innate charm and wit. Director: Giovanni Bognetti Writer: Giovanni Bognetti Stars: Fernando Albizu, Antonino Bruschetta, Claudio Colica In essence, “Nonna's Inheritance Price” recalls the humorous mix of traditional values ​​and macabre elements, similar to the 1944 classic “Arsenic and Old Lace.” However, it has its own distinctive notes. The premise of the fi...