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Pinocchio (2022)
Millennials will never understand
Despite the harsh and cynical reviews, this live-action "Pinocchio" is an mirror image to Disney's 1940. I watched two films back to back and the live-action is as pure and wholesome as the 1940 version.
It's amazing how the same reviewers calling out all the CGI effects in this "Pinocchio" are the same fans of; Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Guardians of the Galaxy, Eternals, The Little Mermaid 2023, Marvel Studios' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Avengers: Endgame. Cause there's no CGI in those films. But this live-action "Pinocchio" CGI effects are everywhere.
If you love the 1940's version this live-action "Pinocchio" is a delight.
Homicidal Crimes (2021)
Modern day Film Noir
Christopher Nolan has influenced a trove of ambitious filmmakers from London to Sydney to L. A. The Alamo City is no stranger to crime or to the filmmakers who crave to comment on it. Nolan is a busy man, crafting some of the biggest and most important hits in Hollywood history, but if he had a Texas minute, he would smirk with influence and appreciation for a short film conceived by San Antonio based writer/director Robert Cantu.
Cantu, like Nolan, refuses to be bound by time or the binds of color, using black and white to his advantage just as Nolan has (Following, parts of Memento). Homicidal Crimes brings a rusty quality to the characters and the tableau that the director finds. This is not your 1940's film noir. Modern day detectives must track down a killer in a logical, linear fashion. But the audience isn't afforded the same way to process the narrative. The detectives, like Scully and Mulder, bring an intellectual approach to hunting the hunter.
Detective Salazar (Karina Carielo) is in charge of everything but her temper, and Detective Anderson (Scotty Walker) is the voice of reason in a town in which reason seems a relic of the past.
Jason C Campbell as Jack Kimo leaps off the screen as the man we love to hate. We are not quite sure who is angrier at the dark world of Alamo City, Detective Salazar or Kimo. Another candidate for anger management sessions is Captain Eschenburg played by charismatic Mike Dell. With an authoritative voice and presence, one just thanks fate that he was never a grade school teacher of yours or mine.
The acting in this short film is subtle enough to be believed, and intense enough to grab attention.
The brightest star of the film is the imaginative narrative style presented by Robert Cantu. We watch back and forth, trying to figure out how enforcement makes an unsafe city safer.
In a crucial scene, Cantu uses mise-en-scene to have things play out with a train flowing in the background. The trains in South Texas run on time, and so do the cops.
Non-diegetic sound revs up the intensity throughout. Yes, Nolan would smirk with pride at his influence on filmmaker Robert Cantu. More to come from both.
Teenage Vampire (2020)
Pure family fun
Teenage Vampire is one of those movies you grew up watching, it's exciting, thrilling, action, and most of all fun. This movie has characters are relatable reminding you of those movies you grew up watching.
This is a movie movie to watch with a date, all friends around together, and family movie night.
Us (2019)
It's so Overcompensated
Where did the double set of people come from? How and why do they exist in the first place? The writing of this film showed no effort to give any back story of the reason these "underground people" come from. I'll call them "underground people" cause Jordan Peele didn't bother naming them. These "underground people" just mysterious pop out and there they are without any why, where or what they are. The high reviews of this film are nothing but "overcompensation" for what reason, I'll never know.
The writing was weak, it failed to write how those "underground people" exist, the threat was weak and I never felt the family was in any real danger.
The movie is well acted, cast, (even) directing, and most of all I love the musical score of the film. The score is one of the best I heard in a film and so on-point to the horror/thriller genre.