Becky Sharp is a woman who came from very little, but who always had her ideals. This version of Vanity Fair follows her from childhood to school into marriage, her rise into the British aristocracy and what came after.
Special Delivery (2022) [Fantasia 2022]
This year’s viewings of films from Fantasia starts off strong with a film about a North Korean defector who works as a delivery driver for a company that handles what the post office and other delivery companies will not handle. One a run where she is supposed to pick up a father and son and bring them to the port, she ends up with the kid whose father has been murdered for what was in his possession and now those who killed him are after his child.
Short Films for You! France Edition
Today is Jour de la Bastille, which means, we should celebrate France. So, for this week’s crop of Short Films for You! we have 6 shorts that are either French or take place in France. These are all subtitled in English or shot in English. Without further ado, les voilà:
Halloween Hotness 8: Defying Gravity
It’s that time of year again! No, not festival season, well, ok, yeah, it’s festival season, but also Halloween is coming and we better all be getting ready. This also means that the year’s best party is coming up and as it’s for a good cause, I figured I’d bring it up here!
Diary of a Spy (2022)
An intelligence officer whose career is on the downfall gets a mission to befriend and recruit a man with ties to the Saudi Royal Family.
BAD MOVIE MONDAY: NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR (1985)
When COVID shut down everything two years ago, I started an online bad movie night get-together with some friends that we eventually dubbed “Bad Movie Monday”. The premise was simple: We’d torture each other every Monday with the worst trash we could find, tell a few jokes, cheer each other up, and in the process maybe discover some weird obscure cinema that we might never have seen any other way. This series of reviews will feature highlights of those night, so you guys can share in the fun and maybe get some ideas for your own movie night.
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American Carnage (2022)
Following a new government order to arrest them, teenage children of undocumented immigrants end up working at a rest home that has many secrets.