Out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD August 27, 2024
After his father’s arrest during the Spanish Civil War, a young boy must learn a new life and decide where he stands between his parents’ clashing ideologies.
Tag Archives: Drama
American Daydream (2024)
Where is the American dream bred? In the heart or in the head? Director-Writer Ziyu Luo’s “American Daydream” is a classic ode to the idea of the American dream and our pursuit of it. Is the “American Dream” an unreachable goal, or something that we each have within us, personally? Recently having its world premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival, “American Daydream” is a brilliant beautiful short drama comedy that explores ideas about immigration, assimilation and Americanization.
The Double Crossers (aka Gui ji shuang xiong) (1976) [Eureka Entertainment]
Available from Eureka Entertainment
Following the death of his father, a detective goes looking for answers and soon finds out that not everyone one his father was associated with wanted the best for him.
There’s A Zombie Outside (2024) [Popcorn Frights 2024]
It should go without saying that I really wanted to love Michael Varrati’s “There’s a Zombie Outside”; somewhere deep down there’s a great film thar doesn’t pitch itself as one thing and is really something else. What I initially assumed was some kind of supernatural descent in to horror transforms in to what is basically “Adaptation” but for the horror sect. It’s an eighty minute horror themed drama about impostor syndrome, and trying to complete a product of love before it begins consuming our lives.
Rani DeMuth, Director of “And Now I Lay Me Down”
Now on the festival circuit, “And Now I Lay Me Down” is a stellar drama comedy starring Jane Kaczmarek of “Malcolm in the Middle” fame. The great short is directed by Rani DeMuth a charming and clever filmmaker and storyteller who took time out to discuss her process making the movie and what it was like working with an actress of Kaczmarek’s caliber. Look out for “And Now I Lay Me Down.”
Beast Fighter: Karate Bullfighter (aka Champion of Death) (1975) [Eureka Entertainment]
Available from Eureka Entertainment as a 2-disc set with Beast Fighter: Karate Bearfighter.
Inspired by the life of Choi Bae-dal who was later known as Masutatsu Oyama, a Korean martial artist who founded Kyokushin Karate in Japan.
And Now I Lay Me Down (2024)
I really have to give it to Jane Kaczmarek who stars in “And Now I Lay Me Down.” She really is a marvel in what is a pretty gut wrenching movie that approaches a serious topic with a tongue in cheek. Kaczmarek is essentially the only cast member in the entirety of Rani DeMuth’s short drama comedy and commands a lot of the screen with such an immense powerful and intense sadness.