Oscar Nominated Documentary: Mr Nobody Against Putin (Written Review)

 

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Directed by Pavel Talankin and David Borenstien

***** out of 5 *'s

This documentary is about a very brave person who fought back against Putin and his propaganda machine of making young students in Russia suppourt his war against Ukraine.  Teachers and other admistration are forced  to teach their students all sorts of lies about the other country to feed into Putin's own warped vison and to indocternate young children to be suppourtive of his attack on another country.   Pavel a Russian teacher and videographer  teams up with David, a Brittish documentary filmmaker to expose the lies young children are being taught in this very compelling film

Random thoughts of a Movie Insomniac (Reviews of The Testament of Ann Lee, Marty Supreme & more)

 The Vern gives short reviews to these movies on this episode

The Running Man (2025)

  Marty Supreme 

The King of Comedy

 The Testament of Ann Lee and more

The Vern's Almost Accurate 2026 Oscar Nominations Predictions.

 

Hello gang, The Vern here with a written post this time instead of an audio or video one.  Here to give you my predictions of the 2026 Academy Awards.  Now, I will do my best to try and predict what I think will be nominated in just the big categories.  I will give you my full predictions on the winners for all the categoreies after the actual nominees are announced

The Vern's Top 10 Movies of 2025 and 5 worst

 

The end of 2025 is here and so is my list of the best and worst movies, enjoy.

The Turing Test(2025) Written Review

 

The Turing Test

Cast: Marlene Fahnster, Richard Lingscheidt, Ozen Fiden

Writer and Director: Jaschar Marktanner

*** and a 1;/2 *'s out of Five Stars

This will contain  minor spoilers

Set mostly inside a infinite white void. A doctor named Sophie is busy preping her A.I.creation for an upcoming convention.  The goal is to make her peers in the scintific commuity belive that this unit can pass for a human being.  Sophie plans to do this with the help of the Turing Test but her creation does not think highly of this approach as it has some big limitations.   When the A.I. unit asks her about the process made so far, something strange happens.  Sophie stops in the middle of he statement and repeats the begining words she origianally spoke.  Revealing that she is the A. I. unit they are testin

My Recent Podcast Guest Spots on St. Paul Filmcast and That's Da Bomb Yo.

 

I was a recent guest on a few different podcasts and I want to take the time and highlight a few of them here.

Over on Rabbit Hole Podcasts.  Jason Soto bringe me on to That's Da Bomb You(Hella Rad Movies of the 90s) to talk about the contraversial film from the 90's, Kids.  A movie about disaffected teenagers living in New York City that features a young Chloe Sevingy and Rosario Dawson.    Listen below.

The Housemaid (2025) Non Spoiler Video Review.

 

The Vern takes a quick look at the big screen adaptation of the best selling book of the same name, The Housemaid. Starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried.