Stationed at Home(2025) Written Review

 

Stationed at Home

Cast: Erik Bjarnar, Darryle Johnson, Eliza VanCort,

Director: Daniel V Masciari

 ** and a 1/2 *'s out of Five

 https://www.stationedathome.com/

On Christmas Eve in 1998, a cab driver named Ralph(Erik Bjarnar) looks forward to seeing the international space station pass over his home once he is done with his shift.  Working the graveyard shift for a budget cab company, was usually Ralph’s preferred shift, but seeing this once in a life time event was too important to miss.  During his shift we are introduced to a bunch of ecentric and off beat characters. Including, Harry(Darryl Johnson) and George(Peter Foster Morris) two friends out for a good time.  Who unfortunately bring on a drunk, coked out third wheel named Jack(Jeff Dumont) after losing a game of pool.  There is also a mysterious woman who calls herself Elaine(Eliza VanCort) who checks into a motel to write a story.

Grand Tour (MSPIFF 44)

 

   The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is a yearly event featuring many great features from around the world.  Learn more about MSP Films and how to submit your feature for next year https://mspfilm.org/

Grand Tour 

Cast: Crista Alfaite, Goncalo Waddington, Lang Khe Tran

Writers – Too Many to List

Director: Miguel Gomes

 * out of Five Stars.

Grand Tour is separated into two parts.  The first part follows Edward(Goncalo Waddington).  A man on the run,trying his best to avoid his fiancé from finding him.   The second half involves Molly stopping at nothing and finding amusement in searching for him. 

Right in the Eye: Live Movie Concert of George Melies Films (MSPIFF 44)

   The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival  is a yearly event featuring many great features from around the world.  Learn more about MSP Films and how to submit your feature for next year https://mspfilm.org/

Right in the Eye: Live Movie Concert of Geroge Melies Films (MSPIFF 44)

Performers:

Jean Francois Alcolea - Creator, keyboard, string structure, and musical compositions,

Fabrice Favriou -  Drums and Guitar

Thomas Desmartis - Sound , Keyboard, Percussions

Mathieu Lucas - Sound Light and Video Manager

The films of George Melies are absoulte magic.  He was one of the pioneers of using elaborate editing techniques, make up and set desgins to create some of the most astounding specical effects which are still impressive to this day.  Right in The Eye is a collection of 12 of his short silent films composed by the great musicians and artists of Alcolea & Cie.

https://alcolea-cie.net/en/right-in-the-eye/

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (MSPIFF 44)

 The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival  is a yearly event featuring many great features from around the world.  Learn more about MSP Films and how to submit your feature for next year https://mspfilm.org/

Marlee Matlin:  Not Alone Anymore (MSPIFF 44)

Cast: Marlee Matlin, Henry Winkler

Director: Shoshannah Stern

 ****  out of Five *'s

Marlee Matlin won an Oscar for her work in Children of a Lesser God in 1986.  At the time she was the only deaf person to receive an award for acting(until Troy Kostur won for his work in Coda in 2021)  After her Oscar win, Marlee became the poster person for a lot of deaf people around the world.  Being tasked with this responsiblity at such a young age has giving this woman success but also a lot of stress as well.

 

MSPIFF 2024: The Movie Teller (Movie Review)

The Minneapolis Flim Society along with The Main Cinema presents  The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival 2024.   A yearly celebration of all the wonderful movies from around the world.  From April 11 through April 25 2024, I will be reviwing a different movie from the many   featured during this event.

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https://mspfilm.org  to learn more

The Movie Teller

Cast: Sara Becker,Berenice Bejo, Daniel Bruhl

Writers: Walter Salles, Rafa Russo, Isabel Coixet

Director: Lone Scherfig

In a small mining town in Chile set in the late 60's.  A young woman becomes the resident move teller for first her family and then her whole comminity in this very refeshing tale of how much movies can impact and influence our lives.

MSPIFF 2024: Working Class Goes to Hell (Movie Review)

 

The Minneapolis Flim Society along with The Main Cinema presents  The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival 2024.   A yearly celebration of all the wonderful movies from around the world.  From April 11 through April 25 2024, I will be reviwing a different movie from the many   featured during this event.

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https://mspfilm.org  to learn more

Working Class Goes to Hell

Cast: Tamara Krcunovic, Leon Lucev, Szilivia Kriszan

Writer and Director:Miaden Djordjevic

After a factory closes down and workers start getting laid off.  A small group starts to comminucate with the dead in order to seek revenge from their employers.

The primise of this made think this was going to be an Office Space style comedy but with zombies or a bunch of demons get released and wreck havoc on the upper rich. Imaging Pinhead and the other Cenobites from Hellraiser visiting an office is what I kind of expected from this  While it does have the poor getting their revenge on the managment that let them go.  There is very little supernatural elements in this movie besides one character seeing ghostly images and the group performing seances and rituals here and there. 

MSPIFF 2024: Day Dreaming (Movie Review)

The Minneapolis Flim Society along with The Main Cinema presents  The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival 2024.   A yearly celebration of all the wonderful movies from around the world.  From April 11 through April 25 2024, I will be reviwing a different movie from the many   featured during this event.

Go to 

https://mspfilm.org  to learn more

Day Dreaming

Cast: Yue Hao, Tiantian Fan, Donghai Fang, 

Writer and Director: Zichuan Wang

This charming movie follows the day in the life of a young boy who was a very vivid and wild imagination.  While on his way to school he imagines that tall birds are theifs and that's why he was unable to turn in his homework assignment. When a teacher gives him a replacement to take home.  There is a creature that looks like a pile of crap who says that it loves to eat paper.  Also earlier that same teacher gets into a fight with an Alien because our hero imagines it as well.

Reviews of Emily The Criminal and Marcel The Shell With Shoes On. (MSPIFF 41)

 

Hello gang

Ashley and The Vern return from a screening at the Minneapolis / St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) to give you brief reviews of 2 movies they saw there. Emily The Criminal, starring Aubrey Plaza, and Marcel The Shell with Shoes on, starring Jenny Slate.