Showing posts with label minneapolis st paul international film festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minneapolis st paul international film festival. Show all posts

Monday, April 14, 2025

Savages (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/




Savages(MSPIFF 44)

Cast: Babette De Coster, Martin Verset,Laetittia Dosch

Writers: Catherine Paille, Claude Barras

Director: Claude Barras

 *** out of Five *'s


An entertaining stop motion animated feature about a young girl who learns about her true family as they help defend their land from deforestation.  Savages will help young children and even some adults learn not to judge anything by just it’s appearance and standing up for what you know is right.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Tiny Lights (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/




Tiny Lights (MSPIFF 44)

Cast: Mia Banko, Elizaveta Maximova,Veronika Zilkova

Writer and Director: Beta Parkanova

* and a 1/2 out of Five Stars


A little girl spends the day with her grandparents after discovering her mother is leaving.  Not fully aware that her parents are separating.  During the beautiful day with Grandma and Grandpa, they go swimming and have a picnic.  Later on her dad reads her a story before bed.   She wakes up in the middle of the night, looks out a window and… that’s it.  The end.

Monday, April 22, 2024

MSPIFF 2024: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person.

 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






Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Cast: Sara Montpetit, Felix Antione Benard, Noemie O'Farrell

Writers: Christine Doyon, Ariane Louis-Seize

Director: Ariane Louis-Seize



Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a young vampire with a very peculiar problem.  Even though she needs blood to survive she just cant kill another person in order to do it.  Her frustatred parents cut off her blood bag suply and send her to live with her cousin Denise (Noemie O'Farrell) in hopes that she will gain her thirst back.  Our young would be blood sucker meets Paul( Felix Antione Benard) a depressed young man who wants very much to die and the two form an odd but beneficial friendship of sorts.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

MSPIFF 2024: Stripped for Parts:American Jounalism on the Brink (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



Stripped for Parts:American Jounalism on the Brink

Director: Rick Goldsmith


This documentary from Rick Goldsmith is about how owners of hedge fund corporations like Alden Global Capital are buying out news outlets and screwing over many professional journalists out of a job.   Featuring interviews with many real life reporters who have broken some really iconic stories from the past.  This was a very insightful documentary that I wish had a little bit more of a fight in it is all.

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.



Go to 

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.

Sunday, April 14, 2024

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.

Go to 

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.

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