Four Rooms (1995) w/ Scott K of The Church of Tarantino podcast

 

For this episode of Recalling Rodriguez we are discussing the antholgy film, Four Rooms and more specifically. The third section called, The Misbehaviors. Featuring Antonio Banderas and Tamlyn Tomita as two parents who want to celebrate New Years Eve but don't have anyone to watch over their two kids( Lana McKissack, Danny Verduzco). So in enters Ted THe Bellboy( Tim Roth) who is paid a lot of money to babysit them. What could possibly go wrong??

Joining The Vern to discuss this short film from Robert Rodriguez is The Reverend Scott K from The Church of Tarantino Podcast

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

Liquor Bank 2025 Short Film - Written Review

 

Liquor Bank

Cast: Antwone Barnes, Sean Alexander James

Writer and Director:Marcellus Cox

**** out of Five *'s

Incredible drama about a young man who relaps into drinking after being sober for a year and the one man who still wants to fight for him.  This is a well shot, tightly edited chamber style drama that takes place in just one setting.  Not an easy feat to pull off but director Marcellus Cox does a great job with the material.

Enter The Room - Short Movie Review

 

Enter The Room  - Short Movie Review

 Cast: Peter Mastne,  Rich Holton 

Writer and Director: Harry Waldman

*** and a ½ *’s out of Five

Jeremy(Rich Holton) goes to live with his brother Brian (Peter Mastine) while he’s acting in a indie film.  Tensions begin to rise between the two siblings when  Jeremy can’t pay his rent right away and Brian has way too many rules about his place.   

I know What You Need (2023) Written Review

 

I Know What You Need

Cast: Caroline Renee, William Champion, Giovanna Drummond

Writers: Stephen King (Story) Julia Marchese(Screenplay)

Director: Julia Marchese

***** out of Five Stars

When Elizabeth Rogen (Caroline Renee) first met Edward Jackson Hamner jr (William Champion).  She though he was a little off.  Showing up to the library in mismatched socks and offering her ice cream was not anything she was expecting, but it was a nice gesture.  What really drew her to him was that he seemed to know the struggles she was facing in a certain class and was able to easily solve them.  After a bad tragedy where Elizabeth lost her boyfriend in a car accident.  Edward magically shows up to help her with her grief and the two eventually start dating.  Everything about him seems sweet and romantic to her, The only person who has distrust about Edward is Elizabeth's roommate Alice McGee (Giovanna Drummond).  Is she just jealous or is there something hidden about this guy we don't know.

Paul Laurence Dunbar: An American Poet (written review)

 

At a dinner table in Dayton Ohio in 1903.  Forty years after the Emancipation Proclamation.  Mayor Snyder and his cohort sit with poet and activist Paul Laurence Dunbar along with his mother.  The plan was to have Paul share the stage with the mayor for the upcoming 4^th of July and recite a poem.  However the Mayor is having second thoughts because of what public opinion will say on the matter of Mr. Dunbar removing a hat or not during the national anthem.

This is a well enough acted short and many of the themes presented within are still relevant to this day.  I was impressed that director Kane Stratton casted a woman in the lead role of a man and thought A. Slate did a great job as the lead.  Timothy J Cox became lost in the character of the Mayor but that’s also true for many of his performances.

However the music in this just took me out of the movie entirely.  It did not set the tone for this story one bit.  It would be an alight fit for an Irish folk tale, but not one dealing with race.   

 

**’s Out of 5.