The Legend of Ochi(2025) Written Review

 

The Legend of Ochi

Cast Willem Dafoe, Finn Wolfhard, Helena Zengel

Writer and Director: Isaiah Saxxon

 **** and a 1/2 *'s  out of Five

Set on the magical island of Carpathia in a remote village.  A young girl named Yuri(Helena Zengel) has been told by her family and father Maxim(William Dafoe) to fear and hunt a certain species of creatures called Ochi.  After finding one of their young wounded.  Yuri sets out on a quest to return them to it’s family.

The Florida Project(2017) w/ Nick Palodichuck of St Paul Filmcast

 

Our series on director Sean Baker begins with one of his most acclaimed films before he won big with Anora. The Florida Project is about a little girl named Mooney(Brooklynn Prince) who lives in a low income hotel with her mother Halley( Bria Vinaite), gets free ice cream with her friends and gets on the nerve(without really meaning too of the hotel manager, Bobby(William Dafoe)