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Satanic Hispanics

directed by Mike Mendez, Demián Rugna, Eduardo Sánchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, and Alejandro Brugués, 2022

Too bad, she said she doesn't want you here when she gets back, because you've been ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak.

Uncle Rico - Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) dir. Jared Hess

☞About perfect movies (on location snippets)

I can still remember how during high school, Ro arrived to “Martes de Cinito” with an “amazing” movie he wanted to show us. 

I remember a before and after watching this movie. Soundtrack, costumes, comedy, acting, the attention to detail, everything is perfect. 

Also, the steak toss scene has got to be one of the funniest scenes ever filmed. 

Napoleon Dynamite forever. <3

You may have an awkward, shitty life. But you are just one dance away from turning things around.

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 American comedy film produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt and Sean Covel, written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and directed by Jared Hess. The film stars Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino, and Diedrich Bader.

Satanic Hispanics (2022)

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Lightyear (2022)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Lightyear has several sequences depicting very high-speed space travel, which have strobe effects that involve passing stars, flickering engines, and psychedelic imagery resembling similar moments from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Other frequent strobe effects include laser guns, sparks of damaged electrical equipment, and lights that flicker on and off. Almost all of the strobe effects are unpredictable, and occur during plot-important scenes.

As stated above there are several sequences of high-speed space travel. One extended sequence involves multiple zero-gravity environments. A late action sequence involves extremely disorienting spinning and rolling of the camera during a skydiving-type scene.

Flashing Lights: 10/10. Motion Sickness: 8/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: There are a few unpredictable jump scares.

Lightyear Review

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Due Justice

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Endgame (2015)

When someone tells me they liked something about a movie I didn’t enjoy, I listen to what they have to say in the hopes that their enthusiasm might make me see something I didn't. When it comes to 2015’s Endgame, nothing you could tell me would make me change my mind. This movie is so melodramatic and full of clichés I don’t understand how anyone could be fooled into thinking it was good.

Jose (Rico Rodriguez) has always felt like everyone - including his mother (Justina Machado) - has paid more attention to his older brother, Miguel (Xavier Gonzalez). The only exception is his grandmother (Ivonne Coll), who has been patiently teaching him to play chess ever since he could remember. After Miguel dies in a car accident, the family falls apart. Jose begins acting out and winds up in detention. There, Coach Alvarado (Efren Ramirez) has the bright idea to teach the children discipline through chess.

My synopsis doesn't give anything away. You can tell Miguel is going to die early on. After a brilliant soccer match victory, he and his two chucklehead buddies leave a party to go drink in their car. There might as well be a meter in the lower-left corner that reads “Odds of survival: 10%”. When they start driving, it dips to 5%. When the driver pulls out his phone, you know they’re all headed to the grave. You're not the only one who saw it coming because no one at the funeral seems surprised. There isn’t a tear shed. It’s the first time you realize just how unconvincing the performances are. They weren’t exactly stellar before, but they were passable in a “tv movie of the week” kind of way. Now, the plot’s actually starting and we’re in trouble.

I want to applaud director Carmen Marron, who also wrote the screenplay with Hector Salinas. It’s obvious everyone’s hearts were in the right place. There's passion behind this project. Unfortunately, it isn’t enough. Endgame is a parade of tropes. You can practically count down the minutes before mom and Grandma have an argument over Jose and how he's been ignored. What you don’t expect is for mom to yell “Chess has torn this family apart!”

Endgame is only partially a drama. It’s also a limpwristed sports movie and kind of a family-friendly comedy. It’s just that the execution is so off nothing ever hits the mark. Jose’s chess coach, for example. No one asked him to start a chess club but he did it anyway. Afterward, we constantly hear him complain that he’s had to take a second job and dip into his rent money to keep the club going. You’re not sure if he’s joking. His boss, Principal Thomas (Jon Gries) doesn’t seem to care whenever he hears him. I think it’s supposed to drive the point that these kids are POOR, that this school has no money, whatsoever. Instead of crying, you’ll be laughing.

You won't be able to hold back your laughs because the film never restrains itself. Every character speaks like they came out of a cartoon from the 70's. They speak perfect English but insist on slipping on Spanish word to remind you that they are immigrants. Speaking of which, it’s time to discuss Dani (Alina Herrera). She’s Jose’s best friend. They’re together for half the movie, until we see officials dragging her parents away to bring them back to Mexico. She runs towards them in tears. We never see her again and that's that.

As a drama, Endgame fails because the characters are thin and the emotions are laid on thick. As a sports movie, it fares even worse. Normally, you’d have someone unfamiliar with chess play the role of the audience avatar. It’s safe to assume most people know the basic rules, but castling? It’s done without anyone bothering to tell us why, or how. Worse, by the time we get to the big tournament, we haven’t gotten to know anyone except for Jose. It wouldn't be a big deal if the champion wasn't determined by their team's score. If Jose wins, he could still walk away with nothing. Did I mention none of this is explained? You’re as outraged as the parents whose children are cheated out of a trophy because the conclusion comes out of nowhere!

Endgame ends by giving us a text detailing the real-life school where these events “took place”. I can see why it was included but let's just say that this is not one of those cases where truth is stranger than fiction. Endgame is pretty funny to watch as the actors struggle with the material and the story clumsily tries to handle far more than it can. You might enjoy Endgame as a bad movie because inspirational? It is not. (April 15, 2021)

"Satanic Hispanics"

This movie was screened at Panic Fest. Anthology movies can often feel like brutal missteps with a massive swing in terms of entertainment value and overall quality. That’s not the case with “Satanic Hispanics,” a compilation of short films from some of the leading Latin filmmakers in the horror genre. The movie covers all the bases and includes elements from subgenres like action, supernatural…

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