A Teenage Girl's Guide to Summon a Demon 

The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.

Tran Quoc Bao succeeds in telling us a story about martial arts, human decay, and friendship. The originality shown by his filmmaking is admirable and brings fresh air to the classic Chinese martial arts genre.

It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.

Initially feeling like a passionate group having a bit of harmless fun with filmmaking, it leads to something sinister enough to leave a mark.

Can a piece of bad representation truly be reclaimed? We Are Pat (2025) attempts to answer this question.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?