"Desert Warrior": Just Watch It
While everyone was going gaga over The Odyssey, Desert Warrior was quietly taking audiences on an epic Arabian “knights of the sand table” adventure

Anick, introverted and bullied, becomes an unlikely hero when an AI in shape of a fierce Medieval girl reaches out through time, seeking help to defeat the Rat King, a creature who wants to build a shadow realm of hate and lies. Rat King is a 3D animated adventurous feature film, for a target audience 10 years old up to all ages. While it tells the exciting and funny present-day story of Anick, a 13-year-old girl, it refers to German fairy tales as well as to Japanese anime and pop culture combined with queries about how social media and AI changes the way we define ourselves.
While everyone was going gaga over The Odyssey, Desert Warrior was quietly taking audiences on an epic Arabian “knights of the sand table” adventure
Korean culture shines in this Canadian export.
Crazy Rich Asians. The title is tacky, but the actual movie is both heartwarming and cosmopolitan. After all, it takes place in Singapore!
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is a fan-favorite, as are some of the more science fiction angled movies like 28 Days Later or World War Z. I recently watched the 1995 Wolfgang Peterson-directed movie, Outbreak for the first time, which is currently available on Netflix.
This showcase of Hollywood’s finest talent will certainly be around come awards season, and much deserved
This emotional, frightening, and dreamlike story examines the ways actresses are exploited in the name of art.