Not So ‘Brand New’ Cherry Flavor
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.

At the end of a cicada-filled summer, Yen attends his final swimming lesson—the last practice with his coach, Shuan. Despite their difference in age, the ripples they create in the water speak of an unspoken bond. After class, Shuan takes Yen along quiet afternoon paths. Like brothers, yet something more, they share a gentle farewell to a summer meant only for the two of them.
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.
This Comedy-Drama set in Nazi Germany, shows a young boy, Jojo who wants to be Hitler's personal guard and even conjures up Hitler to be his imaginary friend. His nationalism and prejudices of Jews change when he discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his attic.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.
More than a coming-of-age story, Caity is a movie about losing the naivety of childhood before you're ready to.
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