“Driveways”
"Driveways" is a nuanced portrait of an Asian American family, touching on themes of loss, growth, and belonging.

The filmmaker visits her dying father, a Cuban exile in Texas, for the last time. When she leaves, nothing remains: neither the father nor the country where she was born. A farewell letter to all that was lost and a welcome to the future.
"Driveways" is a nuanced portrait of an Asian American family, touching on themes of loss, growth, and belonging.
The 2019 film, Vai, takes us through eight stories across the islands of Oceania. The settings are unbelievably beautiful, the cast is beautiful, the languages are beautiful, and the stories are beautiful…but heartbreaking.
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.
When it comes the horror genre, I am VERY hard to please or impress, much less scare. Coming from a current mindset of appreciation for chilling, unsettling, tension-inducing efforts such as "Hereditary", "The Conjuring" (ONLY the first one to date, mind you), "Lights Out", "The Babadook", "Midsommar", "Talk To Me", "Oddity", "Bring Her Back", and the like
It is as bad as your remember, and you are fortunate if you've never watched it. Keep it that way!
While subverting the conventions of Golden Age cinema with the characteristics of a slasher, Pearl studies the delusions of grandeur inspired by the movies.