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:710: 274 - The Arch (1968) - 7/10 - A cavalry captain comes to stay the night at a school run by a wealthy widow. The woman falls for the captain, but so does her daughter. It was okay, but fairly slow. :710: 275 - The Holy Girl (2004) - 7/10 - Amalia is a teenage girl who lives in a rundown hotel ...

Welcome Home, Franklin (2024) (39 minutes)
For Auld Lang Syne (2021) (38 minutes)
It’s the Small Things (2022) (38 minutes)
To Mom (and Dad), with Love (2022) (38 minutes)

:510: 267 - Calendar (1993) - 5/10 - A photographer traveled to Armenia with his wife to take pictures of old churches for a calendar. His wife served as translator for the guide who tells stories about the places they visit. A lot of this is told in flashback as his wife apparently stayed behind wh...

The Harveytoons Show 4 disc set. This is labeled as being the 'complete collection', but only contains 52 of the 78 episodes. Kind of formulaic and generally not as good as the Disney cartoons, but still entertaining enough. Lots of Casper, Little Audrey, Baby Huey, Herman, Katnip, and Buzzy the Cro...

:710: 260 - Obvious Child (2014) - 7/10 - Donna (Jenny Slate) is a stand up comic who is struggling to make a living, but finds herself pregnant after a one night stand. She decides to have an abortion, but struggles to tell her mom and the man she had a one night stand with, even though he seems in...

:7510: 256 - Double Happiness (1994) - 7.5/10 - Jade Li (Sandra Oh) is a young Chinese-Canadian woman whose parents want her to meet a nice Chinese boy and keep setting her up for dates. She is more concerned with getting her acting career off the ground. She meets a nice young white man and the two...

:710: 255 - Orion and the Dark (2024) - 7/10 - Orion is a boy who is afraid of pretty much everything. One night, the supernatural entity Dark has had enough of the kids screaming and fears at night and shows up in Orion's bedroom to take him on a trip to try and help him get over his fears. The end...

30 - Mech Cadets (2023) - Earth in the late 21st Century is the subject of giant crab like aliens known as the Sharg. Earth is protected by a defense grid and by alien robots with human pilots. Stanford dreams of being a mech pilot and has put in hundreds of hours in simulators, but wasn't accepted...

:610: 251 - By the Bluest of Seas (1936) - 6/10 - Two sailors are shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea near a fishing village. They make themselves useful by working for the the fishing boats. Each sailor falls in love with the same woman which causes some minor tension. The acting is kind of...

:7510: 244 - White Material (2009) - 7.5/10 - Isabelle Huppert stars as a white woman trying to save her coffee plantation in colonial Africa amidst a civil war. The workers are abandoning the plantation, her son is mentally unstable and useless, and violence and corruption seem to be everywhere. Hu...

:8510: 240 - Dalva (2022) - 8.5/10 - The film starts with a young girl being taken away from her home by police in the middle of the night as they arrest her father. Dalva is 12, but dresses and acts older. She is taken to a shelter where she struggles to learn how to be a girl rather than trying to...

28 - Snoopy In Space Season 1 (2019) - Snoopy and Woodstock become astronauts and travel to the ISS and the moon. The rest of the Peanuts gang act as mission controllers. It was fun. 29 - Snoopy in Space Season 2 (2021) - The Peanuts crew uses the facilities at NASA to explore the possibility of li...

:710: 237 - Trolls World Tour (2020) - 7/10 - The Rock Trolls are trying to take over the whole Troll world and make them all the same. This was fun, like the first film. :6510: 238 - Trolls Band Together (2023) - 6.5/10 - One of Branch's brothers is being held captive and drained of his musical tal...

:7510: 232 - Dune Part Two (2024) - 7.5/10 - This had great visuals like the first part and is a decent film, but it also had me a bit bored at times like the first part as well. :6510: 233 - The Broken Landlord (1985) - 6.5/10 - Things seem to be going pretty well for a village landowner. Then his ...

:810: 230 - Takva (2006) - 8/10 - Muharrem is a simple and devout man whose life changes when the Sheikh at his holy place asks him to start collecting the rents for the places owned by the institution. This pushes Muharrem out of his comfort zone and into the wider world. He starts being plagued by...