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: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...

:610: 224 - Daughters of the Dust (1991) - 6/10 - The film takes place on the Gullah Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia in 1902. The residents are descendants of slaves and maintain some of their own traditions. It's interesting for the setting and impressions you get, but not reall...

223 - The Beaches of Agnès (2008) - 8/10 - Agnès Varda looks back on her life and career. She narrates and uses photos, clips from her films, recreations of past events, and more to tell the story. It's pretty good and I enjoyed it.

25 - Ronja the Robber's Daughter (2014) - Mattis is the leader of a successful band of robbers. The group lives in an old damaged, but functional, castle along with Mattis's wife, Lovis. In the first episode, Lovis gives birth to Ronja and the girl grows up in the castle, doted on by the entire gro...

:6510: 215 - Kosmos (2009) - 6.5/10 - A mysterious stranger shows up in a small town during the winter just in time to save a boy from drowning. The people in the town are grateful, but suspicious as well. The man seems to have the power to heal others and himself, but speaks mostly in 'wise sayings...

:410: 210 - The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) - 4/10 - This is a weird film and not one I really enjoyed, though it's evident that a lot of thought and work was put into it. :710: 211 - One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) - 7/10 - Pauline is a teenager when she befriends Suzanne, a young woman who used t...

23 - Star Trek Lower Decks Season 3 (2022) - This continues to be a fun series. Season 4 comes out on BD/dvd next month, though I don't know when I'll get around to watching it. 24 - Star Trek Prodigy Season 1 (2021) - A group of teenage aliens live at a prison colony far from Federation space. Mos...

:710: 206 - Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) - 7/10 - Drac is about to retire and give the hotel to his daughter and son-in-law, but gets cold feet and backs out at the last second. This leads to the son-in-law thinking that he needs to be a monster to fit in to the family. The plot is fairl...

:7510: 205 - Adventures of Captain Vrungel (1976) - 7.5/10 - A sea captain and his student decide to join an international regatta. The regatta turns into quite the adventure, especially after a thief joins them onboard, along with their stolen goods. The animation is a bit different, but good. Ther...

:310: 199 - Arabesk (1989) - 3/10 - Two people who have loved each other since childhood are kept apart due to misunderstandings and through the actions of others. :6510: 200 - Destiny / Kader (2006) - 6.5/10 - Bekir runs his father's rug store and falls for a young woman named Ugur who comes into h...

:810: 193 - Outrage (1950) - 8/10 - A young woman gets engaged, but is raped on her way home from work shortly thereafter. This traumatizes her and she tries to escape from her problems. Mala Powers gives a nice performance. :610: 194 - Wendy and Lucy (2008) - 6/10 - Wendy is driving to Alaska with ...