UDT Special Report: Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2024 FT/Rick of Sigma DuoCast

1 00:00:00,017 --> 00:00:03,677 Hey everyone, Uncle Dad here, and we've got a very special, unique, 2 00:00:03,897 --> 00:00:08,937 probably the first time we have done this, we have worked with our good friend 3 00:00:08,937 --> 00:00:14,997 from Sigma Duocast, the one and only Rick, or I like to call him Sexy Rick. 4 00:00:15,077 --> 00:00:19,697 Now Sexy Rick is going to be our junior reporter, more like a film critic if 5 00:00:19,697 --> 00:00:23,777 you will, and he will be helping us out a lot with different things that we 6 00:00:23,777 --> 00:00:26,437 can't do for certain on-the-field jobs. 7 00:00:26,437 --> 00:00:31,657 For example, we get asked to do a lot of film reviews and stuff along those 8 00:00:31,657 --> 00:00:35,737 lines, and we can't always get to that, and we want to provide the most content for our audience. 9 00:00:36,037 --> 00:00:40,937 What we're doing now is teaming up with Rick, or Sexy Rick, and he will be kind 10 00:00:40,937 --> 00:00:44,157 of our go-to guy for film reviews if we can't get to them. 11 00:00:44,357 --> 00:00:47,757 Without further ado, I really cannot wait to introduce this episode, 12 00:00:47,897 --> 00:00:52,537 so let me introduce it. We are going to be doing a special coverage on the Santa 13 00:00:52,537 --> 00:00:56,617 Barbara International Film Festival that just passed literally last weekend. 14 00:00:56,797 --> 00:01:03,917 So when you hear this, like last weekend, it was going on from the 7th through the 14th of February. 15 00:01:04,057 --> 00:01:08,417 It was such a great time. You know, from what I had seen and been continually 16 00:01:08,417 --> 00:01:11,457 staying in research with, the films there were just incredible. 17 00:01:11,777 --> 00:01:15,037 And Rick had a lot of great things to say about the films that he reviewed. 18 00:01:15,037 --> 00:01:21,357 Not only did Rick review actual film, he reviewed one full-length picture and a bunch of shorts. 19 00:01:21,457 --> 00:01:24,357 You'll get to experience all that in two parts in this episode. 20 00:01:24,577 --> 00:01:27,957 And I really can't tell you enough. Go check out Rick. Go check out his podcast. 21 00:01:28,177 --> 00:01:32,617 It's called Sigma Duocast. You can find that on pretty much any streaming platform. 22 00:01:32,937 --> 00:01:34,237 You can find that on Instagram. 23 00:01:34,617 --> 00:01:39,317 It's literally just Sigma Duocast. One word, check him out. 24 00:01:39,677 --> 00:01:42,737 Again, thank you, Rick, for being a part of the team. Thank you for being a 25 00:01:42,737 --> 00:01:44,697 part of our little Uncle Dad universe. 26 00:01:45,037 --> 00:01:48,397 And thank you guys for listening. If you guys like this film review stuff, 27 00:01:48,577 --> 00:01:52,497 please hit me up at UncleDad at UncleDadTalks.com. 28 00:01:52,637 --> 00:01:56,117 And then we can throw some more films in our way. If there's stuff you want 29 00:01:56,117 --> 00:01:58,617 to see that we review, do we do big time reviews? I don't know. 30 00:01:58,817 --> 00:02:05,117 I want to do more reviews to provide more content for our listeners, for our fan base. 31 00:02:05,257 --> 00:02:08,537 And really, I just can't thank you enough. And I hope you guys appreciate this content. 32 00:02:08,697 --> 00:02:13,237 So again, check out Rick of Sigma Duocast. You can find him on any streaming 33 00:02:13,237 --> 00:02:16,857 platform and then of course, go to his social media. 34 00:02:17,197 --> 00:02:19,737 That's going to be Sigma duo cast one word. 35 00:02:20,597 --> 00:02:23,537 And yeah, without further ado, I'm going to hand it over to Rick. 36 00:02:23,737 --> 00:02:25,497 Rick, tell them what you saw. 37 00:02:26,757 --> 00:02:33,037 What's up everyone i am rick from sigma do a cast or as uncle dad likes to call me sexy rick, 38 00:02:33,717 --> 00:02:38,377 uncle dad asked me to cover a few films from the santa barbara international 39 00:02:38,377 --> 00:02:43,977 film festival which i was more than excited to do so so thank you to uncle dad 40 00:02:43,977 --> 00:02:48,317 for allowing me to cover a couple of these as well as thank you to santa barbara 41 00:02:48,317 --> 00:02:51,597 international film festival for hosting such such a wonderful event. 42 00:02:52,457 --> 00:02:56,537 I, a lot of people don't realize that, you know, when you go to the bigs, 43 00:02:56,537 --> 00:02:57,977 to the theaters, the big screen, 44 00:02:58,097 --> 00:03:01,917 what have you, like there's a place where a lot of these creative individuals 45 00:03:01,917 --> 00:03:07,757 start from, you know, whether it's making movies from your own garage and putting 46 00:03:07,757 --> 00:03:10,797 them on YouTube nowadays or anything like that. 47 00:03:10,857 --> 00:03:16,937 Film festivals is like the heart of a lot of the film industry where a lot of 48 00:03:16,937 --> 00:03:20,897 people get to express a lot of the creativity, a unique creativity as well. 49 00:03:21,457 --> 00:03:26,957 So I'm always, always interested what you can find at a film festival. 50 00:03:27,197 --> 00:03:34,117 So I was able to view five shorts and one featured film. 51 00:03:34,237 --> 00:03:38,717 And I'm excited to bring that to you guys today, sharing my perspective and 52 00:03:38,717 --> 00:03:42,357 my thoughts on these five shorts and feature film. 53 00:03:43,517 --> 00:03:49,917 So I'm going to be giving you guys kind of like a review, but I want it to be 54 00:03:49,917 --> 00:03:55,637 more just like sharing my perspective, my own thoughts and opinion on these films. 55 00:03:56,357 --> 00:03:59,837 At the end of the day, you know, I don't want to let me say this. 56 00:03:59,917 --> 00:04:03,397 I don't want it to be where I'm like telling you, oh, this is good and this is bad. 57 00:04:03,537 --> 00:04:07,277 And you go, oh, OK, well, they said it was bad. 58 00:04:07,297 --> 00:04:10,217 Therefore, I don't want to mess with it. But if there's anything that bugs me 59 00:04:10,217 --> 00:04:15,757 nowadays is that there's people specifically on social media or what have you 60 00:04:15,757 --> 00:04:20,057 where they have a big following and a powerful voice and they say, this is no good. 61 00:04:20,177 --> 00:04:26,597 And then, you know, all 1,000 million billions, whomever followers go, 62 00:04:26,717 --> 00:04:28,177 this person said it's no good. 63 00:04:28,237 --> 00:04:30,697 Therefore, it must be no good. I don't want to watch it. 64 00:04:31,547 --> 00:04:35,207 And that's not the case because there's a lot of things in this world where, 65 00:04:35,207 --> 00:04:41,387 or at least in media, where a movie is universally well-received and there are people that hate it. 66 00:04:41,707 --> 00:04:45,747 And then there's movies that are universally received as bad, 67 00:04:45,907 --> 00:04:47,607 but there are people that love it. 68 00:04:47,787 --> 00:04:52,367 So at the end of the day, it's whatever your opinion you have on the project 69 00:04:52,367 --> 00:04:53,847 or the film or whatever it is. 70 00:04:54,327 --> 00:04:58,387 That's all that matters. If you like it, great. If you don't, you don't. But my goal, 71 00:04:58,527 --> 00:05:04,427 ultimately, whenever I do film reviews or share my thought on something is to 72 00:05:04,427 --> 00:05:07,287 just enlighten my point of view, my perspective, 73 00:05:07,387 --> 00:05:13,367 how it relates to me with the intent and ultimate goal that hopefully it creates 74 00:05:13,367 --> 00:05:16,547 interest for you to check out something that you otherwise wouldn't. 75 00:05:16,787 --> 00:05:23,367 I think ultimately that's what we utilize reviews for and what we try to get from reviews. 76 00:05:23,527 --> 00:05:26,807 But a lot of people don't see it that way. It's more of like, 77 00:05:26,907 --> 00:05:29,147 this person said it sucks, therefore it sucks. 78 00:05:29,747 --> 00:05:33,587 Instead of just taking like, hey, this is what I think about it. 79 00:05:33,607 --> 00:05:35,187 This is how it correlated with me. 80 00:05:35,727 --> 00:05:40,387 You know, if you happen to like my opinion, then maybe it might be some, 81 00:05:40,527 --> 00:05:44,407 if I say, you know, if I share it truthfully, maybe you'd be like, oh, well, you know what? 82 00:05:45,127 --> 00:05:49,007 Maybe I should check that out and see if it's any good or what have you. 83 00:05:49,787 --> 00:05:55,487 So again, that's my ultimate goal. Now, this is my first time reviewing films from a film festival. 84 00:05:56,027 --> 00:06:00,867 Therefore, I'm going to tailor these reviews a little bit differently. 85 00:06:01,307 --> 00:06:07,847 In addition, I'm going to make this kind of quick because I did five shorts and a feature film. 86 00:06:08,147 --> 00:06:12,487 I don't want to spend too much, like a lot of time on this because obviously 87 00:06:12,487 --> 00:06:15,167 I can probably speak for a couple hours. 88 00:06:16,630 --> 00:06:22,650 Ultimately, when I say it's short, I'm not going to be diving into much of the details of the film. 89 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:28,250 The directors, the actors, writers, backstories, behind the scenes, things of that nature. 90 00:06:28,410 --> 00:06:32,110 I'm just going to get really straight to it. I'm just going to give you guys 91 00:06:32,110 --> 00:06:40,030 a scoring system that I use, which is a five-point system, where 0.5 is the lowest, 92 00:06:40,290 --> 00:06:44,110 where I didn't really care for it, and 5 being the highest. 93 00:06:44,110 --> 00:06:46,990 Biased now just because again like i said if i give 94 00:06:46,990 --> 00:06:49,670 it a 0.5 that doesn't mean the movie's bad or anything i mean 95 00:06:49,670 --> 00:06:52,450 just wasn't for me specifically and the 96 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:55,190 way i generally break down these reviews it's kind of 97 00:06:55,190 --> 00:07:00,190 like an utilizing that five point system train of thought so the first one would 98 00:07:00,190 --> 00:07:03,590 be story and plot just kind of what was the story about was the plot was it 99 00:07:03,590 --> 00:07:08,350 good did i you know was i smart enough to get it or understand it or anything 100 00:07:08,350 --> 00:07:12,930 like that to acting directing so uh The direction, 101 00:07:13,030 --> 00:07:15,610 did the director have a good sense of what's it about? 102 00:07:15,930 --> 00:07:18,550 Was the acting well entertained? Is it believable? 103 00:07:19,310 --> 00:07:23,930 Three, visual cinematography. You know, if there's CGI, if it's animated, 104 00:07:24,150 --> 00:07:27,950 transitions, lighting, like all those minutiae things I like to look into. 105 00:07:28,630 --> 00:07:32,790 Four, music. You know, the score, composing, soundtrack. You know, 106 00:07:32,810 --> 00:07:36,650 I think music's very important in films and sometimes in certain scenes. 107 00:07:36,650 --> 00:07:41,910 It really, you know, establishes the, you know, the importance of what the scene 108 00:07:41,910 --> 00:07:46,630 is and it helps the carry the weight of the emotion or the intensity of what 109 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:48,430 havers, you know, happening on film. 110 00:07:49,030 --> 00:07:52,170 And then finally, there's the fifth one, which is like my miscellaneous. 111 00:07:52,310 --> 00:07:54,850 It's kind of like my just about anything. 112 00:07:55,050 --> 00:07:59,630 So, you know, was it was the movie long? Was it short? Was the pacing bad? Was entertaining? 113 00:08:00,110 --> 00:08:03,690 Was it boring? Did it put me to sleep? You know, like you name it. 114 00:08:03,730 --> 00:08:06,470 It's kind of like, you know, free for all. this is where 115 00:08:06,470 --> 00:08:09,410 you can really because i've seen a lot of people say with when they 116 00:08:09,410 --> 00:08:12,510 review something like it just it kind of dragged and 117 00:08:12,510 --> 00:08:15,530 i was just like okay that's valid because you 118 00:08:15,530 --> 00:08:18,230 know that could be pacing could be a lot of different things that go into 119 00:08:18,230 --> 00:08:20,970 that or it's just like it's very entertaining but then 120 00:08:20,970 --> 00:08:23,770 there's like a good 30 minutes of just dialogue but 121 00:08:23,770 --> 00:08:27,330 then all of a sudden here's action or drama 122 00:08:27,330 --> 00:08:30,010 and then it's back to like nothing and you're 123 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:36,570 like so again that's what i'll be using but again hopefully the main goal here 124 00:08:36,570 --> 00:08:40,970 is just so you guys can just kind of hopefully generate curiosity and interest 125 00:08:40,970 --> 00:08:44,910 and you go hey you know what let me check that out because maybe it'd be something 126 00:08:44,910 --> 00:08:48,890 i would never really watch and because of that i'm not going to include spoilers. 127 00:08:49,610 --> 00:08:54,190 In these reviews or at least i'm going to try my very hardest to include very 128 00:08:54,190 --> 00:08:57,790 minimal things because at the end of the day i really just want to explain what 129 00:08:57,790 --> 00:09:03,950 you know what this movie or what what these films made me feel, what I took away from it. 130 00:09:04,030 --> 00:09:07,230 Whether it's relatable for me in my personal life or. 131 00:09:08,556 --> 00:09:13,736 And to convey that, sometimes you do have to get a little more in depth with 132 00:09:13,736 --> 00:09:16,256 the plot of what I just saw. 133 00:09:16,916 --> 00:09:20,016 But again, I ultimately just want you guys to check them out. 134 00:09:20,076 --> 00:09:22,016 So I'm going to try my hardest to not. 135 00:09:23,336 --> 00:09:26,536 So I think that kind of sums up what to expect from my reviews. 136 00:09:26,676 --> 00:09:30,436 And I understand this is the first time I'm doing reviews for Uncle Dad. 137 00:09:30,776 --> 00:09:34,056 So you guys don't necessarily know what I'm into, what I like. 138 00:09:34,136 --> 00:09:38,236 I'll just say, to me, film is like music. 139 00:09:38,556 --> 00:09:42,276 Like I love almost every genre, every type of film. 140 00:09:42,876 --> 00:09:46,356 I mean, I just love film. Like I love movies. 141 00:09:46,436 --> 00:09:49,536 The term is cinephile. And so that's one of the big things I am. 142 00:09:49,596 --> 00:09:51,196 I'll pretty much watch just about anything. 143 00:09:52,276 --> 00:09:55,236 So kind of give you an idea of just my range. It's kind of everywhere. 144 00:09:56,576 --> 00:10:03,076 But yeah. All right. So this first part here, well, I'm going to cover the five shorts. 145 00:10:03,156 --> 00:10:06,356 And again, I'm just going to go over the title of the film and just kind of 146 00:10:06,356 --> 00:10:09,776 briefly what what it was about, what I took away from it, how I felt. 147 00:10:09,956 --> 00:10:14,956 No like super in-depth details as I would love to, but I'm not going to do it this time around. 148 00:10:15,236 --> 00:10:18,936 After that, we'll do a short break. And then when I come back, 149 00:10:18,936 --> 00:10:20,276 we'll cover that feature film. 150 00:10:21,116 --> 00:10:25,196 Yeah. Alrighty guys. So let's get into it. 151 00:10:25,676 --> 00:10:30,916 The first film that I'm going to start off with is None or Never, 152 00:10:31,136 --> 00:10:33,696 which is a short animated film. 153 00:10:33,696 --> 00:10:41,016 Let me see if i can give you guys the synopsis here so a nun digs a man up from 154 00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:49,856 the ground and loses her grip on everyday life can secrets and harmony coexist now for me on this one, 155 00:10:50,656 --> 00:10:57,696 of the five well total six films this one's the one i i had less connection 156 00:10:57,696 --> 00:11:03,676 to because obviously i'm not a nun and i'm not looking to be a nun but not necessarily that that. 157 00:11:04,256 --> 00:11:10,156 It was just very unique. This was definitely a unique short film. 158 00:11:10,396 --> 00:11:13,756 Again, it was fully animated. So as far as the plot and story goes, 159 00:11:14,016 --> 00:11:19,756 from what I took away from it, at least what I was able to translate from what 160 00:11:19,756 --> 00:11:23,916 was visually being shown to me was that when it comes to nuns, 161 00:11:23,916 --> 00:11:27,216 I think it's safe to say that we all assume the same. 162 00:11:27,376 --> 00:11:31,716 So when you see a nun or even like a group of nuns, like they're uniform, 163 00:11:31,856 --> 00:11:37,376 they behave the same, like you expect help, sincerity, all that stuff, right? 164 00:11:38,116 --> 00:11:43,996 But we don't know who they were before because that's not something they wear 165 00:11:43,996 --> 00:11:46,716 on the outside. It's something that they contain on the inside. 166 00:11:48,236 --> 00:11:55,496 And so what I took away from this film is that the character that we follow is, 167 00:11:56,655 --> 00:12:03,455 We got like maybe a hint of their previous life or regular life, I guess, previous life. 168 00:12:03,715 --> 00:12:06,395 I mean, I don't know how, I guess that's the way to say it. 169 00:12:06,835 --> 00:12:09,615 And then they're kind of just going through that. 170 00:12:10,335 --> 00:12:14,175 Again, I don't want to give spoilers. So that was my takeaway from it. 171 00:12:14,255 --> 00:12:19,635 So I'm hoping I took the intent of what it was supposed to be, but it was good. 172 00:12:19,735 --> 00:12:23,775 I mean, I thought it was very unique in terms of acting and direction. 173 00:12:23,895 --> 00:12:27,015 And I mean, there was, there was no dialogue. long they were just like little like like 174 00:12:27,015 --> 00:12:34,915 those type of sounds to emphasize emotion or response or what have you direction 175 00:12:34,915 --> 00:12:39,335 because it was an animated film i mean they they had full control where they 176 00:12:39,335 --> 00:12:45,775 were going with it so i'm assuming what the director intended they got visual. 177 00:12:47,395 --> 00:12:53,435 Merchandise i'm so sorry visuals and cinematography i don't know why i said 178 00:12:53,435 --> 00:13:01,895 that right now It has a very unique and weird art style to, to this little short film. 179 00:13:01,935 --> 00:13:04,195 Like it was cool. Like I, I was digging it. 180 00:13:05,155 --> 00:13:08,195 I feel like I've seen it before, but yeah, it was definitely, 181 00:13:08,275 --> 00:13:09,415 it was definitely unique. 182 00:13:09,535 --> 00:13:12,315 I'll say it that way. Even like, I remember I read something about the director 183 00:13:12,315 --> 00:13:15,215 they were talking about and it said, yeah, it's like, you know, 184 00:13:15,235 --> 00:13:18,815 it's that weird art, which I don't know how to explain it. 185 00:13:18,815 --> 00:13:24,195 It reminded me of like maybe, maybe like a elementary school kids, 186 00:13:24,315 --> 00:13:28,095 like art, like if they were to draw people, what they would assume. 187 00:13:28,115 --> 00:13:31,015 And then it comes to life. That's kind of reminded me again. 188 00:13:31,115 --> 00:13:36,975 I know that probably doesn't help, but for me, that's how it translates music. 189 00:13:37,195 --> 00:13:42,735 There was some good music in it as far as like, you know, composing and how it carried the story. 190 00:13:42,735 --> 00:13:50,535 And as far as miscellaneous like i i for me because it was just so unique and 191 00:13:50,535 --> 00:13:53,935 i don't want to make that i'm not i don't want to say it's like a negative thing or anything it's just. 192 00:13:55,715 --> 00:14:00,295 I was trying really hard just trying to like figure like understand what is 193 00:14:00,295 --> 00:14:05,515 being is being told to me so by the whole time i spent too much time just trying 194 00:14:05,515 --> 00:14:12,015 to translate everything thing all the visuals so it kind of took away a little 195 00:14:12,015 --> 00:14:14,675 bit from the entertainment piece of it, 196 00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:21,935 but it was all right overall for me it just it wasn't my cup of tea although i love the animation, 197 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:26,475 and i'm like i said i'm pretty sure i get what they were good where they were 198 00:14:26,475 --> 00:14:30,575 getting at with the story it just wasn't for me unfortunately so i did give 199 00:14:30,575 --> 00:14:35,855 it a two out of five for none or never a short animated film. 200 00:14:36,895 --> 00:14:43,015 All right, the next one I did was Les Patines, which I believe is French for the skates. 201 00:14:43,515 --> 00:14:45,735 This was a short film, live action. 202 00:14:46,395 --> 00:14:49,935 This one was, I enjoyed this one. This one was interesting. 203 00:14:50,995 --> 00:14:54,975 It's not as relatable to me, but it's interesting because I think it's extremely 204 00:14:54,975 --> 00:15:00,975 relatable to a lot of people in this day and age. 205 00:15:01,855 --> 00:15:06,115 So let me see here. I believe I have the synopsis, a quick little one here. 206 00:15:06,895 --> 00:15:11,015 Let me just locate it for you guys. So Mina loves to skate. 207 00:15:11,455 --> 00:15:16,675 Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her 208 00:15:16,675 --> 00:15:18,495 first figure skating lesson. 209 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:23,695 An ordinary day if something hadn't happened to the skates. 210 00:15:24,355 --> 00:15:28,235 That last line's a little misleading in my personal opinion. 211 00:15:28,235 --> 00:15:32,035 Him so yes it 212 00:15:32,035 --> 00:15:35,235 starts off very beautiful 213 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:38,255 where it's a father-daughter she's going 214 00:15:38,255 --> 00:15:43,715 for first lessons to go figure skating very well done they even had a good little 215 00:15:43,715 --> 00:15:46,835 music and their little soundtrack where she you know a little montage of her 216 00:15:46,835 --> 00:15:50,715 kind of i'm worried like the 80s movies when like you know they're getting all 217 00:15:50,715 --> 00:15:54,055 pumped up like it's like rocky you know like i'm gonna start Start working out 218 00:15:54,055 --> 00:15:56,835 and just start playing it or some type of Van Damme movie. 219 00:15:56,935 --> 00:15:59,795 You know what I mean? And it was nice. It was very beautiful. 220 00:16:00,795 --> 00:16:09,615 I think it started off really well, but then it took a turn where the divorce aspect of the story, 221 00:16:09,715 --> 00:16:16,635 while also including if both parents, if not at least one of them is petty about the divorce, 222 00:16:16,795 --> 00:16:22,055 kind of just that took like a little bit of a dark turn for me. 223 00:16:23,077 --> 00:16:26,957 And i am pretty damn sure that was the intent in 224 00:16:26,957 --> 00:16:29,857 this story so well done i think it was done very 225 00:16:29,857 --> 00:16:33,957 well acting and directing between uh 226 00:16:33,957 --> 00:16:37,037 the the actress that played mina the little girl and 227 00:16:37,037 --> 00:16:40,597 the father because they're like the main two characters um there's 228 00:16:40,597 --> 00:16:43,397 other people but those are the main two for what they were intended 229 00:16:43,397 --> 00:16:46,337 to do or portray and you know 230 00:16:46,337 --> 00:16:49,077 basically what their characters were supposed to be they bring it to life really 231 00:16:49,077 --> 00:16:51,877 well great direction in my 232 00:16:51,877 --> 00:16:56,497 my opinion visuals and cinematography was great like i said they i love the 233 00:16:56,497 --> 00:17:00,157 little montage they did which kind of taken to the fourth point is that music 234 00:17:00,157 --> 00:17:06,357 piece like i really really digged how they did all that and everything was well 235 00:17:06,357 --> 00:17:09,157 transitioned and it really the you got the, 236 00:17:09,737 --> 00:17:13,497 image of where you needed to be whether you were the father whether you were 237 00:17:13,497 --> 00:17:17,917 the daughter or whether you were an item and if that makes sense to you so it's 238 00:17:17,917 --> 00:17:20,797 really well done miscellaneous. 239 00:17:21,517 --> 00:17:24,517 I think it was entertaining it was great i for 240 00:17:24,517 --> 00:17:28,297 me it was just really it kind of it 241 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:31,457 didn't hit home but it can hit home for some people so it 242 00:17:31,457 --> 00:17:34,137 brought the emotion of frustration which i believe was the 243 00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:37,217 intent now i am my parents 244 00:17:37,217 --> 00:17:40,297 did divorce when i was in my teens but you 245 00:17:40,297 --> 00:17:43,777 know we're mexican american family i'm first-gen 246 00:17:43,777 --> 00:17:46,997 mexican-american so it's a little bit different there wasn't 247 00:17:46,997 --> 00:17:51,237 like pettiness in a sense but what they 248 00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:54,397 present to you in this film the if 249 00:17:54,397 --> 00:17:57,277 if a parent or both parents have pettiness and what it does 250 00:17:57,277 --> 00:18:03,617 to the child you know psychologically and emotionally that's really captured 251 00:18:03,617 --> 00:18:11,037 well and you know it was it was it was pretty frustrating pretty sure the intent 252 00:18:11,037 --> 00:18:15,077 was to to show the frustration and at the end of it, 253 00:18:15,077 --> 00:18:17,637 make you feel for the child and how messed up it is. 254 00:18:17,657 --> 00:18:22,237 So hopefully, you know, if you're, if you're a child that's gone through this, 255 00:18:22,937 --> 00:18:25,477 you know, hopefully opens your eyes. Like, Hey, look at. 256 00:18:26,345 --> 00:18:32,785 Your parents can be, they can be jerks. Hopefully you don't get too lost into that. 257 00:18:32,845 --> 00:18:37,685 But again, we look, children look at their parents like they're heroes. They're be everything. 258 00:18:38,805 --> 00:18:44,105 Ultimately, I hope that parents, divorced parents watch this and they set a 259 00:18:44,105 --> 00:18:46,965 better example on how they can be towards their kids. 260 00:18:47,845 --> 00:18:54,705 So 3.5 out of 10 out of five less spittins. Like I said, really good. 261 00:18:54,765 --> 00:18:55,585 I really enjoyed this film. 262 00:18:56,505 --> 00:19:00,865 All right. The third short that I reviewed here was someone's trying to get 263 00:19:00,865 --> 00:19:02,625 in short film live action. 264 00:19:04,845 --> 00:19:09,865 This one is interesting. Not really relatable for me. 265 00:19:10,825 --> 00:19:13,725 And I don't really have a synopsis for you guys or anything because I didn't, 266 00:19:13,725 --> 00:19:15,765 I wasn't provided that one for this one. 267 00:19:16,945 --> 00:19:24,185 So this one's about it's like current events and this can be a touchy subject to some. 268 00:19:25,185 --> 00:19:28,225 The whole premise or the whole thing of this film 269 00:19:28,225 --> 00:19:32,025 it follows family two parents 270 00:19:32,025 --> 00:19:35,905 and two kids i remember correctly an individual they're 271 00:19:35,905 --> 00:19:39,745 immigrants i believe from haiti they're immigrating making 272 00:19:39,745 --> 00:19:43,005 their way to canada crossing the border to canada and then 273 00:19:43,005 --> 00:19:45,885 they get you know they surrender surrender themselves get taken to like a 274 00:19:45,885 --> 00:19:48,585 camp but it's like well like it's a nice camp like 275 00:19:48,585 --> 00:19:54,765 it's very supportive and providing not much security but it was it's nice and 276 00:19:54,765 --> 00:20:01,765 then it focuses on another family to a parent and then a child and with this 277 00:20:01,765 --> 00:20:08,145 one i don't necessarily know what the The intent was, 278 00:20:08,325 --> 00:20:14,725 I get the message, I believe they were trying to share. 279 00:20:14,945 --> 00:20:19,705 But I didn't, I didn't, I feel, I don't know. 280 00:20:19,765 --> 00:20:24,225 Okay. So going back to my points with the plot, starting with the story and 281 00:20:24,225 --> 00:20:28,605 plot, like I just kind of gave you guys the breakdown of far as what it was. 282 00:20:28,605 --> 00:20:31,685 And i'm assuming 283 00:20:31,685 --> 00:20:35,105 the individual the single individual that's like immigrating like 284 00:20:35,105 --> 00:20:38,125 that's the main character that we want to focus on 285 00:20:38,125 --> 00:20:44,565 but when you see the outside the other i guess main character which i guess 286 00:20:44,565 --> 00:20:49,045 is the antagonist like i don't know to me just it really just generated a lot 287 00:20:49,045 --> 00:20:55,205 of hate and i don't know what the intent was as far as was it to bring awareness or was it to. 288 00:20:56,405 --> 00:20:59,885 Exploit or express what hatred looks like in people 289 00:20:59,885 --> 00:21:03,805 because it was dark man without even 290 00:21:03,805 --> 00:21:10,025 having to show you anything to be dark just the what the intentions are the 291 00:21:10,025 --> 00:21:14,985 acting directing direction like acting was for what the characters were supposed 292 00:21:14,985 --> 00:21:20,405 but the actors had to work with i mean they did they did a great job especially the main character. 293 00:21:22,097 --> 00:21:26,477 The cinematography and the visuals is really it's actually really good a lot 294 00:21:26,477 --> 00:21:29,717 of misdirection i mean there was a moment where i was like i thought it was 295 00:21:29,717 --> 00:21:32,037 like gonna it was gonna become a horror film, 296 00:21:32,577 --> 00:21:35,537 because the intensity was really drawn up and 297 00:21:35,537 --> 00:21:38,857 the way the camera and the lighting was like i was like it's a 298 00:21:38,857 --> 00:21:42,177 little scary but it never got to that point i don't 299 00:21:42,177 --> 00:21:44,937 really remember if there's music in this one because it was just kind of 300 00:21:44,937 --> 00:21:48,177 like a straight story my miscellaneous point 301 00:21:48,177 --> 00:21:51,577 it was was short it just ended like it 302 00:21:51,577 --> 00:21:54,977 was like it was building to set 303 00:21:54,977 --> 00:21:58,697 everything up again with the family and then with the 304 00:21:58,697 --> 00:22:01,877 the individual and then you had this other family like 305 00:22:01,877 --> 00:22:04,637 we were building like okay we're getting we're getting and then 306 00:22:04,637 --> 00:22:07,437 right when we were about to like right when things were about 307 00:22:07,437 --> 00:22:10,377 to go down the movie's over like the 308 00:22:10,377 --> 00:22:13,177 short film's over and i think that was the problem problem 309 00:22:13,177 --> 00:22:17,177 i had with it is that we 310 00:22:17,177 --> 00:22:22,997 never really got the intent like the message that the main character from what 311 00:22:22,997 --> 00:22:26,157 i took away from was like no matter where you are whether it's your hometown 312 00:22:26,157 --> 00:22:34,997 or your home village or home country evil is everywhere and it's pretty much the same. 313 00:22:35,677 --> 00:22:38,757 And then as far as like the other character that 314 00:22:38,757 --> 00:22:42,917 it kind of focused on he just has hatred he just hates people like hates immigrants 315 00:22:42,917 --> 00:22:47,877 and took matters into his own hands and he just it just didn't feel good like 316 00:22:47,877 --> 00:22:50,897 it just felt very easy so i don't know like this one was a little tricky for 317 00:22:50,897 --> 00:22:56,457 me because again i am first generation mexican-american so my family was immigrants but, 318 00:22:57,017 --> 00:23:02,577 you know they immigrated to the u.s back when i don't think we had as much hatred 319 00:23:02,577 --> 00:23:07,917 as there is now I don't mean to laugh at that, but I mean, nowadays it's, it's bad. 320 00:23:10,797 --> 00:23:14,377 So because I didn't really know what intent or direction they're going with 321 00:23:14,377 --> 00:23:18,037 on this one. I, I left this, I gave this one a 2.5 out of five. 322 00:23:18,717 --> 00:23:21,557 It just wasn't really for me. Like I wouldn't want to watch it again unless 323 00:23:21,557 --> 00:23:25,617 there's, unless they had like a second part or something like more to it. I don't know. 324 00:23:27,057 --> 00:23:31,697 Okay. We got two more films here. These two are actually my favorites. 325 00:23:31,697 --> 00:23:37,377 Favorites so the first one is taking back the groove it was a short documentary 326 00:23:37,377 --> 00:23:42,457 let me see if i can get you guys here the synopsis this one was really cool 327 00:23:42,457 --> 00:23:43,877 and i think this one was very important, 328 00:23:44,757 --> 00:23:47,557 on a lot of aspects so taking back the 329 00:23:47,557 --> 00:23:50,717 groove tells a story of broxbourne disco 330 00:23:50,717 --> 00:23:53,617 superstar richie weeks whose hit 331 00:23:53,617 --> 00:23:56,597 song rock your world made us the number one hit on the dance charts 332 00:23:56,597 --> 00:24:01,057 in the 80s like surpassed michael jackson prince you name it and i'm sure you 333 00:24:01,057 --> 00:24:07,637 guys are probably thinking who is this person richie weeks and so it focuses 334 00:24:07,637 --> 00:24:11,157 on you know like many black artists throughout the american recording history 335 00:24:11,157 --> 00:24:16,137 you know his talent was strip mine to enrich white owned record labels. 336 00:24:17,704 --> 00:24:21,384 Weeks and his manager jerome jaraji 337 00:24:21,384 --> 00:24:24,564 narrate the story on how they clawed back the rights 338 00:24:24,564 --> 00:24:27,384 of weeks music and the ongoing fight to restore his 339 00:24:27,384 --> 00:24:35,344 legacy and share his music so this one this one to me you know because yes it 340 00:24:35,344 --> 00:24:40,064 does talk about a uh it kind of highlights in that thing you know black artist 341 00:24:40,064 --> 00:24:44,044 and i own record labels i think it was just more on for me it's more of just 342 00:24:44,044 --> 00:24:46,024 record labels in general or anywhere, contracts, 343 00:24:46,384 --> 00:24:50,564 things like that, just how you can create content and then you don't own it. 344 00:24:50,644 --> 00:24:55,524 Back in the day, that's how a lot of people managed to take advantage of people. 345 00:24:55,824 --> 00:25:00,284 I mean, nowadays, like we all want to put it on stable. Like I own this content. This is my content. 346 00:25:00,404 --> 00:25:03,524 You know, like if I'm going to put this out, I'm making sure I do everything 347 00:25:03,524 --> 00:25:07,244 to ensure that people understand this is mine, which is great. 348 00:25:07,984 --> 00:25:11,464 Back then though, a lot of people were We're just looking for a quick paycheck, 349 00:25:11,724 --> 00:25:13,064 you know, like, oh, cool. 350 00:25:13,124 --> 00:25:18,464 I made this like cool song and someone's like, oh yeah, this, 351 00:25:18,564 --> 00:25:21,584 this is going to get airplay, record play, radio play, what have you. 352 00:25:22,084 --> 00:25:24,384 Let's, uh, let's go ahead and do this and then just sign this. 353 00:25:24,524 --> 00:25:26,164 I mean, I think that was just a normal thing. 354 00:25:26,304 --> 00:25:29,644 I mean, if I remember correctly, I mean, Taylor Swift went through all this 355 00:25:29,644 --> 00:25:35,864 stuff with her music, you know, she didn't fully owned her catalog and she's making her own stuff. 356 00:25:35,864 --> 00:25:41,824 I mean, Michael Jackson, the Beatles, like, I mean, I think it was Paul McCartney 357 00:25:41,824 --> 00:25:45,624 for a minute there that literally owned Michael Jackson's records, 358 00:25:45,884 --> 00:25:48,664 if I remember correctly, or Queen or someone, I don't know. 359 00:25:49,004 --> 00:25:54,444 But being able to own your own creative content is very important. 360 00:25:55,104 --> 00:26:00,184 And they didn't have that back then. So this was a really cool documentary that 361 00:26:00,184 --> 00:26:05,044 they did where, one, it brought this superstar to light. Really good music, by the way. 362 00:26:06,505 --> 00:26:10,685 It brought it to light. And I think it's a wonderful story how, 363 00:26:10,845 --> 00:26:16,245 you know, Richie Weeks here, he did his music was like a hit for a minute. 364 00:26:16,305 --> 00:26:21,105 The record label went under just pretty much like overnight went bankrupt. 365 00:26:21,905 --> 00:26:23,365 And then it got purchased. 366 00:26:24,365 --> 00:26:27,905 Some other company ended up purchasing them. 367 00:26:29,205 --> 00:26:32,645 Excuse me. If I remember, it was verse music group, 368 00:26:32,765 --> 00:26:35,585 picked them up and picked up all like their catalog and 369 00:26:35,585 --> 00:26:38,865 everything so now this record company owned it but then 370 00:26:38,865 --> 00:26:41,625 that record company then gets bought out by another record company which 371 00:26:41,625 --> 00:26:44,865 is bmg which is birdelsman music 372 00:26:44,865 --> 00:26:49,525 group which was a big big like music division 373 00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:52,925 german media division company from birdelsman where 374 00:26:52,925 --> 00:26:56,005 they actually like worked with sony corporation of america 375 00:26:56,005 --> 00:26:58,805 and you know they had a lot of rights of a lot of 376 00:26:58,805 --> 00:27:01,525 big name artists now i don't know the 377 00:27:01,525 --> 00:27:04,525 full details of where they're at at now because i'm not covering 378 00:27:04,525 --> 00:27:07,885 that i'm not looking into that but i mean you can 379 00:27:07,885 --> 00:27:11,005 think of a lot of big artists and big names like 380 00:27:11,005 --> 00:27:13,945 they had access like and it's it's it's crazy 381 00:27:13,945 --> 00:27:16,905 to think that or to to just take a 382 00:27:16,905 --> 00:27:19,925 moment to think about that like if you make an album for example 383 00:27:19,925 --> 00:27:22,825 it's like yeah you made the album but you 384 00:27:22,825 --> 00:27:27,885 don't own it like but that's my stuff no i wrote it and i produced it i did 385 00:27:27,885 --> 00:27:31,065 this like okay but we paid the checks we paid the bills we paid the for the 386 00:27:31,065 --> 00:27:34,925 lights and everything like you're it's not yours we own it you know we'll give 387 00:27:34,925 --> 00:27:40,125 you a portion of proceeds but that's about it we get to use it sample it do 388 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:41,665 whatever we want with it we can sell it. 389 00:27:42,765 --> 00:27:47,425 And so with richie you follow the story where he like when that company kind 390 00:27:47,425 --> 00:27:52,965 of just fell out he just disappeared you know went on to become regular regular 391 00:27:52,965 --> 00:27:59,545 joe worked at the post office office for a cool minute and and then here comes this uh this this guy. 392 00:28:02,005 --> 00:28:05,005 Jerome where he was like hey i 393 00:28:05,005 --> 00:28:07,785 think i really like your music i'm big 394 00:28:07,785 --> 00:28:10,605 into this like i feel like you need to get your stuff back and so he 395 00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:14,405 kind of explains his process of what he did to support 396 00:28:14,405 --> 00:28:17,265 richie and get basically ownership to 397 00:28:17,265 --> 00:28:21,725 his to get the rights back and ownership of his music which i 398 00:28:21,725 --> 00:28:25,465 think is awesome i really think is awesome and i think it's very important for 399 00:28:25,465 --> 00:28:31,485 a lot of people to to understand contracts to read them to how they benefit 400 00:28:31,485 --> 00:28:37,205 you what they do for you and to really go on that aspect because again a lot 401 00:28:37,205 --> 00:28:38,865 of times people get blinded by the dollar signs, 402 00:28:39,945 --> 00:28:41,425 and this happens a lot. 403 00:28:43,226 --> 00:28:46,146 Yeah, it was a cool story. I really enjoyed this one. 404 00:28:46,806 --> 00:28:51,166 I didn't really go through my ranks or anything on this one because I pretty 405 00:28:51,166 --> 00:28:52,126 much kind of covered everything. 406 00:28:52,846 --> 00:28:59,686 It was just very well produced. It was like a 35, 40-minute short documentary film. 407 00:29:00,066 --> 00:29:06,766 Really good. I really loved it. I'm going to go ahead and give this one a 4.5 out of 5. 408 00:29:07,786 --> 00:29:13,346 Yeah, I had to go there because, again, And it was cool. 409 00:29:13,426 --> 00:29:16,706 And most importantly, what I love about this, not only did it bring me insight 410 00:29:16,706 --> 00:29:22,166 on things that happened in the past and things that are currently happening 411 00:29:22,166 --> 00:29:24,106 and what people have gone through. 412 00:29:25,246 --> 00:29:30,446 And even me today as a podcaster, I want to be able to own things. 413 00:29:30,726 --> 00:29:34,406 I make some music every now and then. And I'm like, I want to be able to own that. 414 00:29:35,186 --> 00:29:39,126 It just really kind of reopens people's mind. 415 00:29:39,126 --> 00:29:45,966 Like hey protect your stuff man whatever it is that you do protect it own it it's very important, 416 00:29:46,526 --> 00:29:49,966 but what i loved about this is you know at the 417 00:29:49,966 --> 00:29:53,326 end of this when i was done with it you know i went on to spotify apple music 418 00:29:53,326 --> 00:29:59,446 search for richie weeks and sure enough man there's first two volumes are on 419 00:29:59,446 --> 00:30:05,026 there and so i downloaded those suckers and i've been jamming to some disco 420 00:30:05,026 --> 00:30:06,626 man and he's He's got some good stuff. 421 00:30:06,766 --> 00:30:10,406 I mean, a lot of the stuff he was able to, if you watch, I highly recommend 422 00:30:10,406 --> 00:30:13,346 you watch the documentary, but when you watch it, you know, he shares that, 423 00:30:13,346 --> 00:30:17,686 you know, he had tapes, like copies of tapes of all his work and things that 424 00:30:17,686 --> 00:30:19,926 he made that was never released. 425 00:30:19,966 --> 00:30:24,886 And, you know, his manager, his now manager, Jerome, is like helping him master 426 00:30:24,886 --> 00:30:32,986 and pretty much archive and digitize all those tapes so that way they can live on forever. 427 00:30:33,146 --> 00:30:37,646 And man, he's got some dope jams. So taking back the groove, 428 00:30:37,846 --> 00:30:40,246 short documentary, 4.5 out of 5. 429 00:30:41,876 --> 00:30:44,776 All righty so the final film 430 00:30:44,776 --> 00:30:47,796 that i reviewed that was the short films 431 00:30:47,796 --> 00:30:51,396 was a film called savvy the 432 00:30:51,396 --> 00:30:55,636 cat it is a short documentary now i'll 433 00:30:55,636 --> 00:31:00,596 tell you guys right now from the jump i'm gonna be biased definitely biased 434 00:31:00,596 --> 00:31:04,156 on this one i am definitely a cat person and the 435 00:31:04,156 --> 00:31:07,176 story revolving just the cat if 436 00:31:07,176 --> 00:31:10,656 you isolate that is so well done 437 00:31:10,656 --> 00:31:14,336 and relatable that 438 00:31:14,336 --> 00:31:17,996 that that alone was already like great but 439 00:31:17,996 --> 00:31:21,956 what i love about this one is that it follows a 440 00:31:21,956 --> 00:31:25,356 couple ken and kyla nisimba or 441 00:31:25,356 --> 00:31:29,556 nisimbi and it explains how you 442 00:31:29,556 --> 00:31:32,736 know these two people got together fell in love got married 443 00:31:32,736 --> 00:31:37,056 and then how how they brought a cat home or 444 00:31:37,056 --> 00:31:42,476 I should say one of them brought a cat home and it's 445 00:31:42,476 --> 00:31:45,296 really kind of you know 446 00:31:45,296 --> 00:31:51,396 they they didn't really think it through on how cats react so it created a lot 447 00:31:51,396 --> 00:31:55,856 of chaos like it was a very mischievous cat like and I haven't I've had the 448 00:31:55,856 --> 00:32:00,836 privilege I've owned personally and we've owned three cats and I've never really 449 00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:03,276 had the issues of cats, like tearing things up. 450 00:32:03,636 --> 00:32:07,836 So that's been, I've been very blessed with that, but I can only imagine those. 451 00:32:07,896 --> 00:32:13,256 Like if you have a couch and they tore up a couch or by your wires and stuff. 452 00:32:13,736 --> 00:32:17,316 Like it would suck, man. But thankfully, like I said, I haven't had. 453 00:32:18,016 --> 00:32:21,036 And so with this and this story, it tells the Ted, you know, 454 00:32:21,036 --> 00:32:23,716 shares the tell of what this couple went 455 00:32:23,716 --> 00:32:27,156 through and they did experience that to where it created 456 00:32:27,156 --> 00:32:30,756 essentially like marital problems 457 00:32:30,756 --> 00:32:34,136 you know couple problems and so 458 00:32:34,136 --> 00:32:36,856 there's there's action that they take but what 459 00:32:36,856 --> 00:32:42,756 i love is the reflection and the revelation that they have on a big action that 460 00:32:42,756 --> 00:32:47,636 they take and that they discover that no there's more deeper things and it helped 461 00:32:47,636 --> 00:32:52,696 them and allowed them to work things out to figure things out in their relationships 462 00:32:52,696 --> 00:32:54,616 to to keep the love and the strong, 463 00:32:54,816 --> 00:32:58,696 the bond strong and continue pushing forward. 464 00:33:00,249 --> 00:33:05,929 But again, there was a major price, a major cost to come to that revelation, 465 00:33:06,269 --> 00:33:08,129 which is very disheartening. 466 00:33:09,049 --> 00:33:12,949 But as the story progresses, and I really want people to watch this one, 467 00:33:12,969 --> 00:33:14,249 so I don't want to share too much. 468 00:33:14,529 --> 00:33:18,349 Because I absolutely love this one, this short film. 469 00:33:19,529 --> 00:33:23,229 So definitely watch it, check it out, because I'm not going to tell any more. 470 00:33:24,529 --> 00:33:29,969 In terms of the story, because it's documentary and what they're telling, top notch. I loved it. 471 00:33:30,249 --> 00:33:34,089 Very relatable for me. If you're a cat person, you would definitely enjoy this 472 00:33:34,089 --> 00:33:36,269 film and most likely will find this relatable. 473 00:33:36,369 --> 00:33:41,349 Even if you're also kind of not a cat person or not an animal person in general, 474 00:33:41,469 --> 00:33:45,909 I think it's a really good movie or short documentary film to check out. 475 00:33:46,049 --> 00:33:52,369 So you can see perspective of an individual and the impact that they have on someone that maybe is. 476 00:33:52,369 --> 00:33:57,289 So if you are watching, listening to this and you're a couple and one of you 477 00:33:57,289 --> 00:34:00,629 love animals and the other one doesn't, this might give you some insight or 478 00:34:00,629 --> 00:34:04,989 visual representation, you know, perspective on what can, uh, 479 00:34:05,089 --> 00:34:09,469 what that can be and being brave enough to open up and say, Hey, 480 00:34:09,469 --> 00:34:13,809 maybe I'm at fault or you're at fault, or this is how you're affecting me type of thing. 481 00:34:13,809 --> 00:34:16,769 So acting direct i mean it's it's supposed 482 00:34:16,769 --> 00:34:19,969 to be documentary so unless unless 483 00:34:19,969 --> 00:34:22,989 the whole thing was made up then bravo on 484 00:34:22,989 --> 00:34:25,849 the acting but really good the direction i love the 485 00:34:25,849 --> 00:34:28,949 visuals there's illustrations in between because 486 00:34:28,949 --> 00:34:31,749 it goes from like like i said documentary to like 487 00:34:31,749 --> 00:34:34,449 kind of like home video clips to like you know 488 00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:37,969 just your simple little like be real montage but 489 00:34:37,969 --> 00:34:41,589 then there's some animated visual illustrations that 490 00:34:41,589 --> 00:34:47,229 they provide that i so well done so well done music i love the music love the 491 00:34:47,229 --> 00:34:51,589 music very went with everything they use a couple license tracks from some artists 492 00:34:51,589 --> 00:34:54,109 that was really good i actually ended up like googling or not googling but like 493 00:34:54,109 --> 00:34:57,409 shazamming because i was like i like this i was like i gotta i'm gonna have 494 00:34:57,409 --> 00:34:59,809 to add it to my playlist or just add it to my my music list. 495 00:35:01,537 --> 00:35:04,877 My miscellaneous thoughts, just loved it. Like I said, really biased because 496 00:35:04,877 --> 00:35:06,717 it was cats. Had to do with a cat. 497 00:35:07,217 --> 00:35:11,777 And as a cat owner, it was very, I was very understanding to what was being told. 498 00:35:11,877 --> 00:35:16,397 So if you haven't got it by now, I gave this one a five out of five. 499 00:35:16,637 --> 00:35:18,657 I'm sorry. I just did. I love it. 500 00:35:19,417 --> 00:35:23,977 Savvy the cat, five out of five. Absolutely loved it. Highly recommended. 501 00:35:25,057 --> 00:35:28,657 So just a quick little recap before we take this little break here. 502 00:35:28,657 --> 00:35:40,437 None or never animated short film i gave it a two out of five les patines short film 3.5 out of five, 503 00:35:41,197 --> 00:35:47,817 someone's trying to get in short film 2.5 out of five taking back the groove 504 00:35:47,817 --> 00:35:52,537 short documentary film, 4.5 out of five. 505 00:35:53,057 --> 00:35:58,717 And then we had Savi the Cat, short documentary film, five out of five. 506 00:35:59,177 --> 00:36:03,817 There were so many movies at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, so many shorts. 507 00:36:03,997 --> 00:36:09,217 These were the five that I was given and these were all very interesting, well appreciated. 508 00:36:09,637 --> 00:36:14,277 Like I said, my personal favorites, Taking Back the Groove and Savi the Cat. 509 00:36:14,497 --> 00:36:18,557 I recommend all five of these hopefully if 510 00:36:18,557 --> 00:36:21,377 any of my reviews on 511 00:36:21,377 --> 00:36:24,077 any of these kind of sparked an interest please check them out i mean at 512 00:36:24,077 --> 00:36:26,817 the very least just check them all out i'm not 100 513 00:36:26,817 --> 00:36:29,817 sure how these are all going to become available because 514 00:36:29,817 --> 00:36:32,777 these are all screened for the film festival but once 515 00:36:32,777 --> 00:36:36,037 they become available if they're not already just google them 516 00:36:36,037 --> 00:36:38,997 find them check them out really good work from 517 00:36:38,997 --> 00:36:41,657 these creative minds creative individuals all the 518 00:36:41,657 --> 00:36:45,977 people involved in directing writing producing producing acting filming 519 00:36:45,977 --> 00:36:48,917 audio i mean there's so 520 00:36:48,917 --> 00:36:51,657 many people that are involved in making 521 00:36:51,657 --> 00:36:54,517 a movie but to every single person that was 522 00:36:54,517 --> 00:36:58,157 involved in making these five fantastic work great 523 00:36:58,157 --> 00:37:01,337 job absolutely loved all the love 524 00:37:01,337 --> 00:37:04,657 and dedication that gets put into this so all right 525 00:37:04,657 --> 00:37:07,397 without further ado we're going to take a short break that uncle 526 00:37:07,397 --> 00:37:11,477 dad is providing here for you guys and then when I come back I will be reviewing 527 00:37:11,477 --> 00:37:17,957 the feature film it is called the movie man and I love this one guys this one 528 00:37:17,957 --> 00:37:23,097 was good so be sure to come back so that you guys can check out my thoughts 529 00:37:23,097 --> 00:37:25,277 and review of the movie man. 530 00:37:26,491 --> 00:37:29,311 Everybody let's give rick a huge round of applause for his 531 00:37:29,311 --> 00:37:33,771 work so far it's incredible and i hope you guys appreciate it as much as i do 532 00:37:33,771 --> 00:37:39,031 as well without further ado though i want to quickly talk about our sponsor 533 00:37:39,031 --> 00:37:43,871 our sponsor is the one and only clandestine brewing clandestine brewing for 534 00:37:43,871 --> 00:37:49,111 those who have listened to us for a while know that that is one of our longest sponsors and. 535 00:37:49,671 --> 00:37:54,151 Probably one of our favorite sponsors period because they truly offer the most 536 00:37:54,151 --> 00:37:57,491 unique beers around in the South Bay of California. 537 00:37:57,851 --> 00:38:01,211 Now, the best way to go check them out is going straight to their brewery, 538 00:38:01,211 --> 00:38:03,691 and their brewery is located in San Jose. 539 00:38:03,911 --> 00:38:08,991 And if you go to 980 South 1st Street, Suite B in San Jose, California, 540 00:38:09,311 --> 00:38:14,191 you can go down there, tell them Uncle Dad sent you, and grab yourself a very 541 00:38:14,191 --> 00:38:17,151 tasty brew. 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So the feature film that I was given to review, 561 00:39:31,031 --> 00:39:34,851 honestly, it couldn't have been such a better film. 562 00:39:35,471 --> 00:39:43,071 I'm so glad that this is the one that Uncle Dad provided because I am a big, 563 00:39:43,111 --> 00:39:48,431 like I said, I'm a big movie guy, but I'm also a very big theater experience person. 564 00:39:49,011 --> 00:39:55,811 Like i love going to the theater i love the cinema i love just everything about it and, 565 00:39:56,371 --> 00:40:03,111 you know since covid like there's been a big diminish of that and it sucks so 566 00:40:03,111 --> 00:40:07,811 bad like i've seen it and not only just that but it's also the commercialization 567 00:40:07,811 --> 00:40:13,611 of theaters of making them so modern and so like you know. 568 00:40:14,564 --> 00:40:17,724 The same it's like going into a like newly 569 00:40:17,724 --> 00:40:20,384 built suburban neighborhood and you're looking at the 570 00:40:20,384 --> 00:40:23,744 houses and they're all exactly the same you know it's 571 00:40:23,744 --> 00:40:27,084 like edward scissorhands are driving down the the the 572 00:40:27,084 --> 00:40:30,084 street and every house is the same design 573 00:40:30,084 --> 00:40:32,764 colors maybe actually no i think the colors were 574 00:40:32,764 --> 00:40:35,624 the same in the beginning and then you know there's routine everyone left 575 00:40:35,624 --> 00:40:38,384 and it was just so uniformed so in that 576 00:40:38,384 --> 00:40:42,124 aspect like that's kind of how movie theaters have become where 577 00:40:42,124 --> 00:40:46,264 at once upon upon a time you know back in the 70s 578 00:40:46,264 --> 00:40:49,524 even before that but like 80s 90s and 579 00:40:49,524 --> 00:40:53,264 very early 2000s for what i can remember you 580 00:40:53,264 --> 00:40:57,024 know there were some unique theaters out there and nowadays 581 00:40:57,024 --> 00:41:01,124 like i would love to go and find a unique theater and just experience it it's 582 00:41:01,124 --> 00:41:05,364 not even even if there's a movie that i don't want to watch or i already saw 583 00:41:05,364 --> 00:41:08,124 or whatever the case may be like just to be able to go into the theater and 584 00:41:08,124 --> 00:41:09,184 experience it that's what i would love 585 00:41:09,184 --> 00:41:16,024 to do and so again with with the modernization of cinemas and you know, 586 00:41:16,024 --> 00:41:21,604 since COVID how like a lot of people do that and not even just COVID just digital streaming, 587 00:41:21,784 --> 00:41:25,564 you know, digital movies, like back in the day, you would go to the movies. 588 00:41:26,204 --> 00:41:31,344 Watch a movie and you'd have to wait like nine months for it to release on VHS 589 00:41:31,344 --> 00:41:33,084 or DVD or Blu-ray or what have you, 590 00:41:33,124 --> 00:41:35,944 where today it's either, 591 00:41:35,984 --> 00:41:38,704 it's available to stream the same day as it comes 592 00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:41,704 out in theaters or 30 days from now you can stream it 593 00:41:41,704 --> 00:41:45,204 or you can purchase it in a month or or two 594 00:41:45,204 --> 00:41:50,004 months digitally or you can purchase it physically in like three months so you 595 00:41:50,004 --> 00:41:55,124 know the dvd business is that's a whole nother topic to discuss i mean best 596 00:41:55,124 --> 00:42:00,144 buy recently pulled all physical media of blu-rays and film and stuff like that 597 00:42:00,144 --> 00:42:03,684 from their stores which is bananas but that's a whole different thing, 598 00:42:04,504 --> 00:42:08,704 so the feature film is the movie man and i'm just going to tell you guys from the jump, 599 00:42:09,304 --> 00:42:15,564 it's a 5 out of 5 for me personally like spoiler whatever 5 out of 5 but the 600 00:42:15,564 --> 00:42:19,944 movie man is really cool it follows a gentleman named Keith Stata who. 601 00:42:21,577 --> 00:42:25,377 Loved movies so much that he couldn't like pursue 602 00:42:25,377 --> 00:42:28,097 his dream of becoming a working like in 603 00:42:28,097 --> 00:42:30,877 Hollywood or producing films because he lives in in a small 604 00:42:30,877 --> 00:42:34,817 village of Kinmount outside of Ontario Canada and 605 00:42:34,817 --> 00:42:37,837 so he couldn't necessarily live that 606 00:42:37,837 --> 00:42:40,877 dream so he did what's the next best thing well he 607 00:42:40,877 --> 00:42:44,397 can bring movies to people and so he built his 608 00:42:44,397 --> 00:42:47,977 own cinema it's called Highlands Cinema and 609 00:42:47,977 --> 00:42:50,757 I'll tell you right now folks if i ever have 610 00:42:50,757 --> 00:42:53,457 the chance excuse me if i ever have the chance to go to 611 00:42:53,457 --> 00:42:56,877 kin mount in ontario canada like that 612 00:42:56,877 --> 00:42:59,597 is definitely going to be a spot for me hopefully they're still open that will be 613 00:42:59,597 --> 00:43:03,157 a spot i'd have to go just to experience it so what 614 00:43:03,157 --> 00:43:06,697 this movie follows is this gentleman keith where it 615 00:43:06,697 --> 00:43:09,877 shows how you know wilderness or 616 00:43:09,877 --> 00:43:12,777 whatever kind of like in small village 300 people living or 617 00:43:12,777 --> 00:43:15,817 what have you he has a home and he decides to build 618 00:43:15,817 --> 00:43:18,577 a cinema in 1979 79 he just built like his own 619 00:43:18,577 --> 00:43:21,517 theater you know and it's a small you know little theater 620 00:43:21,517 --> 00:43:24,777 and from there he started 621 00:43:24,777 --> 00:43:28,197 off and like in 1986 opened a 622 00:43:28,197 --> 00:43:34,297 second cinema screen in his property and then in 88 another one 95 another one 623 00:43:34,297 --> 00:43:41,217 96 another one so he has five screens but the thing about it is is as you watch 624 00:43:41,217 --> 00:43:45,577 this documentary film and it follows for the most part, 625 00:43:45,617 --> 00:43:49,937 the story and the journey of Keith and what he's done and what he did. 626 00:43:50,077 --> 00:43:56,217 What he's gone through, but you start to discover the passion that he has for 627 00:43:56,217 --> 00:43:57,217 it and what he puts into it. 628 00:43:57,297 --> 00:44:02,137 Because it's the novelty of going there is not even really even to watch a movie. 629 00:44:02,957 --> 00:44:08,617 It's to experience it. He has hallways because because he got very creative 630 00:44:08,617 --> 00:44:10,817 with the floor plan, because he just kept adding on. 631 00:44:11,057 --> 00:44:15,837 So there's long hallways in some aspects, but in these long hallways, it's like a museum. 632 00:44:16,057 --> 00:44:19,837 For the most part, one attraction part of it is... 633 00:44:20,893 --> 00:44:25,813 There's a museum aspect when you go down these halls like he provides cabinets 634 00:44:25,813 --> 00:44:29,353 where it's like through the decades and 635 00:44:29,353 --> 00:44:32,573 he would rotate him throughout the like throughout the year but he 636 00:44:32,573 --> 00:44:36,733 would have like a 1980s decade cabinet and in within that you know topped up 637 00:44:36,733 --> 00:44:41,053 and i'm talking like it looked like three feet by like maybe 10 feet or something 638 00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:44,753 but within there it just really broke down like things you would find then it 639 00:44:44,753 --> 00:44:49,373 would have like magazines it would have not not memorabilia, just things that are, 640 00:44:49,533 --> 00:44:53,213 were made or released or existed in that timeframe. 641 00:44:53,753 --> 00:44:57,133 And so he would provide those cabinets as an experience. 642 00:44:57,493 --> 00:45:02,553 Uh, he was big into film and there's a part you'll notice that he has like so 643 00:45:02,553 --> 00:45:08,553 many like old school projectors and we're talking like the real that's R E E 644 00:45:08,553 --> 00:45:12,333 L, uh, projectors where it actually has like film strips, 645 00:45:12,493 --> 00:45:16,953 like the true authentic millimeter films you know the original prints original 646 00:45:16,953 --> 00:45:20,773 press like it's amazing but he has a lot of these and you actually learn that 647 00:45:20,773 --> 00:45:26,193 he actually would go around and like go to old abandoned theaters that are shut 648 00:45:26,193 --> 00:45:29,833 down and he would like ask because he has like access to, 649 00:45:30,333 --> 00:45:34,053 seeing which ones were around and he would ask like hey is it cool like if we 650 00:45:34,053 --> 00:45:38,493 can purchase items from it and so or if the theater is about to close they're 651 00:45:38,493 --> 00:45:41,113 like yeah we're getting rid of stuff because there's theaters now that are still 652 00:45:41,113 --> 00:45:45,433 standing that are you know deserted but they're still old. 653 00:45:46,093 --> 00:45:48,673 Remnants and i mean i'm sure if you guys go on youtube you guys can find like, 654 00:45:49,173 --> 00:45:53,953 youtube videos are like oh we like infiltrated a abandoned theater and you know 655 00:45:53,953 --> 00:45:59,113 watch us go through it and possibly run into a ghost or some nonsense i don't know. 656 00:46:01,153 --> 00:46:05,173 But you're discovering those stairs there's like a lot of stuff left back and 657 00:46:05,173 --> 00:46:08,333 so that's how he was He was able to acquire a lot of these old projectors and 658 00:46:08,333 --> 00:46:10,473 he would refurbish them and have them displayed. 659 00:46:10,633 --> 00:46:15,353 So it was like, you know, like one hallway was just a museum of of projectors 660 00:46:15,353 --> 00:46:17,753 from big ones to personal ones. Yeah. 661 00:46:19,057 --> 00:46:22,297 And there's a lot of things like when you watch this film, which I highly recommend, 662 00:46:22,457 --> 00:46:25,817 especially if you're a movie theater guy, again, hence the title, 663 00:46:25,837 --> 00:46:32,237 if you're a movie man or woman, it really, it really shows the passion through 664 00:46:32,237 --> 00:46:36,157 the years and, and what you see in terms of film. 665 00:46:36,457 --> 00:46:43,817 And I don't know, it's, it's, I mean, one of his like corridors or hallways is called memory lane. 666 00:46:43,997 --> 00:46:46,717 And I mean, that's literally it. Like, that's all I kept thinking about. 667 00:46:46,717 --> 00:46:49,617 It's like, this is memory lane. like it's like i've been to there's been 668 00:46:49,617 --> 00:46:52,497 moments where i've been to like these old thrift shops like in monterey or 669 00:46:52,497 --> 00:46:55,197 even like sacramento downtown you know and you see 670 00:46:55,197 --> 00:46:57,997 these old school things and you're like whoa look at that 671 00:46:57,997 --> 00:47:00,757 like that's really what it is what it looked 672 00:47:00,757 --> 00:47:04,237 like to me but film heavily but then 673 00:47:04,237 --> 00:47:07,937 you go into the auditoriums that he has you know they're small but they're 674 00:47:07,937 --> 00:47:11,077 all unique and for the most part most of them are like crafted 675 00:47:11,077 --> 00:47:14,517 by himself and obviously help with others because he was a craftsman and 676 00:47:14,517 --> 00:47:17,237 like they're just very unique and you're like 677 00:47:17,237 --> 00:47:20,417 man like what like how like i mean 678 00:47:20,417 --> 00:47:23,017 i would love to just go and experience it just to see it i have 679 00:47:23,017 --> 00:47:26,077 no idea how it the sound or picture looks 680 00:47:26,077 --> 00:47:29,197 you do see that he upgrades his stuff 681 00:47:29,197 --> 00:47:32,017 like he went to digital projectors which is kind of funny 682 00:47:32,017 --> 00:47:34,937 because there's a there's a part where he's in the 683 00:47:34,937 --> 00:47:39,017 film where he's trying to like navigate it because it's so expensive these projectors 684 00:47:39,017 --> 00:47:43,257 and all these things all these digital things and they're just so like technology 685 00:47:43,257 --> 00:47:47,817 is just so irritating because it wants to be so advanced but at the same time 686 00:47:47,817 --> 00:47:52,297 it's so fragile and uh drives you crazy but. 687 00:47:53,166 --> 00:47:56,346 Anyways so he does upgrade his tech and stuff but it's 688 00:47:56,346 --> 00:48:00,026 just really cool it's just really interesting to see and again 689 00:48:00,026 --> 00:48:02,866 for me it was definitely hitting it was definitely hitting a special place 690 00:48:02,866 --> 00:48:05,946 in my in in my heart because again i love cinemas 691 00:48:05,946 --> 00:48:08,826 i mean not too long ago i went to pomona right 692 00:48:08,826 --> 00:48:11,586 there outside of los angeles and we me and my wife we went to go get 693 00:48:11,586 --> 00:48:14,966 some food at a restaurant and there happened 694 00:48:14,966 --> 00:48:19,666 to be a movie theater in the shopping center of of the restaurant and as were 695 00:48:19,666 --> 00:48:22,366 pulling up because we had to like approach the front of the theater and then 696 00:48:22,366 --> 00:48:26,306 turn or whatever they had like these big glass windows and we looked through 697 00:48:26,306 --> 00:48:30,606 and it was just so old school like it was two stories like they actually had 698 00:48:30,606 --> 00:48:33,926 stairs on both sides so you can get up there. 699 00:48:34,386 --> 00:48:38,306 Remind me of like just those old school i 700 00:48:38,306 --> 00:48:41,206 don't know if you guys ever seen in glory if you've seen inglorious bastards you 701 00:48:41,206 --> 00:48:44,626 know towards the end when they're trying to do that that whole 702 00:48:44,626 --> 00:48:47,506 thing where they're trying to attack i believe it's hitler and you 703 00:48:47,506 --> 00:48:50,326 have like the main lobby and then into the side you have the stairs where they go up 704 00:48:50,326 --> 00:48:52,946 so they can sit access the chairs that are up 705 00:48:52,946 --> 00:48:55,626 there for like the balconies or whatever like that's kind of 706 00:48:55,626 --> 00:48:58,426 what it looked like in the front of the theater like it was like very old school he 707 00:48:58,426 --> 00:49:02,166 had like the concessions yeah like the ticket booth kind of in the center almost 708 00:49:02,166 --> 00:49:06,926 like a ticket booth and you know new york's what's the the famous new york train 709 00:49:06,926 --> 00:49:10,866 station or what's called unfortunately top my head right now but it just looks 710 00:49:10,866 --> 00:49:13,906 so nice and then you have these big old like curved stairs on the sides that 711 00:49:13,906 --> 00:49:16,026 take you up and And I literally was like, man, 712 00:49:16,066 --> 00:49:19,566 I got to like come back at some point just to watch any movie that's here because 713 00:49:19,566 --> 00:49:20,906 I just want to experience this theater. 714 00:49:21,006 --> 00:49:26,586 I want to see how it is because it just very aesthetically looks old school, which I love. 715 00:49:26,786 --> 00:49:29,726 I mean, a lot of people nowadays don't realize that theaters, 716 00:49:29,826 --> 00:49:35,566 they used to bury them underground partially to create that stadium seating. 717 00:49:36,006 --> 00:49:41,106 You would go into, you'd see a building, you know, and it'd be like not too big. 718 00:49:41,106 --> 00:49:44,246 Big but then you go inside because there was one where i used to live i used 719 00:49:44,246 --> 00:49:47,746 to live in los banos and then gilroy and i remember going to the theater when 720 00:49:47,746 --> 00:49:48,906 i was a kid and they would be. 721 00:49:49,406 --> 00:49:52,066 You go in it's like okay out from the outside it's like 722 00:49:52,066 --> 00:49:54,846 it looks like a little building but then it'd be two screens because that's 723 00:49:54,846 --> 00:49:57,646 all they had and you go either the left one or the right one 724 00:49:57,646 --> 00:50:00,826 screen one screen two you go in and then 725 00:50:00,826 --> 00:50:03,666 all of a sudden you know you're going down like there's an arch 726 00:50:03,666 --> 00:50:06,666 down and you're like wait a minute why does 727 00:50:06,666 --> 00:50:10,186 it look so big they didn't look this big because it was kind of buried 728 00:50:10,186 --> 00:50:13,566 into the ground almost like a bunker in a sense and it 729 00:50:13,566 --> 00:50:16,486 was angled so that way it created this 730 00:50:16,486 --> 00:50:19,926 like slope of stadium seating before nowadays 731 00:50:19,926 --> 00:50:23,186 where it's like literally stadium seating where we have stairs and all that 732 00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:26,846 back then it was just a slope and sometimes it wasn't even enough so you'd have 733 00:50:26,846 --> 00:50:30,826 someone sitting in front of you and you're like bro be shorter cut your hair 734 00:50:30,826 --> 00:50:36,086 or do something like you're blocking my view it sucked back in the day but you 735 00:50:36,086 --> 00:50:39,826 know that's old school like those are those were theaters coming up. 736 00:50:41,022 --> 00:50:45,002 Now, I mean, shoot, the theater I go to, you get like reclining chairs. 737 00:50:45,142 --> 00:50:49,602 It's like your own personal living space and you're extremely comfortable in 738 00:50:49,602 --> 00:50:53,222 all kinds of crazy stuff, which don't get me wrong. I don't argue that. I love it. 739 00:50:53,502 --> 00:50:58,402 But I'm an IMAX guy. So a lot of the IMAXs don't have these recline reclinable 740 00:50:58,402 --> 00:51:01,942 chairs with the feet up and everything. I'm all about the big screen. 741 00:51:02,722 --> 00:51:07,782 But it's just it's interesting because the film follows Keith going through 742 00:51:07,782 --> 00:51:10,262 that, building it, creating it. 743 00:51:10,262 --> 00:51:15,342 But then it shows the impact that COVID had on him where he had to shut it down 744 00:51:15,342 --> 00:51:17,882 for a couple of years because of it. 745 00:51:18,262 --> 00:51:23,662 And that was very interesting because if those that, you know, 746 00:51:23,662 --> 00:51:28,082 remember COVID shut down a lot of stuff, like a lot of businesses went out. 747 00:51:28,162 --> 00:51:31,942 They closed a lot of what would be public attractions. 748 00:51:32,642 --> 00:51:35,602 Theaters were shut down. And I'm not talking about shut down like they were 749 00:51:35,602 --> 00:51:36,342 closed for like the year. 750 00:51:36,382 --> 00:51:39,422 I'm talking about they were like the buildings gone. on like the business just 751 00:51:39,422 --> 00:51:43,022 they went out of business and so it's interesting to 752 00:51:43,022 --> 00:51:48,902 see the hardship that keith goes through because his theory isn't like all year 753 00:51:48,902 --> 00:51:55,342 round it's generally during the summer and slightly beginning of a fall well 754 00:51:55,342 --> 00:51:59,922 when summer fall spring summer fall and then a little bit winter because you'll 755 00:51:59,922 --> 00:52:02,522 learn in the film when if when i hope you watch it. 756 00:52:03,642 --> 00:52:06,782 Because it's Canada and based where they're at, it snows. 757 00:52:06,782 --> 00:52:11,182 And when it snows, it snows bad. And I mean, this guy's running it himself. 758 00:52:11,402 --> 00:52:16,762 I mean, he has like maybe another person that's like maybe all the time employed 759 00:52:16,762 --> 00:52:21,802 in a sense, but for the most part, most of his employees are just kids in school. 760 00:52:21,962 --> 00:52:23,182 Like it's like a summer job. 761 00:52:23,622 --> 00:52:27,242 And so those are the ones that, and there was actually some pretty good banter 762 00:52:27,242 --> 00:52:34,402 as far as him showing the youngins how to work hard and do do stuff because he's very old school. 763 00:52:34,462 --> 00:52:38,962 I mean, this gentleman, I think he's like in his seventies or eighties at the 764 00:52:38,962 --> 00:52:39,882 time of making of this film. 765 00:52:41,365 --> 00:52:44,765 Excuse me and so yeah i 766 00:52:44,765 --> 00:52:47,405 know you see you see all that the dynamic that he has and 767 00:52:47,405 --> 00:52:50,265 it's just really really funny but so 768 00:52:50,265 --> 00:52:52,945 it snows during the the winter time and yeah there's no 769 00:52:52,945 --> 00:52:55,785 way there's no way because again he's out in the woods like he literally 770 00:52:55,785 --> 00:52:58,605 has like chipmunks raccoons there's a 771 00:52:58,605 --> 00:53:01,925 bear there's like deer like and it actually 772 00:53:01,925 --> 00:53:04,765 shows how he is able to not 773 00:53:04,765 --> 00:53:08,205 only support them these like wild animals but 774 00:53:08,205 --> 00:53:10,965 even keep them at bay in a sense um so that 775 00:53:10,965 --> 00:53:13,525 was pretty cool to see like what he does and you know how he 776 00:53:13,525 --> 00:53:16,285 feeds and takes care of them the other big 777 00:53:16,285 --> 00:53:19,685 attraction that his highlands cinema 778 00:53:19,685 --> 00:53:22,485 has not only is it obviously films because 779 00:53:22,485 --> 00:53:25,645 again this is like a little village 300 people so i 780 00:53:25,645 --> 00:53:28,445 mean i would assume they have internet and 781 00:53:28,445 --> 00:53:31,565 everything there of course but like if they want to go 782 00:53:31,565 --> 00:53:34,305 to the theater like he's the only one i don't 783 00:53:34,305 --> 00:53:36,925 know where the nearest city is i don't really remember if they highlight that 784 00:53:36,925 --> 00:53:41,965 so but not only being the theater and showing movies not only the museum aspect 785 00:53:41,965 --> 00:53:48,445 of his cinema and the history and everything but he also has like a cat it's 786 00:53:48,445 --> 00:53:53,365 like i guess you can call it a cat farm or something because this dude has like. 787 00:53:53,965 --> 00:53:57,825 I don't know over 40 cats and it's 788 00:53:57,825 --> 00:54:00,985 pretty creative like he created like these walking walking 789 00:54:00,985 --> 00:54:04,405 trench paths like on on like or 790 00:54:04,405 --> 00:54:07,125 it's like fenced off but they're able 791 00:54:07,125 --> 00:54:09,985 to walk and get some air there's like certain cats where 792 00:54:09,985 --> 00:54:13,665 they they have where people can go and see i don't know if it's like a full-fledged 793 00:54:13,665 --> 00:54:16,365 like petting zoo i didn't really see it being like that it was just more of 794 00:54:16,365 --> 00:54:20,025 a novelty of seeing the cats like they know the cats he's met he mentions in 795 00:54:20,025 --> 00:54:25,185 the film that like there are regular guests that go and they know the cat's 796 00:54:25,185 --> 00:54:28,465 names and stuff but he takes care of it and it's crazy because like during the 797 00:54:28,465 --> 00:54:29,405 pandemic when he was shut down. 798 00:54:30,652 --> 00:54:32,932 Because again, it's just seasonal. And then on top of that, he had to shut down, 799 00:54:33,012 --> 00:54:34,532 I believe, two or three years. 800 00:54:35,292 --> 00:54:39,032 He takes donations for the cats and does this and does that. 801 00:54:39,592 --> 00:54:41,312 And then he has a couple of dogs with him himself. 802 00:54:42,352 --> 00:54:46,472 But that was the other big attraction. It's just the cats, the museum aspect, 803 00:54:46,652 --> 00:54:49,612 the novelty of all the old school stuff through the decades. 804 00:54:49,912 --> 00:54:53,832 And then you have the actual experience of going into auditorium and being very unique. 805 00:54:54,072 --> 00:54:58,612 And then, of course, you have the film aspect. aspect but i 806 00:54:58,612 --> 00:55:01,392 gotta tell you man like again being one 807 00:55:01,392 --> 00:55:04,492 passionate about theaters like this one really this one 808 00:55:04,492 --> 00:55:09,372 really hit home for me on that aspect because like 809 00:55:09,372 --> 00:55:12,132 i've already said you just you just don't see it anymore and it's 810 00:55:12,132 --> 00:55:15,012 very it's very bummerish but this one's 811 00:55:15,012 --> 00:55:18,552 very unique it's really cool i highly recommend checking 812 00:55:18,552 --> 00:55:21,592 this movie out it's about an hour and a half it's not not bad it's entertaining 813 00:55:21,592 --> 00:55:24,432 if anything again if you're into 814 00:55:24,432 --> 00:55:27,792 cinemas and passionate about 815 00:55:27,792 --> 00:55:33,492 it like it's really cool just to see someone take action and bring that passion 816 00:55:33,492 --> 00:55:39,172 to life and share it with everyone and then just seeing the hardships like you 817 00:55:39,172 --> 00:55:43,092 kind of get a glimpse of not too much but a little bit of behind the scenes 818 00:55:43,092 --> 00:55:44,572 of what it's like to own your own theater, 819 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:52,260 But the uniqueness of it is just by far. And even Keith's personality is just 820 00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:53,260 fantastic. He's hilarious. 821 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,860 He just had me cracking up just the way he interacts with certain people. 822 00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:05,300 He's just very blunt in some aspects. And it's just very eye-opening, 823 00:56:05,380 --> 00:56:09,520 the dedication and what people had to go through when COVID hit. 824 00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:15,900 Because it seemed for a minute there like it was done. He was about to call it quits. 825 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:20,380 But we'll see if it's still ongoing because again when this made when this when 826 00:56:20,380 --> 00:56:26,300 this documentary was made it was by the end of it i think they were already like in 2022 2023, 827 00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:35,100 so more 2022 possibly so obviously now we're in 2024 so he's been going on for 43 years, 828 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:43,020 and hopefully he just keeps going because one of the big themes that you'll find in this film was. 829 00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,780 What because keith is it didn't seem like he has any 830 00:56:46,780 --> 00:56:50,100 next of kin so the question becomes 831 00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:53,320 what would happen to the future of this 832 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,760 you know for for king 833 00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,780 for kin mount this iconic cinema one of 834 00:56:59,780 --> 00:57:03,360 the big things that they talked about it's like he wanted to pass it to one of 835 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,180 his friends that helped them and did 836 00:57:06,180 --> 00:57:09,440 a lot of stuff but they're like almost the same age and so 837 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,900 it's like we want to give it someone young and it's like well we don't want to you know 838 00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:16,700 give it to someone and they just bulldoze it or commercialize it 839 00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:20,780 because it definitely has its problems we'll 840 00:57:20,780 --> 00:57:23,900 say i think covid and stand still 841 00:57:23,900 --> 00:57:27,040 as you watch the film really highlights that and 842 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:30,280 i can definitely see people someone who 843 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,140 inherits that or takes over it would be like this is not worth my time 844 00:57:33,140 --> 00:57:36,800 or money and they would just be like get rid of it but 845 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,680 above everything else on top of 846 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,820 like the cinema and the memorabilia and everything above everything 847 00:57:42,820 --> 00:57:45,500 else what's most important to keith is who's gonna take care 848 00:57:45,500 --> 00:57:49,640 of the cats and so as 849 00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,920 you guys already heard from the previous segment you know savvy the. 850 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,520 Cat was my favorite short film there and a 851 00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,240 little bias to it like yeah there's a little bias in 852 00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:01,940 this one too because it's just it's just so amazing but yeah i 853 00:58:01,940 --> 00:58:04,840 think that would be a big concern so who knows 854 00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,820 i mean i don't know what the future holds for keith and and for 855 00:58:07,820 --> 00:58:11,520 highland cinemas but i believe that 856 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:15,360 this was a really cool film to be made 857 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:21,200 and share with the public and for everyone to see like i said if for whatever 858 00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,540 reason if i'm ever in that area or remotely close to it just even if it's like 859 00:58:25,540 --> 00:58:31,640 an hour or so drive away or what have you i would I would definitely make sure 860 00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,420 it's on my go-to if it's still around. 861 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:40,420 But I think bringing this film to light to a lot of people and letting it spread, 862 00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:42,060 I think hopefully can help people, 863 00:58:43,049 --> 00:58:47,029 bring the awareness and hopefully attract more people. Cause I think it's again, 864 00:58:47,169 --> 00:58:48,329 I've said it before already. 865 00:58:48,469 --> 00:58:52,129 It's very interesting. It's very unique and definitely needs some more spotlight. 866 00:58:53,349 --> 00:58:58,189 So the movie, man, again, I don't know where, how this will be available, 867 00:58:58,249 --> 00:59:01,449 but if you guys ever have a chance to check it out, obviously keep checking 868 00:59:01,449 --> 00:59:07,189 out, you know, wherever you buy digital movies, chances are there won't be any physical. 869 00:59:07,289 --> 00:59:11,009 Cause again, the whole separate topic, man, physical media is going away, 870 00:59:11,009 --> 00:59:15,149 way but be sure to check out this movie if you ever have a chance to it's a 871 00:59:15,149 --> 00:59:15,989 really good documentary, 872 00:59:16,569 --> 00:59:19,509 hopefully it pops up in a streaming site so that way it's 873 00:59:19,509 --> 00:59:22,589 more accessible like someone like netflix or something because i 874 00:59:22,589 --> 00:59:25,749 mean almost everybody has that but i highly recommend it 875 00:59:25,749 --> 00:59:32,729 five out of five from me very passionate about cinemas yeah well those are the 876 00:59:32,729 --> 00:59:38,009 films short films and feature film that i was able to review for the santa barbara 877 00:59:38,009 --> 00:59:40,989 international film festival on behalf of uncle Uncle Dad Talks. 878 00:59:41,089 --> 00:59:42,709 I hope you guys enjoyed it. 879 00:59:42,849 --> 00:59:45,609 I hope I made this as entertaining as I can. 880 00:59:46,849 --> 00:59:50,289 As always, I'm Rick. You guys can find me at Sigma Duocast. 881 00:59:50,709 --> 00:59:53,809 I'll be working with Uncle Dad. Hopefully I'll get some more projects, 882 00:59:53,929 --> 00:59:58,349 bring you guys some more film reviews and really share some of my personal favorite 883 00:59:58,349 --> 01:00:01,089 films, you know, growing up. 884 01:00:01,109 --> 01:00:06,949 Cause like I said, the genre it's fully open for me i love all of it not really 885 01:00:06,949 --> 01:00:13,389 biased to anything and i don't know it's always good to try and live out a fantasy 886 01:00:13,389 --> 01:00:17,829 or view a fantasy that you might have and film definitely brings that so, 887 01:00:18,489 --> 01:00:23,409 we'll see until next guy next time guys i do appreciate you catch you guys later.