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The Wild Robot: A Robot’s Search for Meaning

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Hugo Pagan Soto

The Wild Robot (2024) is a film that can be perceived as simple. Being an animated film aimed at children, it is normal that we have that feeling of lightness in its narrative. But what lies beneath the surface is much more complex and emotionally challenging. This is how the director and screenwriter Chris Sanders understood it when he learned about Peter Brown’s book of the same name. Since its publication in 2016, the book has not stopped receiving awards and two sequels have followed.

Pepe: Studies of the imagination Part 1

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Like Joe Gillis floating inertly in that pool of a luxurious mansion on Sunset Boulevard, Pepe’s voice tells us about his disastrous destiny from the beyond. The new proposal by Dominican director Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias won the Silver Bear awarded to Best Director at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival. If the award at the Berlinale is a milestone, the film conceived by Nelson Carlo is even more surprising. We are facing a work that surprises us. Its narrative invites us to think from the auditory point of view, it is a constant challenge. The meditations of that hippopotamus are the common thread of a journey that explores themes that cross the anthropological and take us to existentialism. The origin of life, migration, and colonization, are just some of the theses that emerge from Pepe.

LONGLEGS: The Soul Collector

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Hugo Pagan Soto

A curious girl and a macabre character are the elements with which Longlegs (2024) hooks the audience. After that opening sequence, director Oz Perkins takes us on a 1 hour and 40-minute journey of pure tension and psychological terror. This is Perkins’ fifth film as a director who has followed the horror line in all his works. On this occasion, the filmmaker delves into the genre of police investigation and serial killers to explore terror from the perspective of thriller and appeal more to the effect of suspense.

In a Violent Nature: A Different Kind of Horror

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Hugo Pagan Soto

At the end of the 70s and much of the 80s, the slasher subgenre had its greatest splendor. In a Violent Nature (2024) looks with a certain air of nostalgia at those horror films that became pillars of the genre, that inspired franchises, and that have even become cult objects. Specifically, I am referring to films of the subgenre that usually have a murderer attacking a group of young people and eliminating them one by one using some sharp object. Hence the use of the word slash to refer to this type of film.

Blood on the Moon (1948): A Film Noir Western

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Before making Blood on the Moon (1948), Robert Wise had already established himself as a prestigious director in the Hollywood industry. What few know is that it was Orson Welles who gave him the opportunity that would change his life. Wise began working in RKO’s accounting department but soon ended up working as an assistant director. When Welles embarked on producing his legendary Citizen Kane (1941), he sought Wise to edit the film. After the impressive work editing Welles’ masterful work, Wise’s career took off.