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Un transport un commun, a review by Danae Cassandra

ANOTHER BONUS SHORT FILM!

Where We Are: Senegal
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What We Watched:


Un transport un commun (Saint Louis Blues)Overview:
Focus' Africa First program is an initiative designed exclusively for filmmakers of African nationality and residence, and presents annual awards to the best and brightest from around the continent. After touring film festivals around the world, these Africa First short films are now available for audiences everywhere:

Dyana Gaye's ST. LOUIS BLUES, an invigorating traveling musical; Jenna Bass' THE TUNNEL, a moving story of a young girl in search of her father; Jan-Hendrik Beetge's THE ABYSS BOYS a coming-of-age tale amidst rampant corruption and gang violence; and Wanuri Kahiu's PUMZI a startling vision of the future.

My Thoughts:
Saint Louis Blues reminded me of community theatre.  The atmosphere was fun, the performances earnest but unpolished, the production lacking in any sort of real budget, but an enjoyable, entertaining time nonetheless.  It's obvious all the actors are amateurs, but they're having a good time making this little musical and I had a good time watching it over breakfast.

This is director Dyana Gaye's fourth short film, and it seems she's currently seeking funding for a full-length feature.  While Saint Louis Blues lacks polish and depth when compared to Pumzi, I enjoyed it and Gaye has obvious talent and I wouldn't mind seeing more from her.

Bechdel Test:  Pass

Overall:  3/5

(From Around the World in 86 Movies on February 15th, 2013)

The Revenge of Frankenstein, a review by GSyren

Title	The Revenge of Frankenstein (5-035822-065130)
Director	Terence Fisher
Actors	Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, John Welsh
Produced	1958 in United Kingdom
Runtime	86 minutes
Audio	English Dolby Digital Mono, German Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	Arabic, Danish, English, French, German, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish, Hebrew, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Turkish
Overview
My thoughts	The Curse of Frankenstein
My rating	4 out of 5

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on June 1st, 2013)

Pilot Season 2014-15, a review by DJ Doena

Halt and Catch Fire



Halt and Catch Fire @ Wikipedia
Halt and Catch Fire @ IMDb

Synopsis: Set in the early 1980s this is about three employees of a IBM PC clone manufacturer company who want to build a new kind of PC.
They start off reverse engineering the IBM BIOS and then go from there.
These three people are very different and yet excellent at what they do.

My Opinion: The real life's history of the show's name can be read on Wikipedia.
In the beginning I was a bit hard for me to actually care about the characters.
They appeared to be cardboard cutouts for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak from Apple and an Angelina Jolie's Acid Burn from Hackers thrown in the mix.
But after a few episodes they really grew on me and towards the end of the first season I truly wanted them to succeed.
And it's very nostalgic to see them fight over every kilobyte of memory whereas nowadays? "8 gigs are too slow? OK, put in 16 gigs!"



(From Pilot Season 2014-15 on September 8th, 2014)