2024 Academy Award Short Films: 5/5
I was going to mark this as four stars, but I had to toss an extra half just for how harrowing this was basically from go. Though a fictional account of what happens at a South African nature reserve during COVID, the film folds into its narrative a version of the 2012 poaching of Thundi the white rhinoceros. You feel in particular for Litha, who loses her innocence by not only seeing this creature…
2024 Academy Award Short Films: 4/5
It’s either this one or The Last Ranger that are getting the win, I’m convinced of that. As we learn more and more about the Trump administration’s practice of removing undocumented people, including those who have been here their whole lives such as main character Oscar (hey now,) this came just in time to show just one example of what ICE gets up to: the very real practice of removing people at their Green…
these 5 stars are for Bill Murray inexplicably returning as Nick Valentine the lounge lizard, NOT for Jimmy Fallon
had to make sure i log this while i’m at Shapeland before it closes!
shout-out to Wally Langham
