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The Eight Mountains - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Each and every year there are plenty of foreign films released that end up being among my very favorite movies of the calendar year, incredible filmmakers from across the globe are constantly delivering some of our best cinema. Last year the Lukas Dhont film from Belgium, Close, and the Iranian film Holy Spider, both made my personal top ten list. The year before the Anders Thomas Jensen film Riders Of Justice from Denmark and in 2020 the Bosnian film Quo Vadis, Aida? were my second favorite films in their respective years. This year will undoubtedly be no exception, i.e. a beautiful new Italian film from directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch called The Eight Mountains is currently available to steam on the Criterion channel. For all the Discovery channel lovers out there, this film’s destination is as gorgeous as they come, although the film itself is slower paced and the a...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Kids Score - 9 of 10 Back in the mid-1980’s, a comic book came out featuring four weapon wielding turtles and received a surprising amount of success. But it wasn’t until 1987 and 1988 that a TV cartoon and series of action figures arrived on the marketplace that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were catapulted into pop culture icons. Since the late 80’s, the band of reptiles have seen several rubber masked and digitally animated incantations hit the silver screen, but now they’re back in theatres with a new animated film from Nickelodeon, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem. The wildly inventive and colorful animation styles blend well with the chaotic energy and youthful vigor of the film. The jokes fly almost as continuously as do the pop culture references, greatly assisting the quick pacing of the just over an hour and a half runtime. While this film is clearly geared towards drawin...