Doggy Bank is mini-series based on a novel by legendary Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis who passed away 100 years ago with little notice outside his country. The series follows the story of a broke and dimwitted slacker who is hired by a mad philosopher to babysit his pampered pooch. What follows is a satirical…

In this February/March Edition of Off The Record our feature film is Dune Part II. We also look at the following films: Inside from (2023), Fear Is The Key (1972), Last Flag Flying from (2017), 65 from (2023) and finally Red Right Hand from (2024) which both Ken and Rasto watched and directed by the…

Joaquin Phoenix (prounced wah-keen) stars in this 2023 surrealist art film called Beau is Afraid, where ever irrational fear seems to come to life partially fueled on by his mother and partially by his inability to have sex. Beau is a middle aged man who never lived up to this mothers expectations and as a…

In this edition of Off the Record we review the following films and TV series. Our Feature for this episode is Le Samourai from 1967, followed by Paint (2023), The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), In Order of Disappearance (2014), Heist 88 (2023), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) and a New Brazilian…

The Million Dollar Hotel is a 2000 art film that follows a FBI agent investigating the suspected murder of a resident who supposedly committed suicide. The prime and bizarre suspect is also a prostitute and the main character has a learning disability who may also be in on it. The thing is most of the…

In this episode we review the following films. I Am Not Okay with This (2020), Silver and the Book of Dreams (2023), Sisu (2020), Devil in Ohio (2022), Star Trek Lower Decks (2020), and The Man from Toronto (2022). Notable Actors include: Christy Hall, Jonathan Entwistle, Jana McKinnon, Jorma Tommila, Emily Deschanel, Jerry O’Connell, Kevin…

Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 dramatic anime set during the events of World War Two Japan. In this episode we brought on our special guest Tyler who is fluent in Japanese culture and language. This film is available in Japanese and two seperate English dubs. Setsuko a young girl and her older brother…

In this Christmas edition of Off the Record, we watched the following films from November. There’s Something in the Barn (2023), Station Eleven (2021), Office Race (2023), Silent Night (2023), Devs (2020), and Exmas (2023). Honorable mention Candy Cane Lane from 2023. Notable actors in the films are Martin Starr, Mackenzie Davis, Joel McHale, Kelsey…

Idiocracy is a 2006 comedy/sci-fi film set on future earth. In present day a very average US army soldier with no family or friends decides to freeze himself as a part of a military experiment. The project goes south and Joe finds himself waking up 500 years in the future. Things couldn’t be worse as…