Dan Payne

"Osaka" is a captivating drama set in the vibrant city of London, where Osaka, a young Japanese girl, battles an overwhelming feeling of detachment from her surroundings. The film takes us on an emotional journey as Osaka contemplates her existence, struggling to reconcile her identity with the world around her. Haunted by the sense of being an outsider, Osaka shares her inner turmoil through introspective monologues and poignant dialogues, expressing the frustration of feeling like a shadow in her own life. She yearns to break free from this state of detachment and find a genuine connection that will reawaken her spirit. Desperate to escape the maze of her emotions, Osaka embarks on a quest for self-discovery. She immerses herself in therapy, meditation, and self-help methods, hoping to find solace and understanding. As Osaka delves deeper into her journey, she realizes that her search for meaning extends beyond external solutions. It becomes a profound exploration of her own thoughts, emotions, and perspectives. She learns to navigate the labyrinth of her mind, slowly uncovering her true self and finding strength within her vulnerability. "Osaka" is a poignant exploration of the human experience, offering a profound reflection on the universal quest for connection, purpose, and self-acceptance. Through its evocative storytelling, the film inspires audiences to embrace their own inner mazes, encouraging them to persevere, grow, and ultimately find their way back to the light.

What if you couldn't touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face or kiss the boy next door? Everything, Everything tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative 18-year- old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance. Gazing through windows and talking only through texts, she and Olly form a deep bond that leads them to risk everything to be together, even if it means losing everything.

The RiffTrax guys are ready to riff on this story of an 1850's Cuban plantation master and his love triangle with a slave and a dancing sorceress Yambaó. No, it's not a dopey social media app you'd never heard of until it was purchased by Google for billions of dollars. Nor is it a miracle cleaning solution sold in 90s infomercials for only $19.99, including a bonus travel-sized tube of Yambaó. Yambaó, quite simply, is Yambaó, and there's nothing else quite like Yambaó. It's also entirely possible we just enjoy saying Yambaó. Yambaó (AKA Cry of the Bewitched, but why would you call it that when you can call it Yambaó) takes place on a sugarcane plantation in Cuba in the 1850s, and centers on the love triangle between a master, one of his slaves, and Yambaó, the mysterious dancing granddaughter of a sorceress who lives in the wilderness - yeah, we know, another one of those dang Cuban plantation witch love triangle movies we're always doing. It's weird, it's fun, it's flirty, there's a cave granny with evil magic powers, it's Yambaó.