I moderately enjoyed Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. The film retains the playful spirit and the illusions that made the franchise successful. But I felt that the magic was less effective this time around.

I’m bringing back the little mentalism trick I used in my review of the first film ( It’s the only one that I know ☺️) :

1. Choose any number between 1 and 10.
2. Multiply it by 9.
3. If you get a…

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J’ai regardé Piqukelot & Mortubert sans trop savoir à quoi m’attendre, et c’est probablement la meilleure façon d’aborder ce court-métrage complètement éclaté. Dès les premières secondes, on comprend que le court ne cherche pas à être conventionnel. Il plonge plutôt dans un univers absurde et volontairement décalé où l’humour étrange devient sa véritable force.

Ce que j’ai apprécié, c’est justement cette liberté. Le film donne l’impression que ses créateurs se sont permis de faire exactement ce qu’ils voulaient,…

The animation here is much more than a mere aesthetic device: it forms the very substance of the film. The stop-motion, with its hand-crafted puppets, rejects any pursuit of beauty. The faces are heavy, sad, imperfect, marked by the premature wear of a working-class life in Saint-Henri, a neighborhood in Montreal, at the beginning of the 20th century. Every feature seems to carry the fatigue of a neighborhood shaped by labor, extreme poverty, and the absence of choice.

The choice…

Challenge 2026: Classics I’ve Never Seen – 22/52

The film raises a deeply philosophical question:
is it better to live a short life in freedom, or a long life while giving up who you truly are? Thelma and Louise chose freedom!

Through their escape, they are not only trying to outrun the police. Above all, they are trying to escape a life in which they had stopped feeling truly alive. The road then becomes a symbol of inner transformation, self-discovery,…