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If you are looking for a film that will explain the here after look no farther than Artisse. This little gem is both well scripted and well acted. Normally films shot in Houston, Texas emphasize the fact that it is the oil capital of the world but this film finds the gritty places where graffiti rules. When Artisse comes back from the land of the dead, she discovers that everything has changed. She also realizes that the message she brings back from her departed father can change the destiny of her mother forever. The train sequences are especially convincing showing both the hard core aspects of those areas and showing the continual passage of time. The miracle scenes are well done for a low budget film and are actually quite believable. Using an all girl graffiti gang is a nice plot twist.

What can you say about a film that combines elements from Wizard of Oz, David and Goliath, and Jack and the Beanstalk all to different degrees? Well if that film is Jake and the Giants you can say. "Well done." Jake and the Giants, starts out a bit like the Hobbit a quaint village who's people exist through farming relatively safe from the crazy disjointed world that exists around them That world is full of greed, murder, slavery and inhabited by a world of giants who care about nothing except their own desires. When the two worlds collide the story picks up momentum. Utilizing a cadre of flying monkey's and their Dragon Boat, the Giants kidnap members of Shilow Valley taking them far up into the mountains and forcing them to work in their dark dank dingy mines. The action picks up from there as the youngest and smallest in the village realize - "You are never too small" to change your world and they set out on an adventure to rescue their fellow villagers.