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Darling Nikki (2019)
Shows Potential
This is a fantastic student film. I'm looking forward to the director's future professional work.
Like most student films, this work seems to showcase specific techniques that are of interest to the student director, but for which no larger context or conceptual direction is evident.
It's interesting how the director has taken remarkable pains to keep this film (barely) at a PG-13 rating level, even though the content is more suggestive of an R movie.
Even though it might not have full frontal nudity, this isn't exactly the sort of movie you would screen at a junior high school assembly or for a church group. The near-nudity that is nearly always presented in a sexual context is close enough.
Unfortunately, although the individual vignettes that comprise the film are well-done for a student work, they never quite gel together into the artistic whole expected from a more experienced professional. The potential is there, however, for the director to create something remarkable in the future.
I, Caesar: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (1997)
Not Terrible, But Dated
"I, Caesar" is a largely traditional documentary overview of some of the key representative milestones in the history of the Roman Empire. The overall content is good, although some of the finer points are starting to show their age from the viewpoint of modern scholarship. The presentation style itself is fairly pedestrian, especially by contemporary standards, but watchable enough. Note that the "18+" or "TV-14" rating assigned by some streaming services for "I, Caesar" is difficult to understand, since none of the purported "nudity", "sexual content", or "violence" (or anything like it) seems to be present (unless you count classical artwork, perhaps); the entire series could be presented to sixth graders without raising any eyebrows (assuming that the students could keep their eyes open).
Nova: Secrets of Noah's Ark (2015)
Fascinating Historical Background
This fascinating overview highlights some of the best scholarship and research to date on the flood story, showing how it evolved from its origins at the dawn of civilization to become one of the most powerful expressions of faith in the theology underlying Judaism. The account of the recreation of the original design of the ark is extraordinary and engaging. This was one of Nova's better documentaries.