Directed and written by Raul Lopez Echeverria, this is — as the title tells us — the story of Domingo (Eduardo Covarrubias), who lives in a poor neighborhood in Guadalajara. He has lost his wife to divorce and only has work in his life until he learns that his passion for announcing soccer matches can change his entire neighborhood.

While soccer may not be as popular here in America — it’s making strides and the World Cup is a big deal here no as well — you can substitute any sport for what Domingo loves. The idea that he sits on the sidelines of a barely complete pitch and is as passionate about the games as anyone commenting on the biggest matches in the world is why everyone loves him.

I like that Tubi is getting these foreign movies and giving people in our country a chance to see what the rest of the world is like. I may not be a soccer fan but I can feel the passion within this movie and the joy that the characters feel.

You can watch this on Tubi.

This is my holiday tradition. Watching David DeCoteau-directed movies starring Vivica A. Fox.

There’s A Christmas Intern (with Michael Paré and Jackée, no less, and I wonder if they discuss how no one puts the accent on the e in their last names), A Christmas for Mary, Christmas Matchmakers, My Christmas Grandpa and A Christmas Cruise, A Husband for Christmas. They also made The Wrong… series together, which includes movies about an incorrect life coach, high school sweetheart, blind date, cheer captain, Valentine, Prince Charming, Mr. Right, fiancé, real estate agent, cheerleader coach, stepfather, wedding planner, house sitter, cheerleader, tutor, mommy, stepmother, boy next door, teacher, friend, cruise, man, crush, student, child and roommate.

Mariah Carey only thinks she’s the queen of Christmas. Has she been in Sworn Justice: Taken Before Christmas, A New Diva’s Christmas Carol (directed by Rusty Cundieff!), Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays (directed by Fred Olen Ray, as well as A Wedding for Christmas), Holiday Hideaway, A Cozy Christmas Inn, The Christmas Thief, 2nd Chance for Christmas (with Tara Reid and Brittany Underwood), Christmas With a View, Royal Family Christmas, A Royal Family Holiday, A Christmas Wedding, So This Is Christmas, Annie Claus Is Coming to Town, A Holiday Heist and Farewell Mr. Kringle or has she just put out an album? When it comes to basic cable holiday movies, Vivica A. Fox is the holiday diva.

Writer Jay Cipriani also wrote A Christmas for Mary, Carole’s Christmas, A Winter Wonderland, A Christmas Cruise, Sharing Christmas, Sleigh Bells Ring, A Husband for Christmas, Christmas Land, 3 Holiday Tails, A Golden Christmas and A Golden Christmas 3.

Ava (Anna Marie Dobbins) has pretty much been dumped by her boyfriend Dean (Anthony Carro) for his career. She decides that she’s going to spend the holidays in Tinsel, the most Christmas place ever, a small town that reminds her of her days as a little girl. She’s lured in by an ad that Mia (Rylie Coe) has placed in the hopes of finding a new wife for her widowed dad Mason (Marc Herrmann).

Vivica plays the next door neighbor Viv who encourages the love match in this.

Mason has no lens in his glasses but Ava does have a cute dog, which seems to work into the plan Mia has to get a dog of her own. Everything works out, as you knew it would, and we’re off to another holiday movie for DeCoteau and Fox.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Not only is this a kaiju movie, it’s also a comic book movie. Based on the Charlton Comics series Konga, which was an adaptation of the movie Konga and had 24 issues of art by Steve Ditko, this movie was made during COVID-19 lockdown by Brett Kelly, who also made Ouija Shark, Raiders of the Lost Shark, Agent Beetle (which is based on the Dan Garret Blue Beetle), Planet Blood and so many other movies. It uses stuff shot by friends and fans as well as stock footage and footage Brett shot himself.

The laws of public domain are always wild. The Konga comic book came out a year before the movie and is the first appearance of the ape. None of the Charlton Comics had renewed copyrights, placing them into the public’s hands, so this movie could be made while an adaption of the movie couldn’t.

After getting injected with a formula from an alien ship, a gorilla escapes and makes friends with Chance and Grayson. Then he grows to monstrous size and the boys have to figure out how to stop him before the government kills him. One way they try to help is by dressing Chance as a hot dog and trying to lure Konga away from the military.

I warn you that this movie is made with a stuffed animal and a monkey suit. If you’re expecting the poster to be real, you should not watch this. It also has characters with names like Megan Bacon (Ellen Mildred) and Major Bummer (Trevor Payer). Speaking of Major Bummer, someone took the time to complain about how his medals are incorrect on IMDB, which is hilarious, because of all things in this movie to complain about, they took the time to navigate the difficult-to-use IMDB database to remind the filmmaker that he was so wrong and that the character “wears the four stripes of a Navy Captain, not an Army, Air Force or Marine Major’s gold leaf.” I assume the same person also wrote about how the jets were wrong in a movie where a stuffed monkey becomes a 50 foot kaiju simian.

You can get this from SRS Cinema or watch it on Tubi.

While this ETs Among Us film is only twenty minutes, Linda Moulton Howe and narrator/director Cybela Clare analyze parallel binary code warnings from UFOs 35 years apart.

In 1980, a military officer in Bentwaters Air Force base (Britain) witnessed a landed spacecraft and was later mentally bombarded with binary code. This is better known as the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident and is considered by some to be “Britain’s Roswell.”

On December 26, 1980, U.S. military personnel spotted strange lights above Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Air Force officer John Burroughs was one of the men who investigated the event — which Nick Pope has claimed was an actual landing — and said “The woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises. You could see the lights down by a farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared.”

Fellow office Jim Penniston said, “I estimated it to be about three meters tall and about three meters wide at the base. No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer… I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”

Both men have PTSD from the incident and Penniston even claims that he was “bombarded with binary code.” Others say it was just a meteor or the SAS pulling a prank on the U.S. Air Force.

According to this movie, binary code was transmitted to another military man in 2015 in the USA. What do you think? Have you ever been bombarded by binary code?

You can watch this on Tubi.

Taking its title — possibly — from Lifeforce and some ideas from Under the Skin. Chris Alexander’s Space Vampire has Ali Chappell (she’s been in nearly all of his projects, including Necropolis: Legion, Scream of the Blind Dead, It Knows You’re Alone, Girl With a Straight Razor and Parasite Lady) dressed in leather and stalking a victim (Cheryl Singleton) when she isn’t simply filling the frame while low end beats pulse and wave. Alternatively, she’s showering off the blood or puking it in the bathtub.

Also known as Last Dream of the First Girl — yes, my Jean Rollin theories of Alexander’s inspirations seem to be true — Space Vampire takes advantage of being made in Southern Ontario, as the Dundurn Castle, a historic neoclassical mansion, appears. But most of what we see will be images pushed into the brightest state they can be, colors filling the screen and blood, always blood. 

So many reviews of this movie absolutely hate it. I love that it exists on Tubi and someone could be looking for a vampire movie and come across this droning film, one that takes so long and yet is so short to tell whatever nonstory it has. And that’s a compliment. It feels like something that should be confronting you in a museum and yet here it is, next to episodes of old sitcoms and whatever else a free streaming service has to unleash upon the unsuspecting.

If you have no patience, this will test you. If you want to watch a woman in a vinyl catsuit deal with the pain of vampirism while noises whirl under her when she isn’t somewhere outside of Toronto making bloodsucking footprints in the snow, I really have no idea what movie will satisfy that particular craving except for this one.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Renowned psychotherapist Barbara Lamb — who wrote this film — has proof of ET/human hybrids. What are these hybrid species? What are their abilities? Why are they here on Earth? Not only does Lamb have these answers, she also has had several long-term relationships with several hybrid species.

Now, that knowledge can be yours.

According to her website, Barbara Lamb is a “UFOlogy Researcher – Experiencer and Past Life Therapist – Crop Circle Educator.” It goes deeper to explain that “Barbara Lamb offers personalized regression therapy sessions, books, workshops and interviews. She is a world-renowned experiencer therapist, Ufologist, crop circle expert and past life therapist.” She’s also “a longtime psychotherapist, having been licensed in 1976, and a highly trained hypnotherapist and regression therapist since 1984. She had five years of training in regression therapy by the International Association for Regression Research and Therapies.  She became a trainer for that organization as well as for the Professional Institute of Regression Therapy and the International Board of Regression Therapists.  In 1991 she began regressing people to the details of their extraterrestrial encounters, and has regressed well over 2000 people   (in over 4000 regressions) to those and to other paranormal experiences.  This work and her past life therapy and her soul guidance work continues, with sessions in person in San Diego, California and on Skype or Zoom.”

You can check out her YouTube channel here.

There are four 1 star reviews on IMDB and two 10 star reviews. They are as opposite as you can get, the lower end decrying the lack of evidence and the well-reviewed ones enthralled and sure that everything in this movie is gospel. I find myself somewhere in the middle of all of this, but that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t entertained by this.

You can watch this on Tubi.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on November 25, 2021. As I’ll be exploring the films of Cybela Clare this week, this movie has been reposted with some added new material.

I have to thank Bradley Steele Harding for recommending that I watch this while also realizing that his suggestion that I watch this film is like something out of Japanese horror. I’m now obsessed by Cybela Clare and not only want to watch all of her movies, I want to know where she came from, where she’s going and if she wants me to mix her some drinks.

Her Instagram is a mix of images from the film and selfies, telling me not much. According to a 2009 Philadelphia Inquirer piece, she’s from the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia and paints her as an outsider artist.

But let me tell you, you don’t make this kind of movie without being a believer. And this isn’t a “so bad it’s good” laugh off — I don’t believe in that “so bad” term — but more an exploration of exactly what this movie is all about.

The other info I’ve found comes from IMDB: Cybela is fluent in six languages, an Ivy League graduate and former Drama Tutor at Harvard University. She’s also a member of the Explorers Club and has traveled the world documenting international wildlife rescues, which have been incorporated in several of her films.

Starting with a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, who said that the phenomenal world was the product of a blind noumenal will, this movie already sets itself up to be anything like the millions of conspiracy docs that litter Tubi: “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

So alright. Let’s move past making fun, let’s not argue and let’s accept this movie. Good? Great.

Man, I have so many questions, so consider this my attempt to reach out across reality and ask Cybela to answer them:

• Why is this movie a documentary sometimes and a narrative other times?
• Why exactly are aliens coming to our planet?
• If people want to cover this up, how have you been making movies for over a decade and been able to post them to Tubi and Amazon Prime?
• Have you ever seen Tribulation 99?
• Did you pay for this movie all by yourself?
• Did this play in a theater?
• What are your filmmaking influences?
• How many birds do you have?
• Did this movie really cost $2 million?
• How do you stay so happy-go-lucky in the face of danger?
• Is Baby Rainbow still around?

If you ever listened to Coast to Coast when it mattered, you’ll recognize people like Jim Marrs (who wrote Crossfire, one of the sources for Oliver Stone’s J.F.K.), Nick Pope (who ran the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk), UFO researcher Robert Salas, abductee Carrie Boyer, Richard C. Hoagland, Canadian politician Paul Hellyer, Lt. Col. USAF Donald Ware, Linda Moulton Howe, George Filer, original Roswell investigator Stanton Friedman, Clifford E. Stone and more. They all appear in this to add their thoughts as the story moves from narrative to documentary. There’s also a psychic artist named Yanni who is working with the aliens in the hope of saving the humans by revealing the secrets to Cleo which she will tell us through this film.

Yanni Posnakoff is also a real person who sees angels and is devoted to painting 10,000 of them in his lifetime. So is he real? Or is he part of the story? Are any of us real?

There’s also a flashback to when Cybela was abducted as a child and lost her bird Spooky, as well as plenty of moments where we learn the connection to her bird Baby, who is played by her bird Baby Rainbow. It also becomes a spy adventure as well as a real-life version of Footprints on the Moon with no Klaus Kinski to abuse our heroine.

I’m sure by now that you’ve heard of my theory of movies that feel like they were beamed to us from another dimension, a place where they think they’re making a movie about humans but obviously have no clue how humanity acts. This movie goes beyond those men in black-made films to somehow become an auteur absolute film that we cannot hope to understand if we’re not its creator, perhaps even more baffling than a movie like The Astrologer. This feels like it was made for no one other than the bird-loving heroine at its heart and yet she has decided to bestow this gift upon us.

I don’t want to understand this movie better. I want it to baffle me for the rest of my life.

According to the PR for this movie, “Writer / Director Cybela Clare has spent over fifteen years researching various facets of the mysterious phenomena of UFOs and alien abductions. Clare has compared these abductions of humans by a technologically advanced species, to our inhumane use and abuse of less advanced species (animals) on our own planet.”

This last part blows my mind.

“Cybela Clare is the pseudonym for a screen writer/ director, who has already received credit for a well known major motion picture. Because of the sensitive nature of the documentary portion of Bird’s Eye View (which exposes a real government cover-up), Ms. Clare wishes to keep her identity and background anonymous for her own safety and security.”

Please watch this on Tubi or Amazon Prime and help me figure it out.

Canadian CEO/entrepreneur Sebastien Martin is the subject of this 30-minute video in which he explains how he’s had prophetic visions since he was young, even if he tried to ignore it for most of his young adult  years. Then he had a rememberance of his alien past after meeting an Annunaki who told him that he was his brother. So began his self-discovery and in this video, he has an urgent message to give to humanity.

I never heard of the phrase starseed before and this movie opened my mind up to what it means. A starseed is someone like Sebastien, aliens who have been reawakened from another planet to be born here, an idea that some think originated in the 1976 book  Gods of Aquarius. In that book, Brad Steiger somehow went outside of our time to meet with Egyptian goddess Sekmet and learn about the real power in this world.

Starseeds believe that they have special powers, like being able to see ahead in time or heal people, and often travel to other realities and galaxies.

I’ve worked for CEOs that only worked in the middle of the night and who would call you to make you change ads and CEOs that attacked women in elevators when they thought no one was watching, but I have yet to work for a CEO that is a grey, a Nord or a skyfish.

I will not give up hope, however.

This was directed by Cybela Clare, who has made some of the most interesting films that you’re likely to find.

You can watch this on Tubi.