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The Portable Door (2023)
There's a decent film hidden within
This film of almost two hours could be an excellent film if, inter alia, it were shortened to not much more than ninety minutes-though some scenes particularly at the beginning, were unnecessarily rushed.
For example, a lengthy episode of our two leads wandering into some very attractive places, several times, and then just sitting therein admiring the view could be a much shorter but more entertaining montage.
A cynic might call this a live-action remake of Monsters Inc. As far as the conceit of a door which leads people into other places goes.
Despite its being co-produced by the Jim Henson Company the goblins looked ugly but charmless.
The Point (1971)
I cast my vote for a DVD release.
I cast my vote not only for a DVD release of The Point, but also for it to have (a) the soundtrack remastered with the respect it deserves and (b) Dustin Hoffman restored to the narration. I was lucky enough to see it once by accident on TV during the school holidays in the mid-seventies and, over the years, I have proclaimed its many virtues (e.g, the soundtrack, the moral, and the fine use of a real boy, instead of an actress, for the boy's voice).