The Alex Archives

  Story - Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night in this subtitled, Spanish-language animated adventure. Cast - Yair Prado, Mónica del Carmen, Rafael Inclán, Andrés Couturier Crew - Alberto Rodríguez (Director/Writer), Ricardo Arnais (Writer), Omar Mustre (Writer), Jesús Gumán (Writer) Runtime - 81 minutes          

Physical Media is a distant memory to many but an important archival effort for others. Streaming Services have been gaining so much ground in the Home Entertainment market thas is making retailers leave. The absence of physical media creates a place where these services are the ones to choose what can be shown on their platforms, they have the ability to censor or “update for modern sensibilities” depending on if it would give them more money and fewer problems on Social Media. Mexico’s film history is admired outside the country and fondly remembered with the Golden Era of Mexican movies sadly there are few physical releases of catalog content, particularly pre-2000s movies. During the heyday of DVDs many companies like Zima dedicated part of their catalog to releasing Mexican movies on DVD, of course, in bad quality and sometimes unrestored. Nowadays, it seems nobody in the country actually cares about these movies. If they are newly restored they go to American companies to put on ...