Movie Review: The Boxtrolls
Laika Studios proudly keeps stop motion animation charming and inventive in the CGI world of animation today. Coraline and Paranorman are thoughtful and clever stories …
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Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Scottish Vikings of Berk are back. How to Train Your Dragon 2 blows out the scope of the first film to new lands and …
Movie Review: The Wind Rises
The Wind Rises is animator Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. Famous internationally for crafting animated classics like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, Miyazaki strikes another win …
Movie Review: The LEGO Movie
Legos are near the top of the best toys ever invented. Nothing encourages imagination and ingenuity in a child better than random blocks that can …
Movie Review: Frozen
Frozen is delightfully old school. The latest production from Disney is based on an old fairy tale, features a couple of cute creatures, has some …
Movie Review: Monsters University
Monsters University stops the bleeding by Pixar. The movie doesn’t quite hit the moviemakers’ highest of highs, but it does hit some very good emotional …
Movie Review: Frankenweenie
Tim Burton must have really loved his dog. Frankenweenie is clearly right in Tim Burton’s wheelhouse: a combination of a lonely boy-lovable dog relationship coupled …
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is Pixar’s piece de resistance. Coupling the originality of the first Toy Story with the pathos of the second one, Toy Story …
Movie Review: Wreck-It-Ralph
Disney Animation lives in the shadow of its much bigger brother Pixar. Yes I’m aware both are owned by Disney, but their homegrown movies (Bolt, …
Movie Review: Princess Mononoke
It is a shame more people in the United States do not know the name Hayao Miyazaki. He is Japan’s version of Disney: his animations …