Movie Review: Lightyear
Ah the power of IP can’t even elude Pixar. The studio, famous for its original storytelling, was clearly backed into a corner by Disney and …
Animated
Movie Review: Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Like most people, I was surprised that Disney hadn’t tried to reboot Who Framed Roger Rabbit? yet. Turns out, they’ve just been prepping its successor. …
Movie Review: The Bob’s Burgers Movie
Keeping it 100, I’ve never seen an episode of Bob’s Burgers. However, I ADORED The Simpsons growing up, and I remember the sheer glee I …
Movie Review: The Bad Guys
Barring a How to Train Your Dragon or Shrek, Dreamworks is the little brother of the animated world to the Disney behemoth. Some of this …
Movie Review: Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
And he’s back! After the minor misfire of Where’d You Go Bernadette, Richard Linklater is back in a lane that makes him special. Apollo 10 …
Movie Review: Jujutsu Kaisen 0
I remember getting off the bus after junior high, walking home. A recent friend I made got off at the same stop and said, “Dude, …
Movie Review: Turning Red
The beast within as a storytelling device has been a tale as old as time. When it comes to using animal transformation as a puberty …
Movie Review: Flee
Up until Flee, movies about refugees were either told from the perspective of documentarians going into places where they exist, or straight up fictionalized stories. …
Movie Review: Belle (2021)
With Hayao Miyazaki mostly retired from the animation game. There’s a question in Japan of who is going to pick up his mantle. My current …
Movie Review: Encanto
Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The last Disney/Lin Manuel Miranda pairing produced one of their great recent soundtracks, including a banger of …