Movie Review: Inside Out 2 (2024)

4.5/5 Reviewed June 19, 2024 To me this is on-par with the original, just with a different kind of story (hooray moving forward and not just re-treading!). In this one, Riley has had a very successful childhood but enters puberty on the first day of a hockey camp that could determine her social status through

Movie Review: The Garfield Movie (2024)

2.75/5 Reviewed May 26, 2024 Average animated film about Garfield. Legitimately average. There’s nothing particularly special, and nothing particularly wrong with it. Voice acting is fine (even Chris Pratt is fine), animation is fine, story is perfectly normal with no unexpected twists, jokes are hit or miss, and the film is very clearly aimed at

Movie Review: IF (2024)

4/5 Reviewed May 23, 2024 Comedy/Drama for all ages. As director John Krasinski put it, this is basically a live action Pixar movie that works for kids and adults in different ways. Cailey Fleming is a young girl, Bea, who has returned to stay at her grandmother’s home in NYC while her father is in

Movie Review: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

3.75/5 Reviewed April 19, 2024 This is the first movie ever directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and it’s a great one. It’s an original story set in the famous Lupin III franchise, and was my first time with the character and his friends. It’s basically an animated comedy/action/adventure flick where master thief Lupin and friends decide

Movie Review: Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)

3.5/5 Reviewed April 14, 2024 I’m shocked at how entertaining this movie was, given it’s the third in a series by Adam Sandler that’s family-friendly comedy. Drac and the entire monster gang are back, this time taking a vacation from the hotel by…going on a cruise, aka a floating hotel. The cruise is catered to

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

3.5/5 Reviewed March 8, 2024 Another surprisingly decent entry to the franchise started a bajillion years ago. This one sees Jack Black’s Po team up with tricky fox thief Zhen (Awkwafina) in order to travel to a far away land and stop a shapeshifting chameleon sorceress (Viola Davis). It’s got the same animation, great voice

Movie Review: Soul (2020)

3.5/5 Reviewed February 25, 2024 Pixar film released to streaming during Covid that follows a Jazz pianist who dies and enters…well something. More description than that is pretty big spoilers. A lot of folks told me I’d love it, and I honestly didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, it’s got a lot of good elements, but

Movie Review: Migration (2023)

3.25/5 Reviewed December 21, 2023 Pretty fun family animated adventure comedy about a wacky family of ducks that decide to try migrating to Jamaica for the first time. It’s your standard wacky family road trip film, with weird side characters, family members overcoming their own personal issues and growing (mostly, not all of them), and

Movie Review: The Boy and the Heron (2023)

2.5/5 Reviewed December 20, 2023 *disclaimer: I legit had no idea what this movie was about half the time and it seems that many viewers either loved it or were totally confused, and i’m in the latter group* Legendary Studio Ghibli auteur Hayao Miyazaki’s last film is a semi-autobiographical story in which a young boy,

Movie Review: Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)

3.5/5 Reviewed December 19, 2023 Delightful animated and family friendly remake of Blazing Saddles, complete with Mel Brooks himself. Michael Cera is a dog who crosses into the land of cats (ancient Japan) in order to learn to become a samurai, because one once saved his life. He runs into the washed up mentor figure