Animation… Movie #2 2022: Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) 6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022 What's that? I've inadvertently made my first two films of the year both Olivia Colman movies? Whoops. I promise I will watch movies from outside of Colman's filmography at some…
Animation… Movie #233 2021: Ratatouille (2007) 25 Dec 202124 Dec 2021 Happy holidays, folks! Thought I'd mark the occasion with... a movie that isn't about Christmas in the slightest. Maybe I'll watch one or two more festive-based movies before the year…
christmas… Movie #227 2021: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) 13 Dec 20219 Dec 2021 There are a lot of bad remakes in cinema history. Psycho (1998) and Old Boy (2013) regularly top lists of the worst ones of all time. Enter Home Sweet Home…
adventure… Movie #226 2021: A Boy Called Christmas (2021) 11 Dec 20219 Dec 2021 Do you get the same sinking feeling that I do when you hear the words "Sky" and "Original"? Those two words honestly feel like the kiss of death to me.…
Action… Movie #222 2021: Jungle Cruise (2021) 27 Nov 202125 Nov 2021 When Jungle Cruise was released back in the summer of this year, I'll admit that it looked fun. I like Dwayne Johnson. I really like Emily Blunt. The trailers looked…
Animation… Movie #217 2021: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 8 Nov 20211 Nov 2021 I understand how fond so many people are of this film. I mean, for some, it's a yearly "must watch" for this period between Halloween and Christmas that we're in...…
Animation… Movie #211 2021: Corpse Bride (2005) 27 Oct 202126 Oct 2021 Love him or loathe him, Tim Burton is a fantastic storyteller. Without his penmanship, we would never have had Edwards Scissorhands. Without his directorial prowess, we would never have had…
adventure… Movie #204 2021: The Rescuers (1977) 22 Sep 202121 Sep 2021 Isn't it strange when a movie was made 15 years before you were born, but you distinctly remember its style as something you grew up with? The Rescuers has that…
Animation… Movie #190 2021: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017) 18 Aug 202111 Aug 2021 Like so many other fans of Studio Ghibli, I was disheartened and upset to hear that their latest movie, Earwig and the Witch, had been almost universally panned by critics.…
Animation… Movie #172 2021: Luca (2021) 5 Jul 202125 Jun 2021 Pixar's latest movie Luca has been under a lot of scrutiny online recently. Many critics see the film as way too average for the usually profound animation studio, and though…
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