SNAPSHOTIn Disney Animation’s Wish, Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the Continue Reading
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Flammable or inflammable? Fun teaser trailer drops for post-alien apocalypse show Mulligan
SNAPSHOTFollowing the last living humans who find themselves tasked with rebuilding civilization from scratch, Mulligan features a star-studded cast of comedic actors. Along with producer Fey who voices scientist and single mom Dr. Farrah Braun, Nat Faxon will expand his ventures into voice acting as the titular hero. Additionally, Chrissy Continue Reading
Celebrate a very Winnie the Pooh Easter in Springtime with Roo
Watching a delightful animated special like Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo comes with an easter basket full of seasonal cognitive dissonance if you’re from the Southern Hemisphere, in this case, Australia. For her way down in the Antipodes, Easter marks the arrival of Autumn, a time when everything’s still Continue Reading
Get fired up! Character posters and new trailer make a splash for Pixar’s Elemental
SNAPSHOTDisney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they Continue Reading
Discover the hero just below the surface: Meet Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
SNAPSHOTSweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach Continue Reading
Movie review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Pinocchio is one of those stories that we think we know intimately and well, thanks to the 1940 Disney animated version of the book by The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (with illustrations by Gris Grimly) which has gripped the public consciousness ever since its release and which defines for many Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Love burns fiercely if shyly in Extinguished
SNAPSHOTIn a world where flames represent love, it’s easy to get your heart burned. (courtesy YouTube (c) Ashley Anderson and Jacob Mann) Being attracted to someone romantically is pretty exciting. All those swirly emotions, all that hope, those waves of thrilling possibility – it’s a delight! But sometimes, no oftentimes, Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Magician’s Elephant, Tetris and John Wick: Chapter 4
As with any storytelling medium, there’s a huge diversity of narrative options in movies. That’s on vibrantly full display with today’s selection which encompasses an animated search for belonging and connection, some tense Cold War politicking bundled up with an origin story and some good old-fashioned, globetrotting shoot-em-up vengeance like Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Kite and a beautifully moving story of connection
SNAPSHOTSummer is about to end, and while fruit is growing ripe on the trees, Grandpa gives his beloved Grandson a kite. The kite is strong and tosses the boy around in the air, but Grandpa catches him. Leaves begin to fall and Grandpa has grown weak. The srong autumn wind Continue Reading
Boldly going animatedly towards … Thoughts on Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3
Star Trek is by and large, occasional episodes of whimsy aside, very serious science fiction. Predicated on the laudably idealistic premise that humanity, some centuries hence, has finally got its collective sh*t together and ventured into the stars where it has associated with likeminded alien species in a bravely enduring Continue Reading