Why Disobedience is Good in Del Toro’s Pinocchio
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for almost 140 years now, Pinocchio has been told as a fable about a boy learning what makes a person good
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a mixed bag of groundbreaking technology and fascinating cutthroat politics, spoiled by a distastrous finale.
Read MoreThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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The Andersonian style isn’t as polished as his other works, but where it triumphs is, for all the vague atmosphere, it still creates a beautiful character arc with Steve Zissou…
Read MoreGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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In the words of Baby Groot: welcome to the frickin’ Guardians of the Galaxy. (Only he didn’t use “frickin.’”) …
Read MoreIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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The Temple of Doom is like the story you’d read about in an old-fashioned dime novel—the kind with the woman in tattered clothing swooning while the intrepid explorer defends her from a jungle tiger...
Read MoreBig Trouble in Little China
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White dude stumbling across ancient Asian mystic war? Check. Asian warriors literally floating in the air with lightning shooting out of their eyes? Yup…
Read MoreFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes a step back in time and across the pond to New York City in 1926. Newt Scamander, an avid Magizoologist, is in the midst of compiling a book collection about magical creatures…
Read MoreIndiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
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But like I said before, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the few films that I’m willing to overlook its many negatives and purely enjoy the positives. It’s a fast-paced, thrilling adventure with spectacular stunts and action sequences…
Read MoreKubo and the Two Strings
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Kubo embarks on a quest to find his father’s magical armor to defend himself against the Moon King. Along the way, Kubo receives aid from Monkey, who has come to life from a wooden snow monkey charm his mother gave him, and Beetle, a samurai soldier in the form of a beetle…
Read MoreThe Little Prince
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whenever the story follows the Little Prince in his travels, it’s absolutely mesmerizing. The production used stop-motion animation for these sequences, and all the characters were made out of thin, practically see-through paper…
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