The Cat Returns
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The Cat King’s subjects (meaning well) bestow Haru with many gifts and honors—including kidnapping the young girl and taking her to the kingdom to be wed to Prince Lune…
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) is about a family following the tragic aftermath of 9/11, but it’s a task that the film was simply not up to…
Read MoreLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
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Fans of the books will cringe at some of the bigger discrepancies—Kludd’s capture, the magical energy contained in “flecks”, Digger’s personality in general—while everyone else will wonder why all the events seem to take less than a week’s time. Ga’Hoole jumps from scene to scene with more energy than a caffeinated owl…
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Big 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 MoreThe Lobster
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The best way to watch The Lobster is to understand that it’s an experimental allegory. The bizarre, hyper-direct delivery of the actor’s lines and the short bursts of classical music playing to slow-motion cinematography build a world that highlights the absurdity of life…
Read MoreThe Neverending Story
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The most frustrating part about watching The Neverending Story is how tantalizingly close it is to being a great film…
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 MoreThe Lego Batman Movie
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Batman spends his days watching romantic comedies (alone), eating lobster (alone), and staring at portraits of his parents (when he thinks Alfred isn’t around)…
Read MoreChicken Little
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Chicken Little as awkward as his name suggests. Though tiny, even by anthropomorphic chicken standards, he somehow manages to find ingenious solutions to everyday problems that he causes for himself…
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