I intended to post more assiduously about the movies that I saw this year, and then… I totally didn’t, oops. So here are the movies I saw in 2016!

They are a beguiling mixture of animated movies and stuff from the American Film Institute’s Greatest American Movies of All Time, because my friend Myra has made it her goal to watch all of them and ( Read more... )

Went to see Moana yesterday! And it was gorgeous, really stunning animation and beautiful songs - quite different from the usual Disney song style; more epic maybe? I'm not sure how to define it, but it was a lot of fun, very epic sounding, quite appropriate to a magically intrepid ocean voyage ( Read more... )

My mom and I went to see Finding Dory, and I liked it a lot! I haven't seen Finding Nemo for years (I was actually not that enthusiastic about Finding Nemo, but it's been so long I can't remember why. It may have been Marlin. I definitely thought the Dory parts of Finding Dory were stronger than the Marlin parts), so I probably missed some of the ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, Google had a Google doodle based on the work of Lotte Reiniger, a German woman who made the first feature-length animated film in 1926 using silhouette cut-outs. (This article about Reiniger includes a section about the making of the Google doodle, which is also pretty fascinating ( Read more... )

I went to see Zootopia, and you guys, it's totally awesome and you should totally see it, I had a wonderful time. The plot is not the best - it has the problem I have with a lot of movie mystery plots, which is that the clues basically fall in the heroes' laps, because the running time is simply too short for anything else. I loved the characters, ( Read more... )

poeticknowledge asked: What are the top 10 best films you have seen this year (or in the past year, either one ( Read more... )

My mom and I went to see The Good Dinosaur this afternoon. It was fun, but it didn't blow me away like Inside Out did, and I thought the animation was maybe a bit too flashy. I mean, it's terribly impressive - their water scenes in particular blew me away; it looks like real water! - and I can see why they wanted to show that off. But at the same ( Read more... )

One of my birthday resolutions (birthday resolutions, that's totally a thing, right?) was to post here more often, and I got to a good start on that and then sort of fizzled and...now I'm giving it another go.

I have a lot of movies I want to post about (I saw Snowpiercer, you guys, it's like someone saw Les Miserables and was like "I wanna make ( Read more... )

“That’s not a house. That’s termites holding hands,” protests the taxi driver, when he drops MK off at her father’s house. MK also looks at the house with trepidation, although not for the same reason: she hasn’t seen her father in ages, ever since her father wrecked his career and his marriage because of his belief that tiny people live hidden in ( Read more... )

And now for three movies that are most quite different! From Up On Poppy Hill is a gentle, picturesque period piece about Japan in 1963, which focuses on the first post-World War II cohort’s coming of age. It is perhaps the only animated film I’ve seen that has no magical elements, but there’s a gentle, nostalgic glow about the story and the ( Read more... )