Jumanji: The Next Level was a fun film! While I think a few choices are less plausible or heart-warming than the movie wants me to believe, it was still thematically consistent with the characters and their life experiences. Also, I never knew I needed to see Awkwafina (young Asian-American actress) to act like an old man from New Jersey, but it ( Read more... )

The reddit user who posts what are widely perceived as the most plausible leaks for the plot to Star Wars IX had an update yesterday from a different source. These leaks do mostly line up with what he's reported before, but they have an "in the worst possible way" spin to them. Cue lots of meltdowns online ( Read more... )

My viewing of kids' movies always takes a hop upward when there's vacation time with relatives. Two days after I saw Frozen 2 with my niece, we watched Big Hero Six. I enjoyed it, even while I was dreading the event that would spark the first really big change... because kids' movies have this affinity for death as a thematic element. And yup, I ( Read more... )

Frozen 2 was better than the first movie, but given that I was not impressed with the first one, that wasn't a high standard to meet. I saw one review that said, "It was good, but not as good as the trailer made me think it would be." That's a fair evaluation ( Read more... )

I was trying to be open-minded, but X-Men: Dark Phoenix deserves its mediocre reviews. At least the first third of the film does; I didn't even make it to the halfway mark. Granted, my opinion was already veering towards negative when I realized that the premise was pulling heavily from the "woman accidentally and/or traumatically is endowed with ( Read more... )

In the last two months I've seen three kids' movies. It's a lot, considering that I don't have kids.

Frozen: aesthetically boring, and not much better with plot. What was up with how the human characters look and sound white, but then some of the trolls sound like black Americans? And I cannot stand the fixer-upper song, but it's also horribly ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying a brief intermission in my July plans. So a quick update on media consumed...

The movie Yesterday, in spite of its young leads, is probably targeting the baby boomer crowd, because ( spoilers )

( mammogram talk )

I'm not the target audience for Disney's efforts to make live-action versions of their films. Even though Beauty and the Beast is in my top 3 of all-time favorite animated films, I never bothered watching the version with Emma Watson.

So I wasn't going to watch the new Aladdin either... and then I read that Guy Ritchie was the director, which ( Read more... )

I watched Captain Marvel for a second time last weekend because it was fun the first time. Still fun the second time, especially since I was able to see my friend Em react to the surprising stuff. (Goose!)

At some point in the last three weeks I finally watched Ant-Man and the Wasp, which was better than the first Ant-Man movie. That's an ( Read more... )