“Humans, monsters, what’s the difference?” In Hotel Transylvania 3, a deranged, curmudgeonly, wispy haired old white man makes it his lifelong mission to eradicate all of the monsters already outcast from […]
“You’re not good enough.” In the same way that I struggle to recommend or even enjoy many animated kid’s movies nowadays, faith-based films (specifically the countless Christian productions flooding my […]
“You certainly don’t understand the importance of balance.” I’ll say this for A Wrinkle in Time – the film is utterly fearless. And still, like the bullied kid at the summer watering […]
What a year for the movies. It seems like I’m always having to defend the integrity and the quality of what’s actually available out there to curious family members and […]
“My parents always said that I have an overactive imagination.” The Boss Baby comes to us as unexpectedly as one of those tabloid headlines about a woman who thought she had months […]
“Who could ever learn to love a beast?” There’s a reason that the 1991 Disney film was the only animated movie ever nominated for Best Picture up until the category […]
“Don’t spoil it now by speaking.” If you were to huff and puff away at the hallucinogenic pipe of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and ash the embers inside the awkward teenage […]
“Don’t go gettin’ attached. He’s gonna have to be obliviated.” The worldwide phenomenon of the Harry Potter franchise is the direct result of personal attachment. We cared about those characters. We came […]
“If you must blink, do it now.” From the onset, Kubo and the Two Strings uses the above quote to command our immediate attention, and by the time it’s through we’re left […]
While the season technically isn’t over more than three weeks into September, with schools already in session and Labor Day on the horizon, we can go ahead and chalk up summer 2016. […]
