The 2023 Academy Awards: Thoughts and Predictions
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: The Oscars love a comeback story, and I’m not sure there’s one more indicative of the Academy’s push for more racial inclusion than Ke […]
Category Archives: Family
Slumberland (2022)
“You’re just a figment of my imagination.” Full of inventive adventures, fueled by classic bedtime stories, and packing a fresh way of presenting the sleepy material in a new and […]
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
“Magic has a way of uniting things that ought to be together.” Familiar and sentimental, the long awaited Hocus Pocus 2 feels like a place revisited yet renovated for the already […]
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
“I’m not good at this.” More painful than a blow torch to the head, a can of paint to the skull, or a nail to the heel of the foot, […]
CODA (2021)
“Do you have something to say?” It’s not often that both the funniest and the most heartfelt pictures of the year coalesce as one, but I think that might end […]
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
“You can’t be great without putting in work.” Overlong, overblown, and emblematic of what can go wrong when a studio so obviously sees its big budget picture as a product […]
Yes Day (2021)
“I said yes to everything.” Yes Day should’ve be a fun movie and a fun time. It needed to be a cheap Chuck E. Cheese pizza party, a family centric […]
The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)
“Was it as good as last time?” Everything that mildly worked with 2018’s The Christmas Chronicles – the joy, the vast wonder, the childlike sense of belief – has been sucked […]
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
“I think it’s time for a new story.” There’s so much magic and humanity on display in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey that it’s almost hard to formally criticize, let […]
Artemis Fowl (2020)
“Get the four leaf clover out of here.” Maddening, gaudy, and downright confusing from the awkward start to the clumsy finish, Artemis Fowl seems to have been a failed endeavor […]
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