Mac and Me (1988)
“Just trust them.” There was something so strange about revisiting Mac and Me so many years later. I spent nearly 20 minutes rewinding the old, used, grainy VHS tape; as a […]
Category Archives: Family
Christopher Robin (2018)
“It’s easy to lose your way on a foggy day.” Christopher Robin is an idealistic – and some could absolutely argue unrealistic – outlook on the hardships of adulthood. That’d […]
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
“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 […]
I Can Only Imagine (2018)
“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 […]
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
“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 […]
The Top 50 Films of 2016
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 […]
The Boss Baby (2017)
“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 […]
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
“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 […]
Girl Asleep (2016)
“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 […]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
“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 […]
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