Dear Santa (2024)
“It was a mistake.” Plagued by horrible acting, lazy direction, and a wayward tone that feels neither right for audiences or children or a blend of the two, Dear Santa […]
Tag Archives: Fantasy
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
“Nobody reads the fine print.” Based on a real life tradition in El Segundo, California where the Christmas decorations are an actual competition, Candy Cane Lane attempts to borrow that reality […]
Barbie (2023)
“Do you guys every think about dying?” An entire world of make believe comes to lavish life in Barbie, a gorgeous looking film that visually sparkles as much as it […]
Field of Dreams (1989)
“Until I heard the voice, I’d never done a crazy thing in my whole life.” A pitch perfect opening montage introduces us to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) as he briefly […]
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
“Every rejection, every disappointment, has led you here. To this moment. Don’t let anything distract you from it.” The family laundry business is no longer profitable in Everything Everywhere All […]
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 […]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
“Your brother is with the ancestors.” Intimate and epic. Bold, colorful, otherworldly, built with great scale and by a collective of inspired eyes. This flawed yet grieving film is rich […]
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 […]
Afterlife of the Party (2021)
“There are no grudges in the afterlife.” Silly, surprisingly sad, and seemingly pulled straight out of the neon 80’s, Afterlife of the Party is the kind of fleeting film that […]
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 […]
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