Growing up with a lot of Disney, I’ve always loved animated movies. So even as a middle-aged adult, I enjoy catching up with a lot of these movies. These days there are a steady flow of them coming to theatres and streaming channels, and their visual quality and production values seem quite high. The only…
Category: Fantasy
Thor: Love and Thunder – Movie Review
After watching Thor: Love and Thunder, I really have no idea what the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s current “phase 4” (of which this movie is the midpoint) is really all about. For the most part, it’s been a bunch of new characters that haven’t exactly made a huge splash, and a few middling stories/sequels with established…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 2
Sorry that it’s been over a week since part one, but I’ve been preoccupied with catching up on the new summer TV (especially Stranger Things), so here’s my take on a few more shows that have started-up/resumed recently. Stranger Things Though I had loved the last season a lot, I confess that I wasn’t as…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Movie Review
The multiverse sure is becoming a popular travel destination. Between the recent sleeper hit, Everything Everywhere All At Once, the latest season of Star Trek: Picard, and of course, Marvel’s recent fun with variants in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the TV series Loki, everyone’s dabbling in alternate realities. This time, Doctor Strange gets multiversal…
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Movie Review
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! When a new Harry Potter movie came out, it was sold-out, top of the box office for weeks, but this was the second weekend for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and I was just in a theatre with only three others in the audience! (You probably don’t even…
Midwinter TV 2022
Even though there are now new shows popping up at any time of the year, winter seems to be a bit like the new fall. A number of shows have debuted over the last couple of months, some good and some meh. Here’s a few that I’ve watched (many of you may have watched some…
Is it still Fall TV 2021?
The fall TV season has finally died. I don’t mean there’s nothing new or good to watch, but just that the traditional period when TV networks would bring out new and returning shows has lost the last of its significance. This year, I barely noticed when the networks kicked-off new shows (a few weeks/months ago?)…
Luca – Movie Review
What could be better on a warm summer afternoon than Pixar’s latest gelato scoop of a movie about two boys (who also happen to be sea monsters) having a little fun in the eternal Italian summer? While it’s not groundbreakingly original (compared to some past Pixar masterpieces), this enjoyable film really captures the warm, languid…
Raya and the Last Dragon – Movie Review
In this strange year of movie-watching at home, it’s unfortunate that Raya and the Last Dragon didn’t get the big screen exposure that it deserved. (With cheapskates like myself, who sadly didn’t even want to shell out the $30 premium money to watch it several months ago, we’ve treated a beautiful, fun, exciting, enjoyable potential…
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