To be honest, I struggled to pay attention to this rather trite but also rather weird animated film. Maybe I wasn’t the target market, maybe it was being lazy, maybe it was just all over the place. The flick is … Continue reading
The Tiger Rising is a pretty decent little family drama that shares some DNA (but not the heart-wrenching agony) of My Girl and Bridge to Terabithia. It has, at its heart, a nice conundrum for its kids but it really … Continue reading
Sometimes you scrape the bottom of the barrel and find something that’s not as bad as you thought. I mean, I’m being super charitable here… this is a pretty mediocre movie but I kind of also found it inoffensive enough. … Continue reading
Oddly enough, I’ve never seen the original Spirit (Stallion of the Cimarron) ) so it’s a little perplexing I bothered tromping to the cinemas to watch this kid’s film remake? Sequel? But I have an AMC Stubs card burning a … Continue reading
Flora & Ulysses is a “good enough” family film. It doesn’t seem to have any inspiration to rise above what it is: a basic Disney family-friendly fantasy adventure about a superhero squirrel. And, hey, when you have all the Marvel … Continue reading
Checked out the new Disney+ family zoo comedy The One and Only Ivan. This flick is based on a book that I haven’t read and is based on a true story… a line on screen that appears a few seconds … Continue reading
I went to see the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie. In part because I liked the original games back in the 90s but, honestly, mostly out of curiosity. Curiosity to see if the publicized redesign of the original creepy CGI … Continue reading
So there’s a live action Dora the Explorer movie at the theaters now called Dora and the Lost City of Gold. And I went to see it, oddly enough, given that about all I know about Dora is that it … Continue reading
Disney’s Lion King remake is out now. It’s the latest in a long line of remakes but this one is somehow the re-make-iest of them all. For both good and bad… but mostly bad. So here’s some math. Take … Continue reading
I went into Toy Story 4 thinking it really didn’t need to exist. Toy Story 3 was a perfectly good send-off to the series, packing an emotional punch and a conclusion that reminded us all we have to grow up … Continue reading