Also checked out Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, the five-year-later sequel to the pretty good Disney live-action-but-flipped-on-its-head remake of Sleeping Beauty. That movie was pretty early in the Disney live action remake routine and, as such, actually tried to make a … Continue reading
How to Train Your Dragon (3): The Hidden World is the least of the series, but it’s still not a bad film. Just a little slow, just a little disappointing… and somehow the end of a trilogy? So the … Continue reading
Checked out the new action/adventure fantasy flick The Kid Who Would Be King. This is a very 80s throwback kid-friendly flick about a kid who finds out he’s the heir to Excalibur when he pulls it from the stone … Continue reading
So there’s yet another Robin Hood movie out this week cleverly called Robin Hood. This one differs from the usual version of the story by both being exceedingly dumb and assuming its audience is exceedingly dumb. Boy… you can tell … Continue reading
So the new movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the first outright bad movie in the long running Harry Potter / Wizarding World series. *gasp* I know, right? Each mainline Harry Potter movie was varying levels of good … Continue reading
Checked out the great big shrug of a movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. This is what you get when the studio wants to make a Nutcracker Christmas movie, someone else slates it for October, and then a third … Continue reading
Rented the relatively new Japanese anime film Mary and the Witch’s Flower. This is a film produced by employees who left Studio Ghibli when Hayao Miyazaki retired (before un-retiring) so it has a pedigree of talent behind it. Unfortunately, it … Continue reading
Rented an iTunes flick (that is also available in limited theatrical release) called I Kill Giants… based on a graphic novel I gather but also sharing a lot of DNA with A Monster Calls and Troll Hunter. That’s neither here … Continue reading
The word from critics is that the new big budget film version of the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time is bad. Unfortunately, I agree. Based on the first novel in the series by Madeline L’Engle, it was a tough … Continue reading
Watched the new Netflix original movie Bright starring Will Smith as an LA cop in a modern American full of humans, orcs, and elves living side-by-side. It’s in the book genre of urban fantasy but I’m not sure there have … Continue reading