Tag: Animation
REVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 3, “Replacements”
The Bad Batch is off to a great start with the episodes “Aftermath” and “Cut and Run.” With today’s third episode, “Replacements,” Omega takes a more active role within the Batch as Imperial progress marches ever forward. After last week’s slower, char...
Read MoreREVIEW: Shrek Forever After (2010)
In 2010, DreamWorks Animation completed the main Shrek film series with its fourth installment, Shrek Forever After. Shrek the Third is the only Shrek film I saw in the theater;, I saw Shrek Forever After by chance when my grandmother got us the DVD. I didn’t like the movie much, but it was st...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 2, “Cut and Run”
After escaping Kamino with the enigmatic female clone Omega, the Batch are back for round 2. The Bad Batch had an excellent series premiere, tying into several different periods of Star Wars history and focusing on the plight of the clones following order 66. Can this series keep that momentum up an...
Read MoreREVIEW: Pom Poko (1994)
Released in 1994, Pom Poko is based on a true story of urban development in 1960s Japan. The film details how the destruction of sacred forests affected tanuki, or wild Japanese raccoon dogs. Like many of Isao Takahata’s films, Pom Poko presents its story without message or judgment, leaving t...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 1, “Aftermath”
It’s Star Wars Day, which means it’s time for the latest Star Wars animated series to kick off. The Bad Batch was introduced in a 4-episode story arc in season 7 of The Clone Wars. Clone Force 99 consists of four mutated clones with special abilities along with Echo, who joined them in t...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
On Friday, April 30th, Netflix released the latest film from Sony Pictures Animation, The Mitchells vs. The Machines. Coming from executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), the film follows a ...
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