Tag: Animation
Why I’m Excited: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7
Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered during a very different time at Lucasfilm. The prequels had finished three years prior, and George Lucas was planning on moving into television. His goals were simple: To create a live-action TV show and 100 episodes of the CGI animated series. Although the live a...
Read MoreREVIEW: Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
When Disney announced that Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to 1964’s Mary Poppins, was in the works, I was intrigued but incredibly nervous. I find myself saying that more and more about Disney projects, especially sequels, reboots, or pretty much continuations of any kind. I say all the time that ...
Read MoreWhy I’m Excited: Young Justice: Outsiders
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD! I’m a sucker for 90s animation. I remember watching Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s Batman: The Animated Series every night on Cartoon Network at 6:00 and 6:30 (yes, I remember the time; don’t judge me). It had a darkness to it, and a noir sensibility that, in many ways, is t...
Read MoreREVIEW: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
There is no shortage of Spider-Man-related content in mainstream media. After the initial Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, we were soon given the Amazing Spider-Man films. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 didn’t perform at the level Sony expected, which caused them to scrap plans to expand that universe...
Read MoreREVIEW: Star Wars Resistance – Season One, Episode Eleven “Station Theta Black”
*Spoilers* In “Station Theta Black,” Yeager has loaned Kaz the Fireball, angering Tam. Yeager reminds the feisty mechanic that he technically still owns the ship, to her reply that one of the stabilizers is still missing; she’s angry because she was in the process of fixing it. We cut to K...
Read MoreREVIEW: Mirai (2018)
Family is a powerful word. When we think of family, we often think of some of the most important people in our lives. Mirai is a movie that understands the importance of family and decides to tell that story through the lens of a young boy named Kun. Mamoru Hosoda has been one of my favorite filmm...
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