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Tag: family
REVIEW: Star Wars: Resistance – Season 1, Episodes 1-4 “The Recruit,” “The Triple Dark” and “Fuel for the “Fire”
*Spoilers* “The Recruit” opens with three pilots trying to deliver Intel to the Resistance. One pilot tells the others to turn back and he’ll do it. Soon, First Order vessels catch up to him and damage his ship, but Poe Dameron arrives and saves him. The young pilot introduces himself as Kazuta Xiono, the son…
You Should Be Watching: Paranorman (2012)
“I didn’t ask to be born this way.” “Funny, neither did we.” Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend movies and TV shows that deserve more attention than they’ve gotten. In keeping with the Halloween theme I’ve adopted for the season, this week we’ll be communing with ghosts in the town of…
REVIEW: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
“There’s a clock in the walls. We don’t know what it does, except… something horrible.” Last Friday, Universal released The House with a Clock in Its Walls, based on the 1973 John Bellairs children’s mystery novel of the same name. I had never read or heard of the book, but the film’s trailers and cast…
You Should Be Watching: The Others (2001)
“Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead.” Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend movies and TV series that deserve more love. This week we’re living among the dead with Nicole Kidman in the suspense-filled horror film The Others. This movie excels at exactly…
REVIEW: Moana (2016)
“You are the future of our people, Moana. They are not out there; they are right here. It’s time to be who they need you to be.” 2016 was the first time since 2002 that Disney animation released two features in one year. I distinctly remember watching Zootopia and thinking, “Wow, there’s no way they’ll…
REVIEW: Summer Wars (2009)
Mamoru Hosoda is one of the best anime directors working today. When I watch his films, I can understand the comparisons he gets to the great Hayao Miyazaki. His movies have a strong emotional core and oftentimes deal with family as the main theme. Of them all, Summer Wars is the movie to which I find myself…