Funny enough, just last night I saw the season three Ted Lasso episode where Higgins dismisses an erratic billionaire as having the "temperament of one of those kids in Willy Wonka that gets murdered …
SYNOPSIS: When Mary Lennox's parents suddenly die, she is sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, on his remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. While exploring, she discovers a hidd…
Onward’s backdrop is the idea that magic, which once saturated the world with wonder and spectacle, has been siphoned away over the centuries by technology and, well, general apathy. Unicorns are the …
To backtrack: Lance is considered the world’s greatest spy. He can extricate himself from any situation with skill, finesse and borderline-superhuman athleticism, and he’s revered by his colleagues at…
Full disclosure: I thought the original Frozen was just okay. I saw it on DVD back in 2014 – after having heard the endless hype for months – and, frankly, was underwhelmed. Sure, the movie was cute, …
I have to admit, I thought the original Lion King was kind of terrifying. The way Scar orchestrates King Mufasa's death is terrible and upsetting to watch, and there just seemed to be a whole lot of m…
This "true story based on an actual lie" is a lovely, very personal film written and directed by Chinese-American Lulu Wang. Based on an incident involving her own grandmother, Wang centers the story …
Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is an ordinary 12-year-old boy, if a bit earnest and solemn for his years. He seems to have the weight of the world on his shoulders, protecting his best buddy Bedders (D…
The House with a Clock in Its Walls was one of those pre-YA books that I remember as a kid. I may or may not have read it, but the title was certainly familiar. Horror-gore director Eli Roth must have…
Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is a glum tween with every reason to be distant from her classmates: Her beloved physicist dad (Chris Pine) disappeared four years ago. Dad and mom (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), brilliant …
I'm a huge fan of the Wallace and Gromit clay-animated short films from Nick Park and Aardman Animation, so I, like many so-called adults I know, was really looking forward to Chicken Run. And to tell…
Over twenty years have passed since Full House ended its original run, but it's still freakishly easy to reenter the Tanner universe. The first episode of Fuller House finds newly widowed DJ Fuller (C…
