Dreamworks is the home of many franchises like Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda. Trolls is another franchise for the studio and the Musical Creatures have a third film with Trolls Band Together. When Branch (Justin Timberlake) was young he was in a boyband with his brothers, but they broke up when […]
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The Little Mermaid (2023) Review
The Little Mermaid is considered one of the great movies from Disney’s animated catalogue. It was the film that started the Disney Renaissance and ushered in a wave of classics like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. 35 years since its release Disney has remade it into a live-action film. Ariel (Halle Bailey) is the youngest daughter of […]
Extrapolations Review
Extrapolations, the new anthology drama set to debut on AppleTV+ this Friday, is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. And, even for people who can laud its big narrative swings, I suspect it will struggle to find an audience throughout its eight episode running time. That’s not a dig at the performances, the […]
DC League of Super-Pets Review
The works of DC Comics have been eclectic. There have been light-hearted Silver Age stories to much darker tales. One of their lighter properties, The Legion of Super-Pets has now been adapted into an animated film. Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) is the loyal companion to Superman (John Krasinski). They are best friends and partners in superheroics. However, […]
Central Park (Spoiler-Free) Review
If you love Bob’s Burgers but wish the series included more musical numbers (and boy, has that show had some great musical numbers), have I got a series for you! Central Park, the first major animation release from Apple TV+, comes from the minds of Burgers writers Loren Bouchard and Nora Smith, adding Josh Gad […]
Snowpiercer (Spoiler-Free) Review
If you haven’t seen Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 post-apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer (which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton and was the Oscar-winning director’s first – and to this point, only – mostly English language film)*, I’d recommend you sit down and watch it immediately. It’s really great. Then I would recommend that you skip this […]