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OVER THE MOON

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

OVER THE MOON

OVER THE MOON sensitively takes on a difficult subject, the loss of a mother with the subsequent prospect of a blended family. It becomes a film that is respectful of the issue, yet triumphantly uplifting in it message of moving on while still honoring the past. Along the way, we learn about the importance of… Read More »

Tagged With: biker chick, blended family, lunar landscape, moon cake, moon festival, Moon Goddess

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

The animation in THE CROODS: A NEW AGE is just as lovely as it was in the original. As we find our cave family going through some changes, though, the story, while lively, has a distinctly mid-century sit-com vibe, and not just because that Partridge Family anthem, “I Think I Love You”, is on repeat… Read More »

Tagged With: bananas, cave people, punch monkey, sequel, wolf spider

SOUL

December 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

SOUL

Pixar’s SOUL is as slyly unpredictable as it is playfully brilliant. Nothing less than a deconstruction of what life means, it is both raucous and Zen as it tells the story of a jazz musician who is not ready for the Great Beyond, thereby becoming a perfect koan, and possibly the best movie of the… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, jazz, paradigm shift, souls, spark

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

October 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Considering it only lasted two seasons in its initial run back in the 1960s, the television version of Charles Addam’s gruesomely enchanting New Yorker cartoon, The Addams Family, has become a powerful pop culture touchstone. It’s a favor that the current animated version amply repays, rife as it is with pop and political references. And… Read More »

Tagged With: marsh, mazurka, smokey eye, spooky, television

ABOMINABLE

September 29, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ABOMINABLE

ABOMINABLE is a sweet, if unremarkable, movie. With a plot that offers little in the way of novelty and characters who are as familiar to fans of contemporary animated films aimed at kiddies as Harlequin was to fans of the commedia dell’arte, it does boast some fine animation and a mythical creature that is undeniably… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, China, Himalayas, yeti

ALADDIN

May 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ALADDIN

The live-action version of ALADDIN does many things, including blurring the line between animation and live-action, not unlike the once and future AVATAR. It is more animation than live action and perhaps at some point there should be specific designation for cinematic efforts of this kind. But I digress. Most of what makes the film… Read More »

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

February 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

Ah, the timeless tale of a boy and his dragon.  As recounted in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON I and II, it was magical. Even more magical is that the final part of the trilogy, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD is the equal of the first two without being a repeat of either installment.

Tagged With: book to screen, flaming sword, hobgobbler, Light Fury, Night Fury, sequel. dragons

WELCOME TO MARWEN

December 25, 2018 By Leave a Comment

WELCOME TO MARWEN

There is little that tugs more insistently at my heartstrings, cinematically at least, than a film that genuinely means well and falls short. And so it is with WELCOME TO MARWEN, a showcase of CGI and of Steve Carrell’s dramatic chops, but of little else. The story is based on the life of Mark Hogencamp,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, brain damage, fantasy world, hate crime

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

December 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

Just when you thought the Spiderman franchise might have finally run its course of endless reboots comes SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, a film that that reinvigorates both animation and the super-hero origin story. Told in a wry, raucous style, it dares to explore complicated themes of family ties and personal responsibility while slyly poking fun… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, multiverse, origin story

EARLY MAN

February 16, 2018 By Leave a Comment

EARLY MAN

Click here for the KMR interview with director/co-writer Nick Park. The filmmakers at Aardman have carved out for their studio a specific niche among animated films.  Theirs is a humor that is sly, unafraid of a pun, and equally fearless in its embrace of the silly for the sake of silliness.  It is a universe… Read More »

Tagged With: asteroid, Bronze Age, bronze ore, football, imperialism, mammoth, soccer, Stone Age

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