‘How To Train Your Dragon’ 3 Illustrates The Power Of Prioritizing Marriage Over Friends
This family film underscores a type of love that doesn’t die after stepping aside. Instead, mundane mystery that it is, friendship becomes fulfilled and glorified when it makes way for life.
Its Boring Attack On Male Heroism Is Killing ‘Lego Movie 2’
Audiences tend to like the hero’s journey, not moviemakers who bludgeon audiences over the heads with morals and forced progressivism.
Revisiting ‘Be A Clown’ From ‘Batman: The Animated Series’
The Joker turns assassin in an episode about fathers and sons — real, imagined, and lost.
Revisiting ‘The Forgotten’ From ‘Batman: The Animated Series’
In a flawed episode, Batman does not arrive until the final act. The wait is worth it, even if parts of the plot are hackneyed and overdone.
Revisiting ‘Batman, The Animated Series’: ‘P.O.V.’
Officer Renee Montoya, a character created for the series, gets her true introduction in an episode without a super-villain.
Revisiting ‘Batman: The Animated Series’: ‘Pretty Poison’
The introduction of Poison Ivy reveals more about Bruce Wayne – and the ambitions of the series.
Netflix’s ‘Watership Down’ Miniseries Is Worth Watching, Even For Kids
‘Watership Down’ is both a deeply, fantastically imagined mythology, and an epic adventure story full of thrills and hair-breadth escapes whose appeal to all ages will never stale.
Revisiting Batman The Animated Series: ‘Nothing to Fear’
The vengeful Scarecrow attacks Batman’s psyche, revealing daddy issues.
Revisiting Batman The Animated Series: ‘Christmas With The Joker’
After throwing the audience a curve with Man-Bat in the series pilot, the creative team turns to the best-known member of Batman’s rogues gallery.
How Political Correctness Has Ruined Disney’s Most Recent Princess Movies
Instead of telling stories and developing compelling characters, children’s movies today prefer to promote boring feminist and anti-family propaganda.
What Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ Gets So Wrong About Planned Parenthood And Teen Sex
I’m a former sex educator trained by Planned Parenthood, so I know the show’s portrayal of them as a clinic that helps adolescents and families is way off the mark.
Ten Years Later, ‘WALL-E’ Has Only Become More Insightful
Most of the films nominated for Best Picture that year justly disappeared down the memory hole, while ‘WALL-E’ remains as vibrant and striking as ever.
‘The Incredibles 2’ Is A Story About Triumphing Over Adversity Rather Than Blaming It For Your Failure
From a standard SJW storyline of female empowerment and male incompetence, the film diverges into a much more interesting, universal, and realistic set of conclusions.
‘Incredibles 2’ Leaves Good Storytelling Behind For A Politically Correct Narrative
Not only does the movie get its themes confused when it comes to the villain, its plot is an embarrassment.
How ‘Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay’ Turns The Antihero Upside Down
This little superhero film is a textbook in MacGuffin. It even has an extra featurette discussing the nature of MacGuffins.
You’ll Like ‘Isle Of Dogs’ No Matter How Old You Are
These animated dogs will become your best friends.
Mike Judge’s ‘Tales From The Tour Bus’ Ruminates On America’s Fascination With Celebrity
‘Tales from the Tour Bus’ is an animated series Mike Judge has produced for Cinemax, about the stars of country music from the ‘50s onward.
‘Cars 3’ Isn’t Woke—It’s Conservative
I most enjoyed that Hollywood’s nod to girl power in ‘Cars 3’ represented reality, not Lightning McQueen being woke. Well, as much as anthropomorphic cars live in reality.
‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ Tries To Be The ‘Force Awakens’ Of Its Franchise
BioWare had to find a way to tell a new story that felt ‘Mass Effect’ without being about the main characters we all fell in love with.
Why ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Deserves An Oscar
The boy Kubo is grieving—not in psychological stages, but in song, threnody. Kubo must undertake a spiritual journey, risking his sanity to learn how to live like a human being and poet.
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