Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (TV-G)
Stephanie Beatriz, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
I know, I know, do you really need to hear the Encanto songs again? Yes! This filmed concert of the songs of Encanto as presented at the Hollywood Bowl is a delightful celebration featuring the original vocal talents from the Continue reading “At the Sofaplex 23/01/26”
A teen uses location services, street cams and Colombian Taskrabbit to search for her mother in Missing, a lightweight thriller.
June (Storm Reid), 18, is on eyeroll-whatever terms with her mother, Grace (Nia Long), as Grace heads from their L.A.-area home to vacation in Colombia with her boyfriend Continue reading “Missing (PG-13)”
Plane (R)
Plane go crash in Plane — a movie that will never be criticized for being too complex.
Right from the jump, this movie won me over by letting Gerard Butler, who plays Trailblazer Airline pilot Brodie Torrance (I mean, HA! with that name), just be Scottish and not Continue reading “Plane (R)”
Strange World (PG)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid.
This Disney animated feature introduces us to Searcher Clade (voice of Gyllenhaal), who, when he was a kid, was forced, like it or not, to join his famous father, Jaeger Clade (voice of Quaid), on his explorations to find a path beyond the Continue reading “At the Sofaplex 23/01/12”
A terrifying giant doll becomes even more terrifying thanks to some A.I. programming in M3gan, a lively thriller coming in at a brisk hour and 42 minutes.
Gemma (Allison Williams) is a toy designer who becomes the guardian for her tween-ish-aged niece Cady (Violet McGraw) after Gemma’s sister and brother-in-law Continue reading “M3gan (PG-13)”
The Fabelmans (PG-13)
Steven Spielberg directs and co-writes this movie adaptation of what appears to be his childhood in The Fabelmans, a very sweet story of a boy and his camera.
Look, I’m going to use words like “sweet” and “cute” and I mean all of them sincerely even Continue reading “The Fabelmans (PG-13)”
2022 offered sweet stories, beautiful animation and some excellent stupidity
Whether you define a great movie as an artistic achievement or as a movie so gleefully goofy that you cry from laughter, there were great movies in 2022.
Saying this almost feels counter-intuitive with all the stories about movies — Continue reading “Great movies for everyone”
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-13)
James Cameron takes us on a three-hour-and-change trip back to the lush moon Pandora in the 13-years-in-the-making sequel Avatar: The Way of Water.
After some Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) narration flipping us through the years since the first movie (when Sully, a human Marine, Continue reading “Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-13)”
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (R)
Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell.
In this adaptation of a book that I feel like I should have read but probably won’t ever, dissatisfied Lady Chatterley, a.k.a. Connie Reid (Corrin), starts an affair with Oliver (O’Connell) the groundskeeper at her husband’s, Lord Clifford Chatterley (Matthew Duckett), big Continue reading “At the Sofaplex 22/12/15”
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG)
The tale of the wooden puppet gets the Pan’s Labyrinth-but-animated treatment in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, a beautiful-looking weird-in-its-own-way adaptation.
All Pinocchios are weird, is my theory on this IP. In the league of cautionary fairy tales, this one seems to lean the hardest on Continue reading “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG)”
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