Tag: Pedro Pascal
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The Wild Robot review, animated children’s story about belonging
The Wild Robot, from DreamWorks Animation, tells a story of not belonging, finding your place in the world, and thinking for yourself. It’s a beautiful message that will resonate with children. It is rated PG and does have a few scary scenes.
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Drive-Away Dolls: totally inappropriate
Drive-Away Dolls is a raunchy, ridiculous road trip movie from director Ethan Coen. The name Coen doesn’t always inspire me to want to watch something, but this pulpy masterpiece features women in the lead roles so I felt compelled to take a look.
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The Last of Us, a review for the nongamers
Everybody knows The Last of Us is based on a video game. The first episode of the TV series based on that game aired on HBO Max this week. The question is, does the series look good enough to watch even if you aren’t a gamer (e.g., me)?
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Calls is a different kind of sci-fi mystery
Calls is a series of short episodes that are versions of phone calls. You never see anyone’s face, it’s all voice work and a visually engaging screensaver type representation of words, connections, and emotions. It’s streaming on Apple TV+.
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Wonder Woman 1984 Didn’t Make Me Sing with Joy
Wonder Woman 1984 was a terrific superhero blockbuster extravaganza. But it did not leave me bursting with enthusiasm the way the 2017 film did. I was so wound up by the earlier film I wrote 3 lengthy posts about how great it was. I won’t have that much to say this time.
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Review: The Mandalorian, season 1
The Mandalorian on Disney+ is part of the Star Wars universe. Many people wear the title Mandalorian. They are bounty hunters with a code that doesn’t allow them to ever remove their helmets.
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Are you looking forward to Wonder Woman 1984?
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are also probably the kind of person who has already watched the Wonder Woman 1984 trailers several times. Nevertheless, I am putting them here to show my enthusiasm and to keep the record straight.