Hercules – animated film review
I never saw Hercules in the theaters back when it first came out. I think I was turned off by the character designs—something…
Category: Movie reviews
Reviews of films and direct-to-video works, including anime (excluding television series).
Tomorrowland – film review
Disney’s Tomorrowland is a lightweight romp through alternate dimensions and potential futures. The movie had its flaws (and they were not few), but…
Avengers – Age of Ultron – film review
I’m not a comic book fan. I have ample respect for the art form. It’s just a facet of fandom that never really…
The Librarian – Curse of the Judas Chalice – television film review
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice is the third film in The Librarian television film series on TNT. It follows Return to…
Maleficent – film review
Despite a torrent of steady buzz around the movie, I only recently sat down to watch Maleficent, Disney’s creative reimagining of the original…
Ernest & Celestine – animated film review
Ernest & Celestine caught my eye about a year ago when I saw a preview for the English version of it. I liked…
Dinosaur – animated film review
The 2000 Disney animated feature, Dinosaur, is a visual masterpiece. It tells the story of Aladar, an iguanadon raised by lemur-like mammals after…
Tales of the Night – animated film review
Tales of the Night is a compilation film from director and animator Michel Ocelot. The film is done in a silhouette style, where…
Song of the Sea – animated film review
I have been waiting to see Song of the Sea for over two years now, since I first watched The Secret of Kells.…
Home (2015 film) – animated film review
I saw the the trailer for Home months ago, and it gave me a completely different idea regarding the plot than what actually…
Welcome to the Space Show – animated film review
It is not every day that a dog begins having a conversation with you. It is not every day that aliens come to…
Space Battleship Yamato – film review
Many people grew up watching the animated Space Battleship Yamato (known as Star Blazers in the United States) on television before or after…
A Letter to Momo – animated film review
Japan has a knack for producing artistic creators who can weave an interesting story where there are no bad guys. Every now and…
Divergent – film review
Soon after Mad Max was released, the 80s were filled with innumerable knock-off dystopian movies, where somehow the infrastructures of society failed in…
Cinderella (2015) – film review
I was a little bit concerned when Disney announced they were doing a live-action adaptation of their 1950 animated Cinderella film. Adapting animation…
Home on the Range – animated film review
I have to admit: when I saw the trailers for Home on the Range, they didn’t excite me. Unfortunately, despite a couple high…
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast – animated film review
In Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast, the seventh release in the Disney Fairies series, Fawn—an animal fairy who sees only…
Fantasia 2000 – animated film review
Fantasia 2000 is the sequel to Fantasia, the animation and musical anthology film from 1940. As with the previous film, this one combines…
Fantasia – animated film review
Fantasia, though initially a financial flop, has become a classic example of the early work of Walt Disney Animation. It features seven vignettes…
The Crown and the Dragon: The Paladin Cycle – film review
The Crown and the Dragon: The Paladin Cycle is part of a new wave of media. It originally began as a Kickstarter project,…
Atlantis: The Lost Empire – animated film review
The first thing I thought when I saw an ad for Atlantis: The Lost Empire was, “Wow, this looks similar to Nadia: The…