It’s a dystopian future where dogs have been quarantined on a remote island. It features a Japanese cast speaking their native langue. Bill Murray and Jeff Goldblum play dogs. It’s stop motion. It features all the hipster tones/music you’d expect: It must be time for another original film from Wes Anderson. Isle of Dogsis written
Now we’re playing Hide and Seek. The clock’s ticking. The loser dies. If the first issue of Strangers in Paradise XXV felt like it was starting in the middle of the action, the full-page picture on the first page of issue #2 looks like the moment just before the climactic (and tragic) scene. We find
Jada: That was the fastest two hour movie I’ve ever watched. Elizabeth: I’m exhausted! Jada: I feel like I just got done with a Zumba class. Elizabeth: I’m worn out but really peaceful and happy. Jada: I almost thought the movie wasn’t going to end where it ended, I thought there was more and I’m
The Death of Stalin is a political satire comedy film directed and co-written by Armando Iannucci, the creator of Veep for HBO. Based on the French graphic novel La mort de Staline, the film is a hilarious look into power struggles following the death of Joseph Stalin. It’s fantastically acted, with quick witty dialogue, and
Love, Simon is the wonderful movie based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, and directed by Greg Berlanti: most notable as the guy that created the Arrowverse on The CW. Here he has the task of directing a teen romantic comedy with a gay protagonist as he deals with coming
Well, could it be “third times the charm” for the Tomb Raider franchise? It’s the third film in the series and filmmakers have added academy award winner Alicia Vikander as the lead in 2018’s Tomb Raider. Not unlike the last few games in their series, Lara Croft has been given the big-screen make over. Gone are
For the third issue in a row we’ve only had to wait two weeks for the next installment, which on the one hand is awesome because we’ve had a ton of dangling plot lines and they’re getting (sort of) resolved lightning fast. But on the other hand I am not going to be a pleasant
“…I don’t think anyone knows how to turn the wonder-engine off.” The second book of The Clocktaur War series finds the characters right where we left them at the end of Book 1: still trying to find the source of the monstrous clocktaurs that have been rampaging across the countryside. The little team consisting of
There seems to be a lack of hope in these recent dark times, as more drama piles on us day to day: from crazy tweeting, a lack of human compassion and the #MeToo movement putting a face on bad behavior from all over. To say there is an absence of hope is putting it mildly.