The Goods: Film Reviews
Filling the tiniest of cracks of Frozen lore: What happened in the time between “Let It Go” and Anna/Kristoff bumping into Olaf in Frozen? What caused him to latch onto the notion of summer and warm hugs? Did he try to get a nose before Anna/Kristoff gave him a carrot?
It’s Ray Harryhausen’s last hurrah, featuring one of the coolest looking monsters ever (Medusa) and about a dozen other nifty effects. Big production values, dramatic score, epic adventure. It’s a slam dunk, right?
We recently decided to try and start watching documentaries on Sunday mornings (mostly while Mommy and Daddy take turns catching up on sleep).
Mighty Joe Young is Ray Harryhausen’s first proper movie, and goddamn does the stop motion animation look amazing. Big ol’ Joe the gorilla is expressive and nimble, interacting with props and sets and actors through lots of impressive camera trickery.
While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.
The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves
Believe it or not, last year was the first time I ever watched Nightmare from start to finish, and I was completely smitten.
Compared to the other Halloween specials I’ve watched this Spooktober with my daughters, Curious George’s is the one that is most clearly “for kids” with little concern for the attention span of the grown ups.
As someone who recently fell in love with a semi-coherent documentary of old film footage soundtracked to voiceover ramblings, you’d think this one in the same genre might also do it for me.
I don’t have too much experience with the modern-retro Mickey Mouse shorts from the late 2010s, so it was enlightening to see it in full bloom for a 20 minute special.