Clank. Clank. Clank. The sounds of a Mandalorian hammer strike from somewhere offscreen. Even as the intro is still playing, we are immediately brought into the first episode of the third season of Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” which just aired earlier this month. Emily Swallow’s character, The Armorer, is pounding away at a piece of metal….
At the end of 2022, Disney released a new animated film called “Strange World,” directed by Jon Hall. Looking at the box office numbers one might say that the film bombed and wasn’t very good. “Strange World” isn’t actually that bad and provides what I think to be a new, and strange, alien world for…
Over the weekend, I went to Eugene, Oregon’s very own Art House over on 13th and Ferry to watch “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Without having yet seen a trailer for the movie, I was going in completely blind to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s 2022 film. Little did I know that I would be…
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” released in 2022, is another telling of Pinocchio’s classic story based on the book written by Carlo Collodi. However, this film gives us a much darker version of the story over what most of the modernized tellings give us. In Guillermo del Toro’s version, which is a PG-rated film for kids,…
“Troll” (2022) is a somewhat refreshing take on the “big monster wreaks havoc” genre of film. The director, Roar Uthaug, brings the audience on a journey of familial drama and growth, less explored Norwegian mythology, and plenty of pop culture references. Starring in the film is Ine Marie Wilmann as paleontologist Nora Tidemann, Kim Falck…
