It has been about 9 years since Pixar’s innovative Inside Out helped children and their familis understand the emotions that dwelt within them, sometimes controling their reactions to the external world. Like many fans of that film, I wondered if a sequel could live up to high quality of the original, and am glad to …
Suzume (2022)
Director/writerand his team of animators provide a mythological interpretation for the hundreds of earthquake tremors Japan suffers each year—and particularly for the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011. This beautifully animated adventure tale is a good one for …
The Inventor (2023)
This animated film about Lonardo da Vinci focuses upon the last few years of his life when King Francis I became his patron.
Elemental (2023)
Though of different elements, Ember and Wade fall in love & seek to save Elemental City together.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
Encanto (2021)
A family in Columbia with magical gifts is saved from losing everything by the daughter who feels an out sider because she has no gifts.
I Lost My Body (2019)
Twin narratives of a severed hand on a mysterious journey and a pizza deliverer on a quest. Click the title to read my review.
Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
There are 6 Spider Men to root for in this alternate universe tale, or better, 3 Spider Men, 2 Spider Women, & i Spider Pig.
The Grinch (2018)
This 2nd adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss story offers more details of how the Grinch got help stealing the Whosville presents & then had a change of heart .
Zootopia (2016)
In Zootopia where most animals live in harmony a small rabbit is given 2 days to fulfill her dream of becoming a policeman, despite what others think.