Star Wars Celebration Chicago Recap: The Force is with this Fandom

If you follow me on social media, you may have noticed that I spent last weekend in Chicago for Star Wars Celebration. The five day convention encompassed everything Star Wars, including updates on Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge and the premieres of trailers for games like Jedi Fallen Order and the Vader Immortal VR, television shows like […]

Review: “Dumbo” (2019)

2.5 out of 5 stars. Out of all the Disney films, the story of “Dumbo” has the most room to grow. The 1941 animated classic clocks in at only 64 minutes long, and is the simple story of a baby circus elephant ridiculed for his large ears—which he had actually use to fly. The loving […]

Review: “Captain Marvel”

3.5 out of 5 stars. Warning: This review contains some plot details from “Captain Marvel.” In “Captain Marvel,” Carol Danvers is the hero of her own story. Despite being a mere month and a half away from “Avengers: Endgame,” “Captain Marvel” is the rare MCU film that stands on its own, and doesn’t have any […]

Review: “Mary Poppins Returns”

3.5 out of 5 stars. Walt Disney’s 1964 film “Mary Poppins” is hugely beloved and widely regarded as the studio’s greatest live-action movie. So despite the fact that author P.L. Travers wrote multiple stories about the magical nanny, it’s still a tall order for Disney to make a sequel to the classic film over 50 […]

Review: “Ralph Breaks The Internet”

3 out of 5 stars. The current state of technology and the internet—especially how so many people live their lives online through social media—is endless fodder for satire. The sequel to Disney’s 2012 animated hit “Wreck-It Ralph” trades in the video game nostalgia of its predecessor for a look at the internet as it is […]

Review: “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”

2.5 out of 5 stars. When you think of “The Nutcracker,” chances are all the things related to the famous ballet come to mind: beautiful dances and costumes, Tchaikovsky’s music, and of course the main characters, a young girl named Clara and a nutcracker prince. However, only a handful of those elements are present in […]

Review: “Christopher Robin”

3 out of 5 stars. Many of us have likely grown up on “Winnie the Pooh,” whether in the original stories by A.A. Milne or, more likely, the Disney animated films. There’s something wonderfully old-fashioned about them, a trait that the Walt Disney Studios and director Marc Forester combine with a heavy dose of reality […]

Review: “Ant-Man and the Wasp”

3.5 out of 5 stars. “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” the sequel to what is likely the most low-key of all the Marvel films, comes to theaters less than three months after the release of the huge and highly-anticipated “Avengers: Infinity War.” The latter film was high-stakes and emotionally draining, which is part of the reason […]

Review: “The Incredibles 2”

4 out of 5 stars. Pixar’s “The Incredibles” was released 14 years ago. Think about that. Fourteen years. The long-awaited sequel to the animated film that follows a family of superheroes is finally in theaters, and it picks up at the exact moment that its predecessor left off, the familiar characters springing into action as […]

Review: “Solo: A Star Wars Story”

3.5 out of 5 stars. “Solo: A Star Wars Story” isn’t the Star Wars movie we needed. It isn’t even the Star Wars movie that many people wanted. Behind-the-scenes troubles arose halfway through production, causing a good deal of apprehension as to how the final product would turn out, while even many die-hard fans seemed […]