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Movie Review: “Pinocchio”
Wandering the streets of a small village, Jiminy Cricket (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), sees a light on in a shop. He finds a hole to crawl into and watches as the owner of the shop puts the finishing touches on his latest creation. Geppetto (Tom Hanks) makes gadgets for sale and some that will never be sold,…
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Disney+ Day 2022 Official Trailer
September 8, 2022, one day before my birthday, is Disney+ Day. It should come as no surprise to you, my lone reader, that I am a Disney FANatic and, in my younger days, a wanna be Imagineer. I signed up for Disney+ before it was even activated and will never leave. Here is the official…
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Movie Review: “Better Nate Than Ever”
Nate (Rueby Wood) has a dream: To be a huge Broadway star! Unfortunately, he has to survive 7th grade (where he is bullied) first, and it would be nice if he could land a part in the school play. Well…..he lands the part: That of a tree. Nate supposes that his career is ending at…
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Thor: Three Movie Marathon
Gearing up for “Thor: Love and Thunder” on Disney+, Sept 8, 2022, we decided we did not remember the previous Thor movies well enuf to watch the latest. Sooooooo…..we re-watched all three previous Thor outings. Here goes…… Thor (2011) Go here to see my original review and to watch the trailer. With the 2022 viewing:…
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Movie Review: “Lightyear”
Space Rangers Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) wake up from stasis to land their spacecraft on a planet far far from home. Trying to get off that planet, the spaceship crashes, stranding Buzz and Alisha and the hundreds of sleeping scientists who now must all work together to fix the spaceship…
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Movie Review: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
Since he unlocked the multiverse in Spider-Man, Doctor Strange has been having a strange dream. In this dream, he and some unknown young woman are trying to reach a book, but they cannot beat the monster protecting that book, and…. Strange dies. Then he wakes up!! Whew…..it was just a dream. Or was it? One…
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Movie Review: “West Side Story”
An unnessary remake of the 1957 classic musical. Tony (Ansel Elgort) meets, and falls madly in love with, Maria (Rachel Zegler). The only problem is: They come from warring sides: The white “gringos” vs the Puerto Ricans in 1950’s New York City. And Tony and Maria’s love only increases the hatred, so much so, that….…
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Movie Review: “Turning Red”
Meilin “Mei” Lee (Rosalie Chaing) just turned 13. Mei is an independent “woman” (it says she is an adult on the mass transit card) not afraid to speak up for what she believes in and do what she wants to do. Except…..her mother, Ming (Sandra Oh), will not let her go to the upcoming 4*Town…
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Movie Review: “Free Guy”
Software geeks, Millie (Jodie Comer) and Keys (Joe Keery), developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based game called “Life Itself”. The object of that game was to watch the people in the game grow and learn from their experiences. It never made it to market. And, I have no idea how this happened….(I will watch it…