Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is one of the most awkward films I have ever watched. And it was exactly as it should be. After all, few things are more awkward than the transition many girls face as they enter the season of when boys, bras, and changing bodies take center stage in…
Lovely. If I only could use one word to describe Blueback with Mia Wasikowska, Radha Mitchell, Ilsa Fogg, Clarence Ryan, Pedrea Jackson, and Eric Bana, it would be ‘lovely’. Between the natural beauty and humble confidence of it identity, Australian film has a way of transporting a viewer into a time and place that seems…
In an approach that feels like part National Geographic and part Finding Nemo, Katak, the Brave Beluga, (produced by 10e Ave), is an animated story of a young Beluga whale on the search for a long-lost family member ? and his independence ? amid environmental dangers, unknown health issues among the whales, and constant bullying…
I am a self-proclaimed enthusiast of all things ?A Christmas Carol.? I mean, one of my son?s names is Timothy ? a purposeful reference to Tiny Tim from the Charles Dickens classic story of how a seemingly ?unredeemable? Ebenezer Scrooge journeys through his past, present, and future in a ghostly attempt to change his ways….
I?ll come clean from the start: I had no idea who Charli XCX was before viewing Charli XCX: Alone Together. When she first started posting music on MySpace in 2008, I was married with my first child and had long abandoned that earlier social media platform with a full commitment to the ?newer? one called…
Time is a funny thing. Sometimes it inches by at a snail?s pace. Sometimes years seem to pass in the blink of an eye. Sometimes it feels like it has stopped and everything around you is moving in slow motion. In the case of Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes from Director Junta Yamaguchi and writer…
I?m a child of the 80?s. I grew up with Rainbow Brite and She-Ra and, of course, My Little Pony. I also really enjoy kids? movies in general, so I consider myself a pretty solid authority on the subject. So, when I say My Little Pony: The Next Generation (now available on Netflix) is top-notch,…
I grew up right outside Richmond, Virginia. Yes, the former capital of the Confederacy. A place with a deeply-rooted history and heritage of the Civil War. Where the Confederate flag is just as recognizable and prevalent as the American one. Where our public schools carry the names of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and…
Adventure into a far off place. A familiar foe who now has access to unlimited power. Emotional journeys into past trauma. Undying loyalty between a team who always is ready to help ? both those in trouble, and each other. No, it?s not Marvel?s newest movie or the latest action series from Netflix. It?s Paw…
There are more voices than I can count these days. And honestly, I?m sitting here thinking through this piece but heavily distracted by those voices. On the day I sent my son to his first day of kindergarten, parents concerned about mask requirements protested at the school board building – that is next to the…
