Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
A Bug’s Life
{4/5} “You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up.” A Bug’s Life, released in 1998 Every year the ants harvest a bunch of food and leave it for the grasshoppers, who come and eat it and then leave. But this year Flik accidentally knocks over the pile of food […]
Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
{2/5} “Spy Kids have always been able to beat the bad guys because adults over-think things. But to a kid, everything is possible.” Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, released in 2011 Wilbur Wilson has a reality show where he hunts for spies. But he doesn’t know his own wife was a […]
The Secret World of Arietty
{4/5} “You forgot something.” The Secret World of Arietty, released in 2010 Arietty is 14 and goes with her father on her first borrowing expedition. They go into the area of the house where the humans live. The humans are giants compared to them. They grab a sugar cube in the kitchen, but then drop […]
Godzilla Minus One
{5/5} “Well, there goes my prized white rice.” Godzilla Minus One, released in 2023 Koichi was a kamikaze pilot who didn’t want to die. When Godzilla comes to the island Koichi is on, he fails to shoot him with his plane. Koichi goes home after the war, but it’s all destroyed. He meets a woman […]
Mars Express
{4.5/5} “Your head never used to hover like that.” Mars Express, released in 2023 When Aline Ruby gets to Mars with the cybercriminal Roberta Williams, they find there’s no warrant for her arrest. Now she’s looking for two students who have gone missing after their robot was jailbroken. When she gets to the location of […]
Match Me If You Can
{4.5/5} “Everything in my life has told me that’s not enough. That I’m not enough. But I guess I never really believed it before.” Match Me If You Can, released in 2023 Kip is a software engineer, and occasionally spends her evenings pretending to be chased by zombies. One evening she has to spend her […]
Gattaca
{5/5} “If you’re going to pretend like you don’t care, don’t look up.” Gattaca, released in 1997 Vincent is on track to go into space — to Titan. But he does a lot of extra things every day that people don’t know about to ensure that happens. His DNA is genetically inferior, so he makes […]
Minority Report
{5/5} “Where’s my minority report?” Minority Report, released in 2002 John Anderton is chief of the Precog crime unit in Washington DC. The precogs are three people with an unusual talent — they can see murders in the future. Now they say that John himself will commit a murder — he will shoot a man […]
Damsel
{4/5} “For generations it has been our task, our duty, to protect our people. The price is dear, but so too the reward.” Damsel, released in 2024 Elodie’s kingdom has fallen on hard times and her father has made a deal which relies on her marrying a prince she’s never met. When they arrive at […]
The Fugitive
{5/5} “What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area.” The Fugitive, released in 1993 When Dr. Richard Kimble is convicted of the murder of his wife and sent to jail, the bus he’s […]