Review – Splish, Splash (“Avatar: The Way of Water”)

Bring a box lunch ’cause in this 3 hour and 12 minute movie you’ll be sitting on your butt for a loooong time! Yes, writer/director James Cameron is back after 13 years to give us a sequel to his visually stunning epic. Strap in, everyone, here we go! Life is finally good for Jake Sully…

Review – Geppetto Gets Splinters (“Pinocchio”)

There have been tons of remakes, reboots, and reimaginings of Pinocchio this decade alone! And I’m counting Guillermo DelToro’s stop-motion version coming out in December. Too bad Italian author Carlo Collodi isn’t around to collect on the residuals!   In yet another classic-Disney-animated-feature-turned-into-a-live-action-film from the House of Mouse (and there’s lots more to come, too!), we…

Review – The Eggman Is Back, CooCoo CaJoob (“Sonic 2”)

Even though 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog had mixed reviews and whipped up an internet firestorm for Sonic’s CGI looks (which got fixed), it still managed to make a whopping $185 mill at the box office. Can you say sequel? To recap, Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz), a blue, furry, lightning-fast teenage alien hedgehog got adopted…

Review – Not Creepy, Kooky, Or Spooky (“Addams Family 2”)

In yet another animated sequel that nobody wanted, here comes the CGI animated Addams Family again, but this time (like Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation), the family is going on vacation, because it was either that or time-travel, body-switching, or a long-lost relative. It’s all about Wednesday. Wednesday Addams (Chloë Grace Moretz), that is. This precocious,…