Category: Family
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The Cat in the Hat (2026): There’s More Than One Way to Write a Cat
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Cat in the Hat (2026) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni After a few days at home to rest (and to, you know, go to my day job), I was back at the theater tonight to take in another string of new releases! Did I feel a little silly going into my opening night showing of The Cat in the Hat in my local Regal’s biggest auditorium…
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Forgotten Island: Can I Get a Wapoosh?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Forgotten Island (2026) Januel Mercado, Joel Crawford Was back-to-back press screenings in Dallas on school nights the best idea I’ve ever had? Definitely not. But did I want to see Forgotten Island really bad and couldn’t pass up the opportunity? For sure! With Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado attached to direct (after the success of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), Forgotten Island was sure to…
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Camp Rock 3: She’s Really (Not) Good!
Camp Rock 3 (2026) Veronica Rodriguez I had a long day at school today—not bad, just long. I got there at 6:45am and didn’t leave until 5:00pm, after my students’ first choir rehearsal of the year. I got home and was absolutely spent. All I wanted to do was sit, eat, and turn my brain off, and Camp Rock 3—which I had been meaning to watch—appeared as if it would fit…
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Coyote vs. Acme: In Defense of Trying and Failing and Trying Again
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Coyote vs. Acme (2026) Dave Green It’s here! It’s finally here! I understand I’ve said this about a couple movies in the past, but it applies most truly here: I have been waiting for Coyote vs. Acme for years. Since it began filming back in 2022, I’ve followed this film’s tough journey from being shelved by Warner Brothers to being freed by a mob of Looney Tunes lovers…
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The Magic Faraway Tree: The English Have Such Active Imaginations!
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Ben Gregor My weekend of kind of average movies continues! I didn’t really vibe with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma yesterday, and then I chased that with the lesser Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Seeing Tony on Thursday feels like a distant memory, so I was hoping to right the ship with The Magic Faraway Tree today. I’m a big Andrew Garfield fan, so even if the movie ended…
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Cookie Queens: Who Run the World? Girls!
Cookie Queens (2026) Alysa Nahmias Having already seen One Night Only earlier in the week, I wasn’t anticipating heading to the theater this weekend, but Instagram decided to throw an incoming banger onto my feed. I drove to the west side of Fort Worth at 11:00am for the Girl Scout Cookies documentary (of course today was the one day that I was asked by a Cinemark employee which movie I was seeing,…
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Moana (2026): A Good Time, But How Far Will This Go?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Moana (2026) Thomas Kail At this point, it seems like Disney is going to release a live-action remake every year until I die, so I’ve done my best to accept that and develop what I think is a nuanced view of Disney’s business model. We’re definitely trapped in a vicious cycle here, where the live-action remakes fund the original movies—precisely why we need the remakes—and though…
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Minions & Monsters: An Ode to Cinema, Good and Bad
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Minions & Monsters (2026) Pierre Coffin When Despicable Me 4 was about to come out two years ago, I rewatched all of the Despicable Me movies and unfortunately realized that the franchise has only gotten worse over the years. In my opinion, Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 are the only good movies in the larger Despicable Me universe—once the girls got phased out and the minions phased in, the quality cratered. I’m really not a…
