Category: Fantasy
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: 8-Bits Forward, 8-Bits Back
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic I know it’s a bit silly for a 25-year-old father-of-none to be anticipating The Super Mario Galaxy Movie for as long as I have been, but what can I say? I’m a kid at heart, and that includes at the cinema. With the introduction of Rosalina, I would be at the theater opening weekend whether the product was…
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Arco: A Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Arco (2025) Ugo Bienvenu After my depressing trip to Dallas earlier today for The Voice of Hind Rajab, I needed a cinematic pick-me-up, and Arco with Liz and Gabe was the perfect prescription. I’d had this movie on my watchlist since like September, so it was great to finally see it and check off the last of the Best Animated Feature nominees for this year. I’m glad to report…
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Avatar: Fire and Ash: A Dazzling Retread
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) James Cameron Story time! I was originally going to go to my local Regal to see Avatar: Fire and Ash, but Reddit convinced me to see it in IMAX 3D. Then I changed my showtime from 6:15 to 2:00 because I got out of school early, only to have the movie start, get one minute in, and then have the screen malfunction…
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Eternity: The Good Place Plays This Movie
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Eternity (2025) David Freyne My Thanksgiving Break has become surprisingly full with travel and weddings and dinners, so I’m having to puzzle together all of these movies I want to see as well. Eternity was one that I was plenty interested but Morgan wasn’t, so today—when Morgan’s out shopping in Fredericksburg—was the perfect day to go see it. Predictably, it crushed. What interested me most about Eternity when I first heard…
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Wicked: For Good: Changes and Being Changed
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Wicked: For Good (2025) Jon M. Chu After the longest year of my musical theater-loving life, it was finally time to settle in for Wicked: For Good and have my mind blown (hopefully). Knowing the musical very well already, I knew to expect a darker narrative, less humor, and fewer iconic songs, and while all of those things were present, the finale to one of the most anticipated…
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Frankenstein (2025): It’s Alive (Cinema, That Is)! ALIVE!
Frankenstein (2025) Guillermo del Toro I had been itching to watch Frankenstein for the last two weeks, but Morgan’s nursing schedule and the plethora of theater releases I needed to attend to kept us from it until tonight. I read Frankenstein in high school and enjoyed it, but I don’t think it (nor my viewing of Young Frankenstein in October) prepared me for how much I would love this. What stood out earliest, of course, were the…
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In Your Dreams: A Netflix Nightmare
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. In Your Dreams (2025) Alex Woo I like to get ahead of the game when it comes to Oscar-nominated movies, so I’ve been checking Variety’s list of predictions and gave In Your Dreams, one of their Best Animated Feature predictions, a go. I shouldn’t have. Netflix has always been hit-or-miss on their original films, and while they usually fare well with acquiring and then distributing animated films—think KPop Demon…
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Sketch: Horror for Kids…and It Works!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Sketch (2024) Seth Worley Sketch was the first film of my whiplash-inducing double feature today, paired quite impeccably with Weapons. I’m sitting in the theater prior to Weapons right now writing this review, actually! My primary motivation to see Sketch was to hear Cody Fry’s first theatrical score, and while it was certainly one of the good qualities of this film, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t the only good one.…
