The Wild Robot: Marooned Automaton Seeks Meaning in an Animated Film that's All Heart
ReviewJim SlotekAnimated films, Robot protagonists, Talking animals, AIs as surrogate mothers, The Wild Robot, Directed by Chris Sanders, Lupita Nyong’o, Mark Hamill, Ving Rhames, Catherine O’Hara
A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened (and Became an Instant Anti-Classic)
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekA Disturbance in the Force, A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak, Mark Hamill, Kevin Smith, Donny Osmond, Documentary, Weird Al Yankovic, Patton Oswalt
The Sandman: Neil Gaiman's Magnum Opus May Be the Most Faithful Comic Adaptation Ever
ReviewJim SlotekThe Sandman, Neil Gaiman, Tom Sturridge, The Endless, Netflix, TV series based on graphic novels, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Charles Dance, Gwendoline Christie, Patton Oswalt, Mark Hamill, Vivienne Acheampong, Mason Alexander Park
Child’s Play: Ultra-Gory Reboot of Horror Classic Is Stupidly Fun (Did We Mention Gory?)
Last Jedi: Bigger, better, but - thank the Force! - same as it ever was