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
Mission Impossible 7: Rise of the Anti-Deus Ex Machina
ReviewJim SlotekMission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One, Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny, Cary Elwes, Vanessa Kirby, Action-adventure, Sequel
Wendell & Wild: Weird, Sure… But Not All That Wild
ReviewJim SlotekWendell & Wild, TIFF 2022, Henry Selick, Jordan Peele, Kegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Netflix, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, Animation