Arthur the King: The term ‘sport’ has been under stated in a very small way. Adventure racing is by far the most extreme, the most demanding and the most endurance requiring sport in the world. Even an Iron Man, which is a combination of running, swimming and biking, becomes child’s play compared to this activity. […]
The approach that “My Penguin Friend” takes, which is evidently rather old-fashioned, also possesses a radical quality. It is an honest, patriotic children’s story – no sarcasm, no shameless self-referentiality, no arrogant insertions of catchy songs – just a soft and well-produced film that fully justifies the tears it is bound to provoke among the
When it comes to characters, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is one of the most pleasant painted story books human animation can offer and, hopefully, will not lose to other media. Paper & Soul is directed and co-written by French filmmaker Benoît Chieux (with writing partner Alain Gagnol), and produced in Koproduktion with
The children’s imagination gave birth to the idea of imaginary friends. With just an empty room and some random odds and ends, children can dream up the most outlandish adventures. And every child at that age has an imaginary friend to satisfy his or her needs. In his animated drama ‘The Imaginary’, Yoshiyuki Momose explores
Spaceman: When was the next time you last appreciated the beautiful enumeration of the synonyms of ‘baffled’? There are quite a few of those in English considering the language’s possible permutations and combinations: puzzled, nonplussed, discombobulated, flummoxed, stumped, fogged, wildered, buffaloed. They are scrumptious, charming, dense with consonants and productive of a singular emotion: one
Since “Stranger Things” is plodding towards its last season which appears very far off such that the kids will soon be looking causes for retirement, it would be easy to begin hunting for the new one’s releases to plug the void. Pure strain 80s nostalgia for those cheesy family movies, be it a king adaptation
“Once upon a time, there was a chivalric romance in which the heroic knight was able to rescue a princess in peril,” begins a quote from a woman’s voice without revealing the title, ‘Damsel.’ “This is not one of them.” This sappy story of a hot male actor may polarize critics but, thank God, I
At the very onset of Descendants: The Rise of Red, we see a royal proclamation which states that the elite boarding school for Walt Disney’s classic characters would now be accepting a new class of VKs – Villain’s Kids. More familiar as the children of the Disney movies’ evil villains. Admission letters were or rather
“Madame Web” is not, despite its unusually odd spot on calendars (February) or cumbrous trailer, a complete embarrassment. It’s a superhero origin story with low demands whose centre is Dakota Johnson in a very charming performance. But the feature film which is the first for the veteran Ll Suddath J. Clarkson who has spent most
Kristen Stewart’s character, gym manager Lou, is first seen with her hand in a toilet full of human excreta. There is large proportion of time over the next two hours that she will end up cleaning worse than that in “Love Lies Bleeding,” directed by Rose Glass in a physically aggressive erotic love triangle but
