The Lego Ninjago Movie: A Samurai Tale That’s Fun For The Family

I wasn’t aware of the popularity that is Lego Ninjago; not only is it a hit on toy shelves but on the small screen as well. Memories of the pilot premiering on Cartoon Network in 2011 are surprisingly engraved in my head.

Top 10 Highly Anticipated Films of the Fall/Winter

Summer is over and now comes the cold season (or as cold as it gets depending where you live).along with the next set of blockbusters and award contenders. Everyone has their picks but these are the movies that I'm excited to see. 

It: Losers Shine a Light in This Frightening and Dark Story

Left to right: Mike (Chosen Jacobs), Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer), Bill (Jaeden Lieberher), Stan (Wyatt Oleff)
Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård),
Richie (Finn Wolfhard), Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Beverly (Sophia Lillis)

“Horror movies do not love death, as some have suggested; they love life. They do not celebrate deformity, but by dwelling on deformity they sing of health and energy. By showing us the miseries of the damned they help us rediscover the smaller joys of our own lives” 

Rock Dog Hits All the Wrong Notes

I didn’t think this was possible but it happened. It finally happened. I saw a movie, an animated kids movie mind you that was worse than The Emoji Movie.

Jordan Peele Proves Talent Behind the Camera in Get Out

Starting his career in the skit show MAD, making a name for himself with Keegan-Micheal Key as the comedic duo Key and Peele to doing voice work in Storks and Captain Underpants, Jordan Peele makes his feature debut both writing and directing a horror film of a different kind.

Mune Makes Up With Mesmerizing Vibrancy

Delivering work like Ernest and Celestine, The Secret of Kells and TV show Totally Spies! (fond memories of watching it on Cartoon Network) my admiration for French animation continues with Mune, le gardien de la lune or better known in English, Mune: Guardian of the Moon. 

Detroit: An Important Story but Shaky in Execution

John Boyega as Delvin Dismukes in Detroit.

If Dunkirk showed the best of humanity in the worst of times, Detroit explores how low the level of inhumanity can get. From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), brings us of one of the worst riots in U.S. history in Detroit.  Racial tensions explode both figuratively and literally with buildings burning in blazes, looters running left and right, law enforcement trying to maintain the peace and racists seeing an opportunity to take matters into their own hands.