Back when I did my Cowboy Bebop rewatch, I wasn’t able to find the movie (also known as Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door) anywhere. I was recently able to track it down and was finally able to watch it. It’s probably been about twenty years since I’ve seen this movie and didn’t remember anything about it. Since we have the whole crew here, the movie takes place between episodes 22 and 23 of the series. Let’s see how it holds up.

The new Netflix documentary Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics interviews celebrities about their personal experiences with psychedelics and provides reenactments of their experiences. Some of the reenactments are animated while some are live action. There’s also a funny skit poking fun at 1980s after-school specials. Continue reading →

A few more Marvel movies have come out since I last did a review of them. I don’t have much to say about Ant-Man and the Wasp, other than it’s absolutely hilarious. Probably the funniest movie Marvel has ever done. It felt like I was laughing through pretty much every scene. Continue reading →

I didn’t care for the first Incredibles movie. Its repeated central message is “If everyone is special than no one is.” In the world of The Incredibles, some people are born naturally superior to others and equality is bad because it takes privilege away from those who were born into it. So I wasn’t looking forward to watching Incredibles 2. But I’ve got a kid, so I knew it was inevitable. I turned out being pleasantly surprised. Continue reading →

Not all movies stand the test of time. We’ve probably all experienced shock at rewatching a childhood favorite only to discover it’s not as good as we thought it was. I remembered The Transformers: The Movie (1986) as being sophisticated because Optimus Prime dies in it and tried to get my wife to watch it one time, only to be chagrined to find out it’s basically just one long toy commercial. Continue reading →

I didn’t like The Incredibles (2004) the first time I saw it. Now that a sequel is coming out, I thought I’d give the original movie another chance. Let’s see how that goes.

The Incredibles seems to be an homage to the Fantastic Four (1961-present), a comic in which someone with super strength, someone who can stretch, someone who can turn invisible and make force fields, and someone who can light themselves on fire and fly form a kind of found family. In The Incredibles, we have someone with super strength, someone who can stretch, someone who can turn invisible and make force fields, and someone who can run fast forming an actual family. Continue reading →

Since I’ve last posted about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve seen the latest four movies. They just keep pumping them out as fast as they can, don’t they? Spiderman: Homecoming (2017) was an average superhero movie targeted towards teenagers, but I liked several things about it: it gave us a sympathetic villain, they didn’t bother giving us Spiderman’s origin story (we’ve had enough of those), the bully wasn’t stereotypical, and the high school students appeared to be – well – high-school-aged (in so many Hollywood movies, they have adults play fifteen-year-olds and it just doesn’t work). It’s also funny in parts. Continue reading →