The Radical Child

I remember seeing a trailer for this film over a decade ago, and just the title alone made me giggle, so I decided to rent it on Amazon Prime, and while it does start a bit slow, the final half-hour largely made up for it, and one could consider it The Producers of our time, given the similar controversies surrounding the eponymous musical like Springtime for Hitler did in Mel Brooks' original film and its remake.

Australian animated film on Netflix about several indigenous animals in captivity that yearn to travel to and live in the country's outback. Had plenty of good moments and a few good twists or two, maybe one gross moment, but I still fairly enjoyed it.

Machines are due to reach the real-life human settlement of Zion in seventy-two hours, and it's up to Neo to battle the forces within and without the Matrix to stand a chance of survival. Largely on par with the first film, and despite having seen Reloaded in the theaters when it first premiered, I ironically haven't seen Revolutions at all, ironic given that the first Matrix sequel ends with a cliffhanger.

  

Netflix film that's largely the brainchild of three writers from The Simpsons and the director of The Simpsons Movie, though luckily it's devoid of the things that led me to stop watching the show ages ago (and I'm perfectly content without seeing the movie at all). It follows two mammalian creatures with donut holes, Op and Ed, their species known as the Flummels, in the time of Charles Darwin when he's en route to the Galápagos Islands, with a time travel flower leading them to contemporary Shanghai, where they discover their eventual extinction, and thus go on an adventure through time to try to prevent that from happening. Actually a pretty cute and funny film, with a good musical number as well, that I definitely wouldn't hesitate recommending to those who subscribe to its respective streaming service.

This movie looks absolutely freaking adorable.




Next to Dune: Part Two, another film I look forward to next year.

 

 

A girl named Sarah, portrayed by Sarah Connelly, wishes her infant brother Toby spirited away by goblins, and realizing she made a mistake, she traverses the eponymous maze to confront the Goblin King Jareth, portrayed by the late David Bowie, to prevent him from being turned into a goblin. Definitely a good swan song by Jim Henson, with some pretty good effects and music, not to mention plentiful quirky characters.

The Atreides family of the planet Caladan moves to the eponymous world, real name Arrakis, to take over spice operations from the Harkonnens, who are reluctant to comply. Definitely a gorgeous piece of cinema, and I hope it does well enough so that we get Part Two.

  

Disney's iconic adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story about woodcarver Geppetto being granted his wish of his puppet Pinocchio becoming animate and dealing with several unsavory characters on his journey to boyhood. There are some dangling threads such as what happens with Honest John and Gideon, who were probably my favorite characters, but it's definitely worth a watch.

Sort of overstays its welcome, but is definitely better than the original theatrical version, and gives more depth to the DC superheroes that weren't covered in prior films.

  

I watched this on Disney+ to sort of celebrate Brazilian Independence Day tomorrow, and it has a warning about ethnic stereotypes, though I don't think they were too severe, with four animated shorts interspersed among the live-action sequences of Disney animators visiting South America. Was generally enjoyable, and had the first appearance of Brazilian parrot José Carioca (with the j of his first name pronounced like a normal english j as in the Portuguese language), who is definitely a debonair character.