The Mario Movie and Misreading Movie Reviews
In April of 2023, Universal released The Super Mario Bros Movie. The film was made as a co-production between Nintendo, the titular video game’s franchise creators, and the Illumination animation
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All Things Movies With Mark McPherson
The Problem With Justin Roiland
In August 2020, Justin Roiland was arrested for domestic battery in California. The victim was an unnamed woman that Roiland had been dating at the time. He was released on
The Best Movies of 2022
2022 has been an excellent year for movies. There’s been a treasure trove of brilliant horror films, experimental animated films, and mind-blowing visual feasts. There was so much to choose
The Boys And The Importance of Media Literacy
Season 3 of The Boys has become an eye-opening experience for some. The superhero satire has grown far blunter and much more vicious in what it wants to skewer most.
The Academy’s Animation Problem
At the recent Academy Awards ceremony, Encanto, the musical fantasy by Disney, won the award for Best Animated Feature. The other nominations were Luca, a cute coming-of-age monster story from
The 10 Best Movies of 2021
2021 was the first mostly full year of movies returning to theaters since 2019. This meant there was a huge load of blockbusters shoved out at the same time, particularly
The Decay of Animated Apathy
Undeniably one of the most popular adult animated programs of the last decade is Rick & Morty. No other animated series has characters who appear in Super Bowl Ads. No
Box Office Doesn’t Matter
How does one judge a movie’s success? Everybody has their own metric for whether or not a film resonates with them. Maybe it features the most robust of editing, the
Red Flag Movies of Film Bros
Over on a certain social media website a certain user made a post there about red flag movies; movies where if you see someone cite them as their favorites or
Stupid Alien Wars
2021’s The Tomorrow War is a fairly generic and frankly forgettable alien invasion movie. Mysterious aliens ravage Earth in the future and humanity sends back soldiers to retrieve people from