ER Rewatch: S02E01 Welcome Back Carter!

E.R. "Going Home"

Parker Lewis can't lose S1 E1 - 1990

Christmas Bloody Christmas will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 7 via RLJE Films. The 2022 Christmas slasher is streaming exclusively on Shudder.

Joe Begos (VFW, Bliss) writes and directs. Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray, Dora Madison, Jeremy Gardner, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Abraham Benrubi, Graham Skipper, and Kansas Bowling star star.

No special features are listed.

It’s Christmas Eve and Tori is spending it her preferred way, drinking with her friend Robbie at the local dive bar. Little do they know that the robot Santa from the local toy store has gone haywire, cutting a bloody path through their small town, and is coming straight for the two of them. As everyone around her fall's victim to Santa’s axe, Tori must fight to make it through a night of pure terror.

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Christmas Bloody Christmas

directed by Joe Begos, 2022

Time 11-Dec-2022 10:20 Day Sunday Where Cineworld - Rushden Lakes Screen 4 Seat G7 Price £4.60

Strange World

Movies watched in 2023

Strange World (2022, USA)

Director: Don Hall (co-directed by Qui Nguyen)

Writer: Qui Nguyen

Mini-review:

I'm honestly surprised this movie flopped so hard. Like, it's not a masterpiece by any means, but it's a pretty fun old-school family adventure movie, which is clearly what they were hoping to achieve. The animation is great, the locations are really pretty and colorful, and the creature designs are really cool, too. Neither the story nor the message are groundbreaking, but they are well told enough, so it's not boring. There's also the whole thing about including the first openly gay main character in a Disney movie, and I have to say it's well handled too. It's done in a very obvious way so that there's no doubt about it, but it's not a major part of the plot or anything like that, it's just another of the character's traits. So yeah, this movie it's pretty okay, even if it won't blow your mind.

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ER Rewatch: S02E07 Hell and High Water

Remember That Show? Ep. 4: Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Adam and Will synchronize swatches for a joyous discussion of the 1990 FOX teen sitcom, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and revel in the wackiness of this early 90’s time capsule. Plus, they settle the decades long debate as to whether Parker Lewis is just a rip-off of Ferris Bueller.

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Strange World (2022) Review

Strange World (2022) Review

The legendary Clade’s family are about to discover that maybe you just cannot change what you are meant to do, getting to know each other in a very different world. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)

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Strange World (2022, dir. Don Hall) - review by Rookie-Critic

Strange World, Disney's newest offering, has a few pitfalls, but also does a lot of things right. What I will applaud it for is a representation of a strained parent/child relationship that not only spans generations, but also plays out in a way where the bad parent doesn't just get to be excused from their bad behavior and cruelty just because "they're the adult and know what's best." The amount of animated movies where this is not the case is absolutely baffling to me, and even other very recent Disney movies fall into this pattern and it makes an otherwise incredibly well made animated feature really hard to enjoy. Parents or adult authority figures don't just get a pass for doing something very wrong, and Strange World seems to be the first animated film in a long time that understands this concept. Another wrong that Disney has attempted to right with Strange World is the problem of the "Disney face." You probably know what I'm referring to; a lot of Disney's characters, specifically the feminine-presenting ones, look the same. Same eyes, same face shape, same nose; just swap out hair and add other surface features like blush or freckles and boom. They're all just palette swaps of each other, but Strange World has an incredibly diverse cast of characters that actually look and feel different from each other. It was definitely refreshing not to see an ocean of the same character model throughout the entire movie. Also, this one isn't much of a surprise, the film is gorgeous, and it creates a world that is wholly unique so that the Disney style of animation gets to feel expansive instead of tired.

The negatives of the film are in the story. Sometimes it feels like Disney phones it in and rushes a script. All of these characters seem so vibrant and interesting, but we really only get to learn about 3 of them. The rest feel like small players that mainly exist to support our generational trio of protagonists. The only other character that gets shown even remotely the same level of attention as our main trio is the "cute sidekick" character, Splat, who is indeed very cute, but that is a Disney archetype that is growing a little tiresome to me. Also, while I love the film's overall messaging, I'm not entirely sure its analogies to real world issues hold together very well. I can't go into it too much without venturing towards spoilers, but the film, in my opinion, doesn't present a feasible solution to its own problem. Disney has definitely made better movies, but it has also made much, much worse. Strange World manages to stand on its own as a good animated film and as a benchmark for what Disney is capable of in terms of diversity in animation.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters.