Showing posts with label 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020. Show all posts

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Every movie really is at least one person's favorite


ONE SECOND
Yimiaozhong

2020
Written and directed by Zhang Yimou (based on the novel by Geling Yan)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Princess Dragon Mom: The Early Years


PSYCHO GOREMAN
aka PG: Psycho Goreman

2020
Written and directed by Steven Kostanski

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Monday, December 28, 2020

Oops, Wonder Woman raped a dude


WONDER WOMAN 1984

2020
Directed by Patty Jenkins
Written by Geoff Johns, Dave Callaham, and Patty Jenkins

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Opie on Opie


HILLBILLY ELEGY

2020
Directed by Ron Howard
Written by Vanessa Taylor (based on the book by J.D. Vance)

Spoiler alert: man, this guy is doin' fine

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Moon blinked


OVER THE MOON

2020
Directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs
Written by Audrey Wells

Spoiler alert: moderate

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Oh the huge manatee


CHILDREN OF THE SEA
Kaiju no kodomo

2019 Japan/2020 USA
Directed by Ayumu Watanabe and Kenichi Konishi
Written by Hanasaki Kino (based on the comic by Daisuke Igarashi)

Spoiler alert: I feel like I'd need to have understood what happened in order to spoil it, but hey, let's say "moderate"

Monday, August 31, 2020

God gave rock 'n' roll to you


BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC

2020
Directed by Dean Parisot
Written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon

Spoiler alert: moderate

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Man, everybody really does want to be a cat


A WHISKER AWAY
Nakitai Watashi na Neko wa Koburo

2020
Directed by Junichi Sato and Tomotaka Shibayama
Written by Mari Okada

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

I suppose I could be persuaded to believe


THE VAST OF NIGHT

2020
Directed by Andrew Patterson
Written by "James Montague" (that is, Andrew Patterson) and Craig W. Sanger

Spoiler alert: mild

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Coffey was right


UNDERWATER

2020
Directed by William Eubank
Written by Brian Duffield and Adam Cozad

Spoiler alert: moderate, maybe very very slightly high

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Rock and roll never forgets


TROLLS WORLD TOUR

2020
Directed by Walt Dohrn
Co-directed by David P. Smith
Written by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Elizabeth Tippet, Maya Forbes, and Wallace Wolodarsky

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Low fantasy


ONWARD

2020
Directed by Dan Scanlon
Written by Jason Headley, Keith Bunin, and Dan Scanlon

Spoiler alert: mild

Purple prose


COLOR OUT OF SPACE

2020
Directed by Richard Stanley
Written by Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley (based on the short story "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Pacifics


RIDE YOUR WAVE
(Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara)

2019 Japan/2020 USA
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
Written by Reiko Yoshida

Spoiler alert: moderate