March Around the World 2024 (Trip 1) - Luxembourg
Ernest and Celestine is an animated film about the unlikely and societally frowned upon friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a mouse, Celestine. The main draw here is the said friendship between the film’s titular characters. It’s very heart warming to watch them go from strangers who happen to help each other to best friends who are willing to die for each other. It’s almost unbelievable that they would become such…
The touching story of Pedro Pascal searching for the best way to touch people.
Now that I’m 18 episodes and one movie into One Piece (I haven’t even scratched the surface of its over 1100 episodes and counting plus 20 movies) I can say that I like it. It’s got really strong characters and great stories to tell. My qualms with it start with how those stories are told. It’s not really a problem with this movie specifically but things just take way too long to happen. Maybe it’s just an issue with the arc I just finished, I don’t know.
March Across the World 2025 (Trip 17) - Ireland
This movie does a great job of both informing and entertaining which is a balance that always seems delicate with a biopic. While telling you about the Kneecap the group it also tells you about recent Irish history that Kneecap had a major part in. The movie is also just really entertaining with real, natural chemistry between the three leads thanks the members of Kneecap playing fictionalized versions of themselves. It…
This is so frustrating because the second it started getting interesting and it started pulling me in it ends. The pacing made it inherently difficult to get invested in anything that’s happening until the exact point that it ends. Dungeons & Dragons doesn’t really lend itself to short form storytelling, even one shots are usually at least an hour long. It needed to be maybe ten minutes longer and it needed better pacing. I can give a big compliment to the…
