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.
March Across the World 2025 (Trip 19) - New Zealand
I was pretty tired of Taika Waititi after Thor: Thunder and Love so I wasn’t sure what to expect from this movie. It’s a cute little movie with a good performance from Sam Neill but the sense of humor got mildly annoying to me at points. The jokes that weren’t annoying I just didn’t find very funny. The best way I can describe the movie is that it’s a movie your mom will enjoy and when it ends she’ll say “that was cute.”
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…
