I'll be upfront, that the animal attack genre isn't necessarily my favorite kind of movie, generally speaking. If it doesn't have some kind of broader message or moral that it's trying to put forward, to me it generally just reads like a sort of exploitation film that leads to stoking fears about animals that do hurt people, but typically in edge cases, while showing those edge cases as norms in a way that can distort public perception. I also just…

Film #1 of the Watch for the Oscars Challenge (link here: boxd.it/DxUGK).

I am admittedly not huge a Wallace and Gromit fan, in the sense that I think I saw one of the shorts as a kid, and that was about it. That said, this movie absolutely stole my heart. Wallace and Gromit are immensely charming characters with great characterization, which especially given that Gromit has no lines, is quite remarkable. Feathers McGraw accomplishes a similar feat, managing to radiate…

I know a lot of people don't really care for the animation style, but it worked fine for me, honestly? Maybe it's because I'm not an animation-core person who cares deeply about the aesthetics, but I found it overall smooth and fluid and effectively told the story through visuals which is what I care about. The voice acting is overall pretty solid, not everything lands but most lines are delivered well enough in my opinion, and the black freighter segments…