I had these grandiose plans last year to watch every Ninja Turtles production - every TV episode and movie, but Viacom doesn't quite have the rights to all of the original 80s run of the show, and Paramount+ is missing a season from the 2003 reboot, and I have to pay how much for Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation on Prime Video?? Hard pass.
Ideally I would've seen this in the context of the run of the animated series, or…
This was a treat to view. I really dug the art direction for this film and the creative team made the right decision in treating the main antagonist as an actual threat, and not lampshading or downplaying them, like most mainstream films (animated or not) tend to do. This felt like the closest thing we'd ever see to a Courage the Cowardly Dog revival in terms of expressionist animation mixed with genuinely grotesque imagery. I wish that the first, made…
Disclaimer: Am a coworker with someone who worked on this production, hence the lack of star rating here.
This was a lot of fun! I can tell Red Snow is a labor of love from the cast & crew, both a deconstruction of vampire lore and a genuinely engaging homage to the horror genre, though this one leans more on comedy than scares.
The director does a great job of juxtaposing visuals in such a way to elicit a reaction from…
Stuart Saves His Family throws everything you know about the SNL film formula out the window. There are no rock star cameos, no big budget action sequences, no wink-nudge insider humor or overuse of catchphrases. It's barely a comedy, settling for a tone that wavers between light farce and sober drama. The film is incredibly ambitious and easily the least commercial of all the SNL films I've seen so far (and likely have been released since). How do you market…
