Watched in the cinema (149th visit in 2024)
It seems as if the success of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" in 2018 has encouraged the big Hollywood animation studios to leave the perfect recreation of reality to one side for a while and instead go all out artistically again. The makers behind "The Wild Robot" are also following this trend in their adaptation of Peter Brown's three-part children's book series, with the backgrounds in particular being inspired by Impressionism. As the…
Watched on Disney + from April 20th until April 27th
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When the surprising announcement was made in the finale of the second season of "The Mandalorian" at the end of 2020 that they would be returning a year later with "The Book of Boba Fett", there was a great deal of excitement, but also confusion, because the question quickly arose as to whether the…
Watched on Blu-Ray
It was quite a lot that the British director and scriptwriter Jim Hosking put you through when he dipped an old man in fat and then went on a manhunt in his first feature film "The Greasy Strangler". A film event that you may not have had to like, but it left a big impression.
So big, in fact, that Hosking's second feature film features a surprising number of well-known actors. Well, Aubrey Plaza is known for…
Watched on Netflix
Without seeing it until today, "Moon" was famous for me for a long time, but more because of Sam Rockwell than anything else.
When the director's name, Duncan Jones, gained profile for me through his second work "Source Code", my interest was aroused. Although the film silted up at the box office, almost all reviewers were full of praise for this work. So am I, especially when I think about the minimal costs of 5 million USD.…
Watched in the cinema
I saw a couple of Winnie Pooh movies when I was a kid. But I have to confess that I was never the biggest fan of it. There was just too much other Disney stuff that I liked more. That's why I watched "Christopher Robin" without much expectation.
As I have also seen "Goodbye Christopher Robin" this year (review also on letterboxd) and therefore know about the depressing genesis of the children's book, I had at…