For a first film with a huge shadow looming over it The Watchers isn’t bad. It’s just not great.

Woof Woof Daddy needs to go back to the pound.

If good intentions were all movies were rated on then IF would be an A+.

Fan fiction? An Il Mare riff? Suicide jokes? A Balloon’s Landing is just weird and ballsy enough to be enjoyable.

If you go into Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire expecting to be hurtled to 1984, you win.

Would you like Nicolas Cage invading your dreams? If so the cancel culture satire Dream Scenario is for you.

Why is 3D back? If you want to see anything in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, see it in 2D.

I wish… I wish… Disney would go back to the old days and do better than Wish.

If Hayao Miyazaki is going out after The Boy and the Heron, it’s not quite with a whimper, but it certainly isn’t a bang.

Holy crap, Wonka is actually a delight and that monster at WB didn’t hide it from us.

Finally. Not the Monkey King! Creation of the Gods kicks off with Kingdom of Storms.

Just… see Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria for yourself.

Mirror is just so 2022. Here’s comes Error with YUM Investigation, a little 1982.

It’s chirpy. It’s pink. It’s less miserable than Oppenheimer. It’s Barbie, and it’s every bit as hyper as you think it is.

Shin Kamen Rider, Shin Masked Rider, whatever the title, it’s the least of Hideaki Anno’s Shin Trilogy.

Yokaipedia is like a Japanese Stranger Things, including the girl, the Black kid and the upside down.

Lonely Castle in the Mirror is the Toyota of anime. Solid, dependable, easily serviced. Not too flashy.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the year’s first beloved IP worth a damn.

Disney’s remake of its own Pinocchio proves the Mouse has turned into George Lucas: it just can’t leave it alone.

Holy shit! Idris Elba comes out of a lamp in Three Thousand Years of Longing.