Moms and dads need entertainment and these posts, for one reason or another will do just that
Sleepers, they’re not just for movies that fly under the radar. It’s summertime and just like the sleeper film that critics hadn’t heard of, it’s the literary sleeper for us, The Amelia Six. It’s like that expectations vs. reality meme that has your quarantine self-haircut envisioned as Kelly Kapowski, but it turns out to be more Joe Dirt. To be clear, in this case The Amelia Six was Tiffani Thiessen that actually looked like Kelly Kapowski.
From the first moment I saw the trailer and heard the synopsis for Infinity Train I knew it would be one that we’d thoroughly enjoy. A young girl stumbles onto a train where everything defies reality and she’s unable to get back home. Created by Owen Dennis a writer and storyboard artist on Adventure Time, Infinity Train reminded us of what The Wizard of Oz, mixed with Snowpiercer and aspects of The Matrix. Oh –and the look is reminiscent of a Cartoon Network show with more anime-esque elements than you’d expect. Infinity Train, Book 1 didn’t disappoint and is now available on DVD and streaming.
In times of stress comfort viewing is what lots of people seek. I know that our family has been watching those classic 80s through mid-90s cinematic nuggets. On Friday night, April 10 at 8:00 PM ET you’ve got the chance to watch Hook while Nerdist and Rufio from the film (actor Dante Basco) chime in on real-time via twitter.
On average we read one book a year that runs. This is the descriptor we use when the book can’t be put down. The story that the author has put forth literally runs off of the page and into your imagination as fuel for what could be a perfect movie. Having said that, the book is almost always better, so be ahead of the curve and read City Spies by James Ponti. From the first two pages the book’s story runs into your mind with a credible, fun plot that has early teenagers as the main characters.
Keep Pixar weird. If it were a city then this could be its rallying call among some of its citizens. They’re the folk who’ve lived there for a long time and love the place, but they also like the time when it just got started. Onward is a film from brings the oddity back to Pixar does it with an original story that feels unlike anything they’ve done since the late 2000s. In short, Onward manages to assure critics of Pixar that they’re too reliant on sequels or need them to create ‘those’ moments that we’ve come to expect from them.
Why isn’t she in school? I wondered to myself when Greta Thunberg first burst onto the scene. If your mid elementary aged child was wondering that; or possibly other things about the schoolgirl who went on strike, then this book is exactly what they’re looking for. Greta’s Story, The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet by Valentina Camerinia, translated by Moreno Giovannoni with illustrations by Veronica Carratello is a middle-elementary school book that gives ages 8-12 at this young eco-warrior.
Educational illustrated books get a bad rap. When readers get to a certain age they feel that books with too many pictures are babyish. The exceptions to those books are graphic novels, which are more mature in their eyes. Everest, The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Nogay is an illustrated book in name only. In reality, the content, intelligence, details, information and length put this more in league with a graphic novel, albeit one that’s bigger in size than a standard comic book.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a copy of the Blu-Ray that I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions are my own. Any intellectual property that spans more than a decade in-between releases we find interesting. FLCL: Progressive and FLCL: Alternative are the sequels to FLCL, an anime series that came out in 2001. In its run on Adult Swim Toonami FLCL was #1 in its timeslot and earned a huge cult following. FLCL (pronounced Fooly Cooly), both Progressive and Alternative are finally available on Blu-Ray DVD in a combo pack with tons of special features.
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