War for the Planet of the Apes

The saga started in Rise of the Planet of the Apes comes to an end in Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes. I’ve been a huge fan of these films since the first one. Taking a well known concept like Planet of the Apes and turning it on its head to focus…

Captain Fantastic

A parent raises his children outside the bounds of society until a tragic event forces him to return to the world he left behind in Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic. This film could have gone in so many different directions in terms of how I’d react to it. At its core it’s a film that celebrates…

The Good Dinosaur

Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur marks Pixar’s second film release of 2015 and delivers a very different experience from the earlier effort, Inside Out. The premise here is that the dinosaurs were never wiped out by a meteor and continued to evolve after that. Our introduction to the story shows an Apatosaurus making use of…