Recaps, Analysis & Rants about Kids Movies
Let’s explore storytelling, gender roles, and cultural framing of an Indigenous story re-told by…Hungarians?
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Recaps, Analysis & Rants about Kids Movies
Let’s explore storytelling, gender roles, and cultural framing of an Indigenous story re-told by…Hungarians?
Dead moms, pleather spanx, and dry kindling thirst traps.
Cartoon Cara Delevingne defeats French Loki using Parkour and Psychic Weasels
Obey your parents – OR ELSE! A horror flick for kids.
Oh wow. Yeah. That’s…that’s bad.
You don’t understand – this isn’t like the OTHER movies!
I heard you were looking for someone who’s not like the other girls.
Disney finally (and awkwardly) lets a gay movie character out of the closet
Let’s see if I can be replaced with AI without causing a robot uprising: A Robot Review of …
A classic romance between a Buttered Trophy Loaf and the Smug Pirate Roberts…with vampires (kinda)
Oh here comes the talking cat.
Didn’t realize how very low our bar for AAPI representation in kids movies was until…this.
Orphan Tropes & Parent Traps – A Raucous Comedy About the Trauma of Family Separation (Yikes)
Let the battle begin
We don’t talk about Gilbert… no, no, no.
Debbies, Gwebbies, and the Summer Camp Experience
Border walls, astrally-projecting cats, and fae throwing names around willy-nilly
An escapist fantasy where ambitious woman receive the enthusiastic support of male colleagues
“Some of you may die – but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.” – Who …
The ‘hero’ narrative through the eyes of a mercenary colonizer.
Stay guai, or be yourself? A third-culture-kid’s guide
The antidote to the Magical Cure Trope we’ve all been waiting for
When we mentioned how nice it’d be to have more racial diversity in Despicable Me, THIS IS NOT …
Manic Pixie Orphans, here to exhume and polish our villain’s heart of gold
Oh here comes the talking cat.
Well… we tried.
Well FINALLY.
Where freaks dare to go bra-less and rock turtle necks.
WOW this movie did NOT age the way I expected it to.
We all had a childhood crush on the wrong furry
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I’m Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) 2nd-generation settler raising two children alongside my partner on the homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people. I support families and educators in raising the next generation of kind & courageous leaders, so we can all smash the kyriarchy together.
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