The Sheep Detectives is worth a watch, because who doesn’t love talking animals? It felt like that classic film, Babe 2: Pig in the City.
I went to watch because I read that it was Knives Out with sheep. Yup.
Charming.
3 of 5 stars.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 doesn’t have any of the charm as its predecessor. It wanted to say something about the present, because it dealt with media, both the dying mainstream magazine and the social media. Yet, it didn’t make any sense.
The main character was still Anne Hathaway except now she was no longer the young naive assistant. She was a writer laid off from a small print magazine who was hired to help conduct PR for Meryl Streep’s editor. Emily Blunt was the head of a fashion house. But why was she here? Beyond the need to see her, she wasn’t really needed.
The movie was a trifling thing. Why did I want to go watch it?
2 of 5 stars.
When I went to purchase tickets to Hokum online, there was no one watching on a Friday afternoon. I wondered if I should watch a scary movie alone in the darkened theater. I figured that I would be alright and went on to purchase the ticket. Obviously. When I arrived, there was one other viewer in the theater. She was an older lady who would have a seat in the row in front of me. Did you know this movie was about a witch? I did and speculated that maybe I might be watching alone with one in the theater. I have an active imagination.
Anyhow, I barely saw any of it as I was quite frightened for much of the run time. I was filled with dread. It has been a while since I felt like this in the theater. I miss it.
4 of 5 stars.
I don’t know, but I find it easy to watch Nogizaka46 concerts from here in the US. What are people complaining about with J-Pop music. In fact, this morning I saw the first day of Nogizaka46’s 14th Year Birthday Live, and I’ll be watching the next two as well.
I guess it is almost impossible to get tickets to a show in Japan? That’s true. I’ve long wanted to go, but never have the courage to go. Plus it is impossible to get them because of the weird lottery rules and hoops to jump through. Is it worth it to lock down how to retrieve tickets? Make it difficult to get them? Or how about make them expensive with ticket scalpers and such?
Either way I am not getting to see Nogizaka46 live and in person in my lifetime.
Project Hail Mary is a fine movie. It reminds me of early 2000s films. I wish we got more like this — something that all audiences can enjoy. Though it sounds nice, there is a danger to that thinking. What we’ll end up getting is something we’ll forget about days after watching.
I post this review several weeks after having seen it in the theaters. I can’t remember much. It was enjoyable at the time, but now it is just a blur. I wish we’d get a BluRay of this. I doubt we’ll get one. Physical media was great. The world burns…
3 of 5 stars.
Hoppers is straight up madness. Here’s the plot: the main character uses an invention to “hop” into a beaver robot to save her favorite pond. She gets to meet the animals who act like animals, then the animal council shows up and takes the madness up a notch.
I’m writing this review vaguely remembering what anything was. All I can do though is to implore you to give it a watch, and you’ll see and experience the madness, too.
3 of 5 stars.
Wuthering Heights movie opened on Valentine’s Day 2026. It was marketed as a romance. This movie ended in tragedy. Then I read the Wikipedia page and the book actually is even more tragic and awful than this movie.
Awful is the key word here. I didn’t enjoy it one bit. There’s no romance at all. There’s no predestined love. It is a story that just makes you cringe. The movie did as well.
One thing about it was the staging. Very much trying to be flashy and stylized. It turned out rather gimmicky.
I don’t think I was the target audience.
2 of 5 stars.
Nogizaka46’s 41st single was released last Wednesday. Ikeda Teresa occupies the center position. Last single of the current captain, Umezawa Minami. It’s fine. Please listen.
I ran across this YouTube video this morning. It’s been twenty years since the first broadcst of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. TWENTY YEARS! For me it’s only been nineteen because at that time the lag between DVD release in America, but still, how time flies!
It is still my most favorite anime ever. Let’s all watch it again in Kyon Order.
