Championship Mercy in Win or Lose (2025)
Pixar has always been a master engineer of, as Roger Ebert calls films, “machines that generate empathy.” Starting from their earliest SIGGRAPH short films, even the few clunkers of the nearly 30 (count ’em!) films they’ve released drip with empathy.…
Review| Alita: Battle Angel and an Expected Savior
Alita: Battle Angel is a totally awesome mess. It’s got an unbelievably good lead in the heretofore-mostly-unknown Rosa Salazar, whose character should stand pretty much as deep in the Uncanny Valley as you can get, but somehow manages to be…