Tag: Jacob Tremblay

Wildwood (2026)

Hopefully you won’t find this too vulgar of me, but when I think of the Laika film studios, the word that keeps coming to mind is “ballsy”.

With five feature films already under their belt (two of which, The Boxtrolls and Missing Link, I still need to see), they have been walking to the beat of their own drum since Coraline came out in 2009. I was a little late to the party, having only discovered them a decade ago with Kubo & the Two Strings (which I called the best film of 2016); it did not take long to realize they make films that are a darker alternative to the films of Disney, Pixar, Illumination, and the other studios around.

Tags 2026, Amandla Stenberg, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Carey Mulligan, Charlie Day, Jacob Tremblay, Kubo, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, Mahershala Ali, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Richard E. Grant, Tom Waits, Travis Knight, Wildwood

3 1/2 Stars

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Not long into The Little Mermaid, I wondered if I should now be disqualified from reviewing any more of the live action remakes.

As a nineties kid, I am not alone in saying how much Disney meant to me, especially when I think back to the VHS collection I had (no one had a better VHS case like Disney: those things felt bulletproof). Now we are in the remake stage.

4 Stars

Wonder (2017)

There are many reasons why Wonder hit home for me, but the biggest has to be because I am such a supporter of anything that has to do with anti-bullying.

As a small, autistic child with a larger sized head (“Big head” was a huge nickname for me as a child), it is easy to see why I was picked on as a kid. If only Wonder had come out two decades earlier (Note: I did have friends as a child so don’t feel too sad for me or anything.)