Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986)

An enchanted school for young heroes and villains brings the battle between good and evil in this fantasy movie.

People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

Cartoon Saloon is an animation studio that should be appreciated more. They tell unique stories with unique animation, proving that 2D animation is still alive and well.

Ian and Barley embark on a quest to find a magical gem to restore their father back to life.