Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022)
An animated reboot based on the book of the same name, with differences from the live-action movie of the same name.

During the pandemic, a 14 year old boy remains stuck in his school dormitory while his mother tries to contact him.
An animated reboot based on the book of the same name, with differences from the live-action movie of the same name.
The Mandolorian has a more nuanced and commentative take on masculinity that refrains from praising the toxic traits associated with the social category, while also showing a more positive and transformative representation of masculine characters.
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.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
A working class mom searches for her daughter.
Inuit girls use their Inuit tradition to hunt down alien monsters, enough said.