Christopher Robin
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Christopher Robin

I certainly was aware of Winnie the Pooh as a kid, but I don’t remember it being a staple of my childhood. Like anyone, I could name all of the characters, and I generally knew that Eeyore was a downer, Rabbit was a bit neurotic, and Owl didn’t know nearly as much as he thought…

Incredibles 2
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Incredibles 2

I absolutely loved The Incredibles when it came out. The year was 2004. Animation was laughably bad by today’s standards. Pixar was already a household name with a string of hits, but The Incredibles was the first movie where the entire cast was meant to be human. The animation just wasn’t there for lifelike humans, so…

Ready Player One
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Ready Player One

It was a few years after the book came out that I got around to reading Ready Player One. It’s the only book in my adult life that I read from cover to (digital) cover without putting down. I picked it up for a plane trip, continued it on the cab ride to the hotel,…

Pacific Rim: Uprising
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Pacific Rim: Uprising

When I watched the first Pacific Rim in the theater, I walked out with a feeling of whiplash. I wasn’t quite sure what I had watched, and I wasn’t quite sure if the insanity of it all was joyful or groan-inducing. After time (and a few more viewings), I came to fall on the side…