Anything & Everything

CONTAINS SPOILERS. To read my review, follow this link . Knowing very little about history, I am not the best candidate to be speaking on such a dire topic, especially when my background knowledge extends mostly from Tumblr, whose resources and evidence few, and beliefs contradictory between two adjacent posts. However, it can hardly be overlooked that Dreamworks' new movie Home  has serious ties to European colonialism through the invasion of the planet earth by the alien species called the Boov, and despite it being very cute, highly entertaining, and hilarious animated film (for children! might I add), my young cynicism brought about by following various blogs on Tumblr has given rise to a new awareness of topics involving equality, creating a sort of filter as I watched the movie. Certainly I still enjoyed it. With such an all-star cast and the typical forms of amusement brought by a children's film it would be a total lie to say that even a Tumblr-induced cynicism-filt...

Walking into breakfast yesterday, Sister#2 announced news of her discovery fact that Dreamworks, only earlier this year, reduced their workforce by 500 people by shutting down an entire studio in California, just as we had planned on watching the recently-released animated film Home . This was devastating to her: a future animator, and with Dreamworks one of the leading companies in animation, we had always enjoyed the movies and continued to anticipate the release of each one, and going so far to challenge typical Disney-goers in claiming that she enjoys Dreamworks more than Disney (in some respects) when it comes to animated films. To an extent I agree with her; while Disney movies include a mix of vivid fantasies, light-hearted entertainment and the bawl-inducing family moments it's difficult to ignore how some of the better Dreamworks films have captured magic Disney can overlook. Clearly some Dreamworks films could have used a little work - take  Peabody and Sherman . It ...