Soul (2020) • View trailerFive stars. Rated PG, for mild thematic elementsBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 1.1.21This isn’t the first time I’ve observed that some of the sharpest, wittiest and most...
The Croods: A New Age — now playing in whatever theaters are open, and available via video-on-demand closer to Christmas — is akin to its 2013 ancestor … only much more...
Scoob (2020) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated PG, for mild suggestive humor and fantasy peril By Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.10.20 Scooby-Doo, the nervous Great Dane with a nose for supernatural-style...
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017) • View trailer Three stars. Rated PG, for no particular reasonBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 5.15.20 Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli clearly has inspired the look and...
Your Name (2016) • View trailer 4.5 stars. Rated PG, for dramatic intensity By Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 4.22.20 The spirit of Studio Ghibli lives on in writer/director Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name, a...
Onward (2020) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated PG, for fantasy perilBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 3.6.20 Despite the traditional Pixar gloss — their films always look spectacular — Onward Even though the clock is...
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated G, and suitable for all agesBy Derrick Bang You have to love credits which promise that “No sheep were probed during...
Klaus (2019) • View trailer Four stars. Rated PG, for mild rude humorBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 1.24.20The holidays are weeks behind us, but — thanks to the recently announced Academy Award...
Frozen II (2019) • View trailer Two stars. Rated PG, for no particular reason By Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 11.22.19 I want to know what this film’s writers were smoking. Granted, this...
The Addams Family (2019) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated PG, for macabre and suggestive humor By Derrick Bang This new Addams Family film definitely catches the vibe that cartoonist Charles Addams established so well, during...
