By Kyle McMahon
Pop Culture Weekly s Kyle McMahon serves up the very best movies of 2020.
2020 has certainly been quite the year for all of us. By late March, most of the movie theaters across the country had closed down and movie studios scrambled to shuffle their release dates numerous times over and over again as we all waited to find out what would happen to the films we were most looking forward to in 2020.
Luckily for us, movie studios found a great balance between rescheduling certain movies while sending others to streaming (or a mixture thereof). This allowed us movie lovers to get some great (& not so great) movies in a pretty crappy year.
Soul (2020) | Disney Pixar
The 2015 Disney Pixar film
Inside Out took us into the mind and emotional core of a young girl. In 2020’s
Soul, directors Pete Doctor and co-director Kemp Powers go beyond the body to explore metaphysical matter.
The gorgeously animated
Soul is also a play on the protagonist’s passion for music. Joe Gardner is a music teacher with unrealised dreams of becoming a performing jazz pianist. The 100-minute movie is being streamed on Disney+ Hotstar.
The film begins with disharmonious musical instruments playing in the background as the Disney logo is revealed. Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) is patiently encouraging his largely disinterested class of 12 year-old students to try harder.
SOUL is the latest Disney Pixar animation landing Disney Plus right in time for Christmas - and there was never a better time for the heartwarming story.