July 12, 2021
Sony Pictures
In the last 18 months, audiences around the world have had the pleasure, luxury, and at times, painful experience of watching theatrical movies in the comfort of their own homes.
Due to the vast differences between a cinema hall and a living room hall, from the ambient lights, background noise to speaker system, it can be challenging to find the same appreciation for a movie watching it at home for the first time, than if it was first viewed in the cinemas.
But animated movies are somewhat different, in that they were made to hold the audience’s attention in a different way.
I havenât seen all that much manga and anime. I havenât seen all of Hayao Miyazakiâs films by any means, but I have seen a few of the genreâs touchstone movies, like âAkiraâ and âGhost in the Shell.â I also liked more recent entries like âYour Faceâ and âWeathering With You.â Truth be told, the real anime fan in the family is my cousin Brett; when I visited his place in Louisiana, he pretty much had a comfortable recliner, a giant TV and three boxes of anime videos. His knowledge of the genre puts mine to shame.
Posted on Friday, May 14th, 2021 by Rafael Motamayor
Though we continue to see movies with ’80s-inspired aesthetics, we’re starting to see modern films embrace the 00’s, and even the 2010s, especially in how they deal with social media and our relationship with it. The problem is that the use of current references in a movie, like the use of memes or viral songs, can make a film feel dated or even gimmicky by the time they’re released. That’s not the case with
The Mitchells vs The Machines
, a film that perfectly brings the Extremely Online Generation to life and captures the look of YouTube videos from the early 2010s without feeling like a relic.
The Simpsons.
In real life, artificial intelligence has so far proved itself pretty benign Siri and Alexa haven’t tried to kill us, even if Netflix’s content-recommendation algorithm can at times be a little creepy. But the fear that our present-day technological wonders could one day bring about our downfall is never too far from our minds. And if it ever does get very far from our minds, Hollywood is always there to remind us that the robot apocalypse may be right around the corner.
The latest iteration in this line of AI-panic movies,
The Mitchells vs. the Machines, comes to us courtesy of Sony and Columbia Pictures and is now available for streaming on Netflix. Refreshingly, and unlike most other entries in the genre,