In The Boy and the Beast, a young runaway, Ren, stumbles from regular old humanity into a beast world, where he becomes the apprentice to a cranky bear-like master named Kumatetsu. They are, suffice to say, an odd couple. Many physical and emotional battles to be waged across two hours. Director Mamoru Hosoda is the heir apparent to Miyazaki, perhaps […]
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Review: Allegiant
The Hunger Games, which stretched on for a movie too long as well, at least had the good sense to end each one with a cliffhanger. (Even Twilight did that.) Divergent, the Shailene Woodley-starring Games ripoff that’s on film three of four, conversely ends as would a television series on the bubble—each installment could continue on, but if for some […]