Thursday, June 20, 2024

Movie Thoughts: IF (2024)

  • Released: May 7, 2024
  • Directed by: John Krasinski
  • Running time: 1h 44min
  • Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A girl named Bea is struggling with herself as her father falls ill. She ends up teaming up with a man named Cal to find homes for several IFs, imaginary friends, who have lost their people.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Movie Thoughts: The Tibetan Dog (2011)

  • Released: June 6, 2011
  • Directed by: Masayuki Kojima
  • Running time: 1h 35min
  • Rating 4/5

Synopsis

A boy named Tenzin moves to Tibet to live with his father after his mother's passing. Here, he learns about the local culture and befriends a wild Tibetan mastiff named Duoji. But when local bandits start believing that the dog is a monster and is killing people, Tenzin will have to find a way to keep his pet safe.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Movie Thoughts: The Garfield Movie (2024)

  • Released: May 1, 2024
  • Directed by: Mark Dindal
  • Running time: 1h 41min
  • Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

Garfield and Odie, together with Garfield's father Vic, wind up in a situation where they have to steal a huge amount of milk to please a crazy Persian cat threatening them.

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Little Mountain Boy (2015)

 

  • Released: October 15, 2015
  • Directed by: Xavier Koller
  • Running time: 1h 40min
  • Rating: 3/5

Synopsis

A shepherd boy named Ursli very much loves his pet goat. But when his father loses his merchandise to sell in town, poverty strikes his family he has no choice but to part with the goat, all the while the local school bully picks on him constantly. Together with his friend Seraina, Ursli hopes to find a way to get back his pet and get his family out of poverty.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Ao: The Last Hunter (2010)

  • Released: April 1, 2010
  • Directed by: Jacques Malaterre
  • Running time: 1h 24min
  • Rating 2/5

Synopsis

After his clan is murdered, a lone Neanderthal goes to look for his long lost twin brother. Along the way he is joined by a pregnant Cro-Magnon.

Movie Thoughts: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

  • Released: May 8, 2024
  • Directed by: Wes Ball
  • Running time: 1h 25min
  • Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Many generations after Caesar's death, a chimpanzee named Noa is in peril after his clan gets captured by a rival kingdom of apes, which is insistent on accessing a mysterious vault. Noa is joined on his journey by an orangutan named Raka and a human named Mae.

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Damsel (2024)

  • Released: March 8, 2024
  • Directed by: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
  • Running time: 1 h 50 min
  • Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A girl is sacrificed to a dragon and must find a way to survive while discovering the lies and deceit that led to her and the dragon's situation.

Monday, May 20, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Tigers on the Rise (2024)

  • Released: April 22, 2024
  • Directed by: Rob Sullivan, Alistair Tones
  • Running time: 1h 18min
  • Rating 4.5/5

Synopsis

Documentary about tigers in India and the people who are trying to help them thrive.    

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Lassie: A New Adventure (2023)

  • Released: July 27, 2023
  • Directed by: Hanno Olderdissen
  • Running time: 1h 31min
  • Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

Lassie, her owner Flo, and Flo's cousins investigate a series of dognappings from around the neighborhood.

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Tiger (2024)

  • Released: March 13, 2024
  • Directed by: Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz, Rob Sullivan
  • Running time: 1h 30min
  • Rating 4/5

Synopsis

Documentary about a mother tigress and her cubs.

Friday, May 10, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Scapegoats (2023)


  • Released: November 22, 2023
  • Directed by: Rock Grispen
  • Running time: 1 h 32 min
  • Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

During the eighteenth century, the south of the Netherlands is haunted by criminal gangs known as the Buckriders. Two men, Paul Penris and Jan Clercx, set out on bringing justice to these Buckriders. But all is not what it seems, and it turns out Clercx might have some personal demons to fight as well.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Cheetah: Fatal Instinct (2013)

  • Released: December 11, 2022
  • Directed by: Reinhard Radke
  • Running time: 45 min
  • Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A documentary about two cheetah mothers, one young and one experienced, trying to keep their cubs alive into adulthood.

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Wish (2023)

  • Released: November 8, 2023
  • Directed by: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
  • Running time: 1h 35min
  • Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

A young woman sets out on a quest so rescue a kingdom's wishes from the evil king hoarding them.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (2024)

  • Released: March 27, 2024
  • Directed by: Adam Wingard
  • Running time: 1h 55min
  • Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Kong and Godzilla team up to defeat an evil giant ape intent on taking over the surface world.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Arthur the King (2024)

 

  • Released: February 22, 2024
  • Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones
  • Running time: 1h 47min
  • Rating 4/5

Synopsis

An adventure racer befriends a stray dog. Together, with the rest of their team, they want to be the first to make it to the finish line.

Monday, April 8, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

  • Released: March 2, 2024
  • Directed by: Mike Mitchell, Stephanie Stine
  • Running time: 1h 34min
  • Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

Po teams up with a vulpine thief named Zhen to stop the newest antagonist threatening China: the shape-shifting Chameleon.

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Autumn and the Black Jaguar (2024)

  • Released: February 1, 2024
  • Directed by: Gilles de Maistre
  • Running time: 1h 40min
  • Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A girl named Autumn travels back to the Amazon rainforest to save her best friend, a black jaguar named Hope, from wildlife traffickers.

Friday, March 22, 2024

Slowly Becoming More Active Again

 Hi guys!

As you might've noticed, this blog is very slowly picking up the posting-pace again. It's not back in full swing yet (where I posted about 5-10 times per month) but I am slowly returning to writing new posts for this blog. 

I still have a small backlog, too (of about 20 posts), so I hope to return to posting semi-regularly. However, I will not go back to making a Movies/Series Thoughts post about every single movie or series I watch. That's just not possible for me to keep up with anymore. I do the same now on my book review blog, where I only review certain books I read but not all of them. I used to review (nearly) every piece of media I consumed but that's (among other things) what led to my huge burnout last year, resulting in almost no posts in the past November-February time-frame. 

So in short: I'm slowly picking up the pace in posting again on this blog, I'll try to post about five reviews per month but it might be more or less depending on my gusto and how big my backlog is (don't want to exhaust it quite yet). 

I am also still posting on my book review blog should that interest you. The book review blog is slightly more active that this Movie Thoughts blog, but that's simply because I read more than I watch movies/series, and I also have a much bigger backlog of posts for said blog (about forty), so I wouldn't be running out of posts in my backlog as fast.

Finally: I wanted to mention that you can now follow this blog using the "follow" button on the right-hand side of the screen (below the "labels" section). That way you can be notified of new posts without having to follow the Twitter or Tumblr updates page.

So yes, I hope you enjoy future posts and if you stuck around: thank you!

Movie Thoughts: Orion and the Dark (2024)

  • Released: February 2, 2024
  • Directed by: Sean Charmatz
  • Running time: 1h 33min
  • Rating: 3/5

Synopsis

A boy named Orion, who happens to be afraid of everything but especially darkness in particular, is taken on a journey by the Dark itself in order to hopefully ease his worries.

Monday, March 18, 2024

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Movie Thoughts: 10,000 BC (2008)

 

  • Released: February 22, 2008
  • Directed by: Roland Emmerich
  • Running time: 1 h 49 min
  • Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

After members of his tribe are taken captive as slaves, a young hunter sets out on a journey to free them.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Movie Thoughts: Leo (2023)

 

  • Released: November 21, 2023
  • Directed by: Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim
  • Running time: 1 h 42 min
  • Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

The elderly tuatara Leo and his best friend Squirtle have been class pets all their lives. Wanting to make something of his last year of life, Leo decides he wants to go out there and see the world, while he also wants to contribute to the current class's well-being by bonding with the kids, breaking the secret rule that animals can't talk to humans.