Movie Thoughts: The Starling (2021)

• Released: September 12th, 2021
• Directed by: Theodore Melfi
• Running time: 1h 42min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A wife and husband must find their own ways to cope with grief and save their relationship after their newborn child dies.

Movie Thoughts: Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

• Released: July 12th, 2021 
• Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee
• Running time: 1h 55min
• Rating 1.5/5

Synopsis

The Looney Tunes team up with LeBron James for a basketball game against an evil AI, in order to win LeBron's son's freedom. 

Movie Thoughts: Wolf (2021)

• Released: September 17th, 2021
• Directed by: Nathalie Biancheri
• Running time: 1h 39min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A young man named Jacob is a therian, believing that he's a wolf. He is sent to an asylum for people with the same condition, where the ruthless doctor there is trying to "cure" them of their theriantropy by abusing them as ruthlessly as possible. Jacob also bonds with Cecile, a wildcat therian who lives at the asylum permanently. Will they find a way to be themselves away from the abuse of Dr. Mann?  

Movie Thoughts: Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)

• Released: June 16th, 2021
• Directed by: Octavio E. Rodriguez, Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Vine
• Running time: 1h 47min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A boy named Barney befriends a faulty robot named Ron. Ron's malfunctions are seen as bad publicity by the company who made him. Now Barney and Ron embark on a journey to keep Ron the way he is, learning about true friendship along the way.

Movie Thoughts: Rumble (2021)

• Released: December 15th, 2021
• Directed by: Hamish Grieve
• Running time: 1h 35min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

Winnie is a girl who dreams about following into her late father's footsteps as a coach of one of a wrestling monster. She finds a potential trainee in a monster named Rayburn, but it seems the duo will have a lot to work on if they want to win anything. Winnie dreams of winning an important competition with Rayburn in order for the stadium important to her hometown to stay.

Movie Thoughts: The Addams Family 2 (2021)

• Released: September 30th, 2021
• Directed by: Laura Brousseau, Kevin Pavlovic, Greg Tiernan
• Running time: 1h 33min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

The Addams family goes on vacation, while Wednesday is questioning whether she's truly one of them.

Movie Thoughts: Sing 2 (2021)

• Released: November 14th, 2021
• Directed by: Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet
• Running time: 1h 50min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Buster Moon and his theater group dream of putting on their biggest show yet, but the evil businessman who hired them seems to have different thoughts...

Movie Thoughts: Vicky and her Mystery (2021)

• Released: October 23rd, 2021
  
• Directed by: Denis Imbert
• Running time: 1h 24min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A girl named Victoria moves to a new village with her father and adopts a puppy, whom she names Mystery. Time passes and it turns out that Mystery is actually a gray wolf, not a dog like Victoria's father initially thought. With the farmers of the village being increasingly hostile towards wolves, Victoria and her father will now have get Mystery to safety in the wild, all the while Victoria doesn't want to give up her pet.

Movie Thoughts: Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)

• Released: November 10, 2021
  
• Directed by: Walt Becker
• Running time: 1h 36min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A girl adopts a puppy who grows to a giant size, and she now has to find a way to keep him safe.

Movie Thoughts: Fata Morgana: Making of: The Forbidden City (2021)

 

• Released: October 3, 2021
  
• Directed by: Sander Roeling, Marwin van de Hoeve
• Running time: 1 h 52 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

A documentary dedicated to the making of the Fata Morgana darkride at the theme park the Efteling in the Netherlands.

Movie Thoughts: The Wolf and the Lion (2021)

• Released: September 25, 2021
  
• Directed by: Gilles de Maistre
• Running time: 1 h 39 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

After the death of her late grandfather, a young woman named Alma inherits his property, an island in Canada full of nature, and decides to go live there. She quite abruptly ends up with both a lion cub and wolf pup at her property, and against her godfather's will she takes them in and raises them as her own. The two unlikely brothers grow up together, but when one day they and Alma are separated, they'll have to figure out a way to be together again.

Movie Thoughts: Misha and the Wolves (2021)

 

• Released: January 31, 2021
• Directed by: Sam Hobkinson
• Running time: 1 h 30 min
• Rating: 4/5

Synopsis

A documentary about Misha Defonseca, a woman who wrote a Holocaust memoir that later turned out to be fabricated.

Movie Thoughts: Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic (2021)

• Released: April 5, 2021
  
• Directed by: Jack Rampling
• Running time: 1 h 29 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

In this documentary, Louis Theraux delves into the situation around the "Tiger King" Joe Exotic, who became a sensation a few years ago.

Movie Thoughts: June and Kopi (2021)

• Released: January 28, 2021
  
• Directed by: Noviandra Santosa
• Running time: 1 h 30 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A young couple takes in a stray dog that's afraid of children. From here on we see how their lives progress as their daughter Karin grows older and she and the dog, June, grow very close.

Movie Thoughts: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)

• Released: June 11, 2021
  
• Directed by: Will Gluck
  
• Running time: 1 h 33 min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

After feeling left out, Peter joins an older rabbit and his team on a heist rampage, stealing food from as many farmers as possible. But when he ends up endangering his own family, Peter must decide where his loyalties lie.

Movie Thoughts: School of Magical Animals (2021)

• Released: 14 October 2021
• Directed by: Gregor Schnitzler
• Running time: 1 h 33 min
• Rating 1.5/5

Synopsis

A girl named Ida has trouble fitting in at her new school. Things get worse when a bunch of vandalizations take place around the school, and Ida gets blamed for them. Together with her new friends, one of which happens to be a talking magical fox named Rabbat, she goes to look for who the real culprit is.

Movie Thoughts: Extinct (2021)

• Released: 21 November 2021
• Directed by: David Silverman, Raymond S. Persi
• Running time: 1 h 24 min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

Two donut-shaped mammals accidentally travel to the future and find out that their species is extinct there. They end up meddling with time in order to try and save their species. 

Movie Thoughts: Against the Wild: The Journey Home (2021)

• Released: 23 March 2021
• Directed by: Richard Boddington
• Running time: 1 h 30 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A blind man gets stranded in nature and now must find his way back to civilization. His only company: an Alaskan malamute.

Movie Thoughts: My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)

• Released: 9 September 2021
• Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
• Running time: 1 h 43 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

Based on true events, this film tells the story of Anne Frank's best friend, Hanneli "Hannah" Goslar, in the events of her life leading up to the end of the war. 

Movie Thoughts: Back to the Outback (2021)

• Released: 10 December 2021
• Directed by: Harry Cripps, Clare Knight 
• Running time: 1 h 35 min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A bunch of Australian animals deemed scary (accompanied by a koala) escape from their zoo and try to make their way to their families in the outback.