Movie Diary
a) Parallel
I was looking for something to watch one night and happened upon this obscure Canadian sci-fi movie that turned out to be pretty good. Some people find a portal to parallel dimensions, all very slightly different from our reality, and start using it for get-rich-quick schemes (finding dimensions where different things have been invented and bringing them back) or other what-if things (finding the one dimension where a dead parent is still alive). It all escalates in the way these things usually do but I thought the way it unfurled was pretty clever and the dialogue was good, too, this could've done really well with a big budget and some recognizable stars, hopefully the director Isaac Ezban gets more money for his next one.
b) Moxie
I really enjoyed this movie Amy Poehler directed about a teenager who anonymously starts a feminist zine and starts an activist movement at her high school. Parts of it were a little broad and unrealistic but it was a really sweet and inspiring story, the characters were fleshed out well and felt more like real teenagers than in a lot of high school movies.
It's fun to see Tracee Ellis Ross's acting career sort of culminate in this movie where she sings and plays a role that's a little like her mother Diana Ross. As a music industry fable there's plenty of stuff in here that rings false but there was some clever show business satire stuff and as a rom com it's solid. There's a plot twist towards the end that I didn't see coming at all and it felt a little unnecessary but it kind of worked anyway.
d) Luca
Watched this with the kids, they really enjoyed it, kind of felt like enjoyably low stakes Pixar like Onward but I'm glad they can still do movies like this and not always the weird metaphysical concepts like Soul and Inside Out.
e) Wish Dragon
A really cute Chinese animated movie that's on Netflix, my 6-year-old loved it, kind of a clever twist on the wish-granting genie type story.
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