I'll take this slapdash, low effort slop over the high polished slop of Pixar any day. In an age where well rendered, well animated CG models are commonplace in both live action and animated films, there is an undeniable charm to a small team doing either the least they can to release something than can legally be called a movie, or making the most meager resources and limited time.

I love that I can see the seams here. I love…

In the middle of Proustian reverie about visiting my ex, I realized I had forgotten to log the Moonbeam Entertainment classic Prehysteria! 2, which I watched on my laptop on a flight to LA. I absolutely nothing about the movie, except that it was much harder to get through than the original. Perhaps if I had grown up with this I'd have found it as similarly charming.

Okay, next to nothing. I think there's a stronger narrative throughline, the…

Coming into Hamilton, I expected to have the same opinion that I had when I originally listened to the soundtrack: that it's a corny hip-hop musical for dweebs who don't listen to rap. What I did not expect was to be subjected to a 21st century minstrel show, one that recruits the most diverse cast the Broadway stage has ever seen for a deep clean whitewashing of American history.

At this point, every human being on Earth is familiar with…