True, the story was told from a teenage female perspective, but some of those puberty-specific anxieties are pretty universal.  Even though the film leaned heavily into the Tiger Mom stereotype, these kinds of mothers aren’t limited to Chinese heritage.

Having watched it, I concluded that various plot points would make less sense if everyone carried around a smart phone with a camera and video capabilities, but it still needed to be set in an era where some portable AV equipment wouldn’t be completely inaccessible to a group of young teenage girls. And maybe they…

I wonder if the character design was a deliberate choice to distance themselves from the usual Disney “house style”.  The characters in this and Luca definitely have more of an Aardman look than what Pixar has previously done.

While watching the film, I thought despite the Canadian-Chinese veneer, this story could just as easily have been about a girl of Jewish or Italian heritage. Heck, apart from the menstrual period and Boy Band aspects, this story rang true to me, being a male of mostly German and Lithuanian background.

I was just glad to see an attempt to animate Toronto, when they could have just as easily (and lazily) placed this story in NYC or LA. I even found myself thinking that the party scene looked like one of the wealthier areas of Etobicoke.

I get why the true story behind The Dropout makes for a compelling drama. Unless there’s some details I don’t know about, I’m having a tough time finding the collapse of WeWork worthy of a TV series. Unlike the elaborate scam Elizabeth Holmes managed to keep going for far too long, weren’t the Neumann’s basically just…

That was probably one of the most mild teenage rebellions I’ve ever seen in a movie.

I thought it was... fine. Middle of the pack Pixar. 

I can’t think of any other bit character in a movie who is so inessential to the plot but adds so much to the tone of the film.

Holy crap, he and his mom were ableto call a school assembly when he thought he was wronged? That just screams narcisstic personality disorder.

This is one of those things that I think many people still don’t understand. A sophmore chemical engineering student hasn’t even completed organic chemistry yet. It doesn’t matter how bright someone is, the applied sciences behind medical testing go way beyond what is taught in basic undergraduate courses. Even…

The original AV Club review gave the movie an A rating, but really didn’t elaborate on what made the film so great other than the cast and ‘Asian representation”. Everything else I’ve read about this film from other sources makes me believe that it probably is quite good, mainly for doing what Pixar usually does so…

I haven’t seen the show, so I’m glad to hear the producers take that view. It seems this reviewer thinks there was actually some substance to Holmes’ initial idea, judging by the two reviews published so far.

I don’t doubt this is a good movie (we’re talking Pixar, here, usually more reliable than not). But this article did a much, much better job justifying the “A” rating given by the original AVClub review.

Calling Holmes a “potentially brilliant innovator” is like calling Anna Sorokin a “potential German heiress”.

The show wants to understand how Holmes went from an eccentric and potentially brilliant healthcare innovator to a cold, calculating huckster capable of sociopathic levels of deception.

I hadn’t seen A New Hope prior to Empire , but was very familiar with the plot of the first film from one of those “read along” record albums that featured no-name voice actors, rather than the actual movie cast. They gave Vader a more distorted and mechanical-sounding voice than in the movies, so I assumed the…

One of the biggest contrasts between the first two films for me is the use of lighting.  Lucas mostly just flooded the sets with studio lighting, whereas everything in Empire looks colder, wetter and darker.

I really hope they don’t go the Solo route and feel compelled to flush out a back story from every off-hand reference made in the original film. I don’t need an elaborate explanation on why Luke thinks his father was a navigator of a spice freighter (the answer is obvious anyway), or why he wanted to go to Towchee…

Those twin Tatooine suns can be brutal.