The BFG (Big Friendly Giant; 2016, out now on DVD) comes with questions, but it is a journey. It’s the journey there that keeps the audience glued because we want to know the answers to the questions that we implicitly ask while watching The BFG. The first question is why Sophie is taken away by a…

Superman grieves when an earthquake strikes Anyone who has gone through an earthquake won’t be thinking about the earthquake in Superman: The Movie (1978). That’s pretty much a given. (Not to denigrate in any way the experiences of people in earthquakes.) Many people have the seen the scene in Superman. In the desert, Daily Planet…

There’s a scene in family animation Finding Dory (2016, out now on DVD) where Dory is utterly lost. This small blue tang fish finds herself completely and utterly abandoned. The moments before there was help from her friends, but in a ‘change of tide’, she gets lost from her band of supporters. This is a moment where…

I enjoyed Doctor Strange (2016). It takes us on a journey about the ‘spirit’. Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a witty, overly confident, self-assured neurosurgeon at the peak of his powers.     Strange is excellent at what he does. In one sequence, another surgeon has finished surgery. Strange observes that the surgeon’s work…

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