A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch. Studio Ghibli was somehow involved in this movie and it’s obvious they did the storyboarding for the end credits, but the rest of the film feels pretty far from what they’ve done in the past. It’s a great film with an unfortunate cliff hanger of an ending, but getting to that ending was fun adventure with enjoyable story elements that kept my attention. Buy On Amazon!

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies. Sometimes the dreams we have aren’t the dreams we should want, and sometimes when we get what we dreamed of we realize that those dreams weren’t ever...

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea. Ponyo has a fun theme song! The rest of the film is a lovely Studio Ghibli story of family and how it’s made, but with some terrifying tsunami situations and questionable magic implementation. Buy On Amazon!

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles. Oh I’ve seen this one before, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I forgot that I didn’t have a high opinion of it. It’s by no mean by bad film, but the story is pretty shallow and the patriotism is firmly tattooed...

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. A lovely story of little people that borrow a fair bit of things from the much larger humans that they cohabitate with in a rural home. There’s plenty of shenanigans and a bitter sweet ending, but this is classic and fantastic Studio Ghibli. Buy On Amazon!

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange… What’s even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn’t enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is...

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family. The trailers for this were spooky as all get out, but the actual movie is hilarious, every time Nick Cage was on screen I was rolling with how hilarious he looked and sounded. His whole vibe was supposed to be “Satanist Horror” but was...