Alexandrea Callaghan
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Certified nerd, super geek and very proud fangirl.
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Vampire Academy
Okay so the Vampire Academy books were something that I absolutely devoured as a teenager. I recognize (as an avid reader as well as a screenwriter) that the actual writing was not great. But I insist that there is a really great story buried in those books. HOWEVER that becomes a very difficult point to argue when they release a Vampire Academy movie that looked exactly like every parody film released in the 2010s. So when I found out they were making a TV show based on the books I was so skeptical and I wanted nothing more than for them to bring to life the story I saw in my head while reading those books. Well I finally got around to watching the show and I don’t know how many more chances this story is going to get, but can someone hire me so I can do this right PLEASE?!
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Pixar Movies By Era
Last but not least in our ranking of Pixar movies, we’ve got our healing era. Now this era is arguably my favorite because it really shows some growth in the company. With the exception of the very first era of films that came out of Pixar this one is the most consistent and the most solid. This era consists of 6 movies with wildly different storylines, most of which are original and extremely heartfelt.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Pixar Movies By Era
In our second to last era of ranking Pixar movies we have the moving on era. It is a much shorter era than the previous one with only 4 movies. But it is absolutely an era all about moving on and leaving the past behind a little. I think the real defining factor of this era of movies is that the sequels feel pretty far divorced from their original films, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. All that means is that these characters and the audience are different from how they started. And by most measures that’s a good thing. It shows growth and hope and the fact that an animation company was able to capture that feeling in just a few movies is an astounding thing.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Pixar Movies by Era
In our third era of these Pixar movies is what I call the Growing Up Era. There are a couple of reasons that is the definition I decided on but the first being this is where most of the sequels to those first couple of era’s live. Most of these movies are about growing up, getting older, moving on, taking responsibility and they are geared toward the high school seniors who were the target audience of the original films. They all came out as we were graduating or shortly after.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Pixar Movies By Era
As we continue with ranking Pixar movies by their eras (eras that I made up and defined all by myself) we move into the Disney Partnership era. This era actually goes beyond their partnership, this era actually refers to the first era of films after Disney purchased Pixar. This first era of the melding companies is actually rather small because as I have mentioned in the first article ranking these films, I decided to split these up completely by vibes and emotion. And I think each of the eras that I broke these into hold a specific set of emotions or intended themes for the audience.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Pixar Movies by Era
Alright y'all we have completed ranking Disney movies so I am moving on to Pixar. Most animation fans would agree that Pixar movies are the best of what Disney has to offer. Now Pixar movies aren’t really broken into eras like straight up Disney films are so I am going to break them into eras because I really do think that in each era you can see and feel a trend in these films and how they are broken up. My eras are going to be broken up by what feelings, or intentions I think each collection of movies give off. Also Pixar has really never stopped releasing films. Its largest gap in production was in between Toy Story and A Bug’s Life and that was a period of 3 years. Since then Pixar has steadily released films every year or every other year, even during COVID. So there was no logical time period to break these movies into.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Disney Movies By Era
The Revival Era of Disney includes all of the more current or modern Disney movies, though a clear era post these films has not been defined I’m going to keep clumping them in with this one. However for the purposes of this list we will only be talking about the 6 films that fall into this specific era. Much like the eras before it the ranking is kind of arbitrary, there are no bad movies only less good.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
And Just Like That
Season 1 of And Just Like That was fine…it definitely still felt like Sex and the City. But I love mediocre drama so here we go with the second season of the revival. The new characters they introduced last season are still in play. Though they are good characters it feels like they are trying so hard to replace Samantha.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
And Just Like That...
So when I found out Sex and the City was getting a revival, I binge watched the entire original series and the movies. Just to pick up the first episode, hate everything and stop watching it. But I was home sick today so I decided to try again so here I go, with the first season of Just Like That, the Sex and the City revival.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Most Heartbreaking Kids Movies
So the genre of children’s movies or kids movies is vast and there are many entries to it. Some are musical and fun, some are about nothing, some thrive off of cheap jokes and take no thought process to watch at all. But sometimes, very occasionally there is an entrance into the kids movie genre that is heavy and quite emotional. Now these are arguably the best kids movies, the ones that teach something and cause everyone that watches them (not just kiddos) to have a strong emotional reaction. This can be said for very few kids movies but we are going to list out the most emotional and sometimes heartbreaking movies for kids.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Underrated Children's Movies
With about a million children’s movies out there, and Disney really dominating that particular market, it's really easy for great movies to get overlooked. So here I am with some of my favorite, underrated children’s movies that I consider must-watches. Now these are mostly movies that I don’t think enough children get shown but this list can’t be a million words long so we are omitting literally every studio Ghibli movie even though we should show all children all of those movies all of the time.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Ranking Disney Movies By Era
The post-renaissance era for Disney was actually a bit rough. We had some absolutely incredible movies that definitely stood the test of time. And then we had others that probably should have just stayed ideas. Either way the post-renaissance era of Disney produced 11 films that are surprisingly easy to rank.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
