All by Eric Botts

The Endless (2017)

Directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s 2017 film The Endless conveys its fairly complicated concept in a way that makes enough sense to feel believable, but it also withholds enough explanation to make that same concept feel incomprehensible on a cosmic scale. This partial sequel to 2012’s Resolution manages to do all of that with a very human-level story about the relationship between two brothers as they return to the cult that raised them after their mother’s death and gradually resolve their conflicting memories.

Watership Down (1978)

Watership Down has a reputation as a devastating experience for a kid’s movie. Boomers took their Xer kids to see it unaware that it featured the massacre of so many cute cartoon bunnies. They should’ve watched the trailer… I only saw it as an adult, but it would’ve been perfect for a kid like me.