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SOLO MIO – Joy Ngiaw
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Considering that I finished my 2025 review schedule with a score by Joy Ngiaw, it’s perhaps only fitting that I start 2026 with one too. I said in my review of WondLa that ‘somebody needs to give Joy Ngiaw a Star War to score,’ and while I still absolutely stand by that sentiment, that hasn’t actually happened, and what has happened instead is that she has been given a lovely, sunny, romantic comedy drama to work on instead. Solo Mio was made by five of the eight filmmaking Kinnane brothers from Rhode Island – directors Chuck Kinnane and Dan Kinnane, writers John Kinnane and Patrick Kinnane, and editor Pete Kinnane – and it is the latest in several ventures involving actor and comedian Kevin James. In this film, James plays Matt Taylor, whose life is upended when he is ditched at the altar by his fiancée Heather in the middle of his dream wedding in Rome. Despite being crushed and heartbroken by the end of his relationship, Matt is convinced by his friends to take his honeymoon anyway – a tour around the most romantic locations in Italy that becomes an adventure he never expected. Read more…
WONDLA – Joy Ngiaw
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
WondLa is an animated science-fiction adventure TV series produced by Skydance Animation which aired on Apple TV+ for 20 episodes across three seasons between 2024 and 2025. It is an adaptation of the 2010 children’s novel The Search for WondLa (and its sequels) by Tony DiTerlizzi, and follows the adventures of Eva, a teenage human girl who grows up in a state-of-the-art bunker, assisted by ‘M.U.T.H.R,’ a robot caretaker. However, after an attack on the bunker by unknown assailants on her sixteenth birthday, Eva suddenly finds herself on the surface of a strange planet called Orbona, which is inhabited by aliens, and which appears to have no other humans. With the help of Otto, a friendly giant sentient tardigrade, and a cantankerous alien named Rovender Kitt, and guided by a faded picture containing the word ‘WondLa,’ Eva sets off across the planet to find others like her, and hopefully establish a new home. The show stars Jeanine Mason as the voice of Eva, and has a fun supporting voice cast that includes Teri Hatcher, Brad Garrett, Alan Tudyk, John Ratzenberger, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Simon Pegg, and Dwight Schultz, among others. Read more…
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