Onward: Recovering the everyday magic
by Symeon J. Thompson It was a time of wonder, of adventure and heroism, of quests and great feats. It was a time long ago, a time that never really existed – or did it? Is it perhaps a time that exists in a special way, a way that can be accessed in the here and now? Pixar’s latest feature Onward is about just such a world, a fantasy world that has forgotten the magic at its core. Ian Lightfoot (Tom Holland) is a teenage elf whose father Wilden (Kyle Bornheimer) died shortly before he was born, leaving him to…