Subplots Can Make a Movie Really Good: Looking Back on 2014’s Paddington

In the nearly-unexpected vein of my unexpected, but expectedly good, second viewing of The Jungle Book two nights ago, comes a viewing of director Paul King and author Michael Bond’s 2014 feature film, Paddington, as recent as last night. Resorting, not wholly without justification, to the welcome cliché of ‘in all sincerity‘, I’d stopped watching Paddington on account of having…