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Thursday, May. 30, 2024
Review: Director Ron Howard's "Jim Henson Idea Man"
There are moments when the spark of creation suddenly ignites and history stops. Like when the Wright brothers got a plane to fly. Or when Oreo added double filling. Maybe just as resonant was when Jim Henson cut up his mother's green coat into odd shapes and added ping-pong balls for eyes. At that...
Thursday, May. 30, 2024
Review: Daisy Ridley Shines In Director Joachim Rønning's "Young Woman and the Sea"
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown Beach in England before — a harrowing journey through frigid waters, unpredictable tides, currents...
Wednesday, May. 29, 2024
Review: Director Pablo Berger's "Robot Dreams"
It's one of those strange but immutable truths of the movies that a song like Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" can play in roughly a thousand films before a movie about a dog and a robot comes along and blows them all out of the water. The animated "Robot Dreams" is wordless, so the songs play...
Thursday, May. 23, 2024
Review: Director Richard Linklater's "Hit Man"
For a guy like Glen Powell, the ascent to movie stardom isn't really a question. It's more like an inevitability. Blessed with that square jawline, those bright green eyes, a flop of dirty blonde hair and the kind of symmetrical smile that would seem suspect if it weren't so darn charming, he's a...
Monday, May. 20, 2024
Review: Director George Miller's "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga"
At the beginning of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," we are introduced to a kick-ass woman who rides a horse, then a motorbike, nails a few bad guys with sharpshooting finesse and fights off a mob. But it's not Furiosa — it's her mom. That's one of the oddities of this latest offering in the Mad Max...
Wednesday, May. 15, 2024
Review: Director Pamela Adlon's "Babes"
You know what? It's true. They never do tell you about the placenta. Let us explain. But first, let's also point out that if you're already queasy at the mention of "placenta," well, "Babes" — director Pamela Adlon's brash, chaotic, hilarious and occasionally overly gooey (in so many ways)...
Wednesday, May. 8, 2024
Review: "Gasoline Rainbow," Directed By Bill and Turner Ross
In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross ' latest, "Gasoline Rainbow," five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500 miles to reach the coast for what's been billed as the "End of the World" party. They are like countless young protagonists before them: on the road...
Wednesday, May. 8, 2024
Review: Director Wes Ball's "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes"
Fans of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise may still be mourning the 2017 death of Caesar, the first smart chimp and the charismatic ape leader. Not to worry: He haunts the next episode, the thrilling, visually stunning "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes." We actually start with Caesar's funeral,...
Thursday, May. 2, 2024
Review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Evil Does Not Exist"
The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease and yet anything can happen. Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters become primary ones. People are brought together by mysterious connections. There are even, as in the case of his "Asako I & II," doppelgangers...
Friday, May. 3, 2024
Music & Sound Survey: Concerns Over AI, A Look At Evolving Roles, and Lessons Learned
The gifts that can be derived from listening are significant--particularly when it comes to music and sound. And in that spirit, SHOOT sought out music and audio professionals to gain insights into their roles, how they’ve evolved, lessons learned from challenging projects, and observations...