Thursday, Jun. 22, 2023

A powerful, shapeshifting teenage girl and a disgraced knight-in-training suspected of killing a beloved queen are at the heart of " Nimona," a vibrant and irreverent animated adventure set in a futuristic fantasy kingdom.

It is a familiar story — a society governed by ancient rules and a...

Friday, Jun. 16, 2023

One DP picked up his first Emmy nomination in-between lensing this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner and then a recently debuted streaming series that has garnered widespread acclaim.

Another cinematographer successfully took on season five of a lauded series which she’s been a fan of from...

Friday, Jun. 16, 2023

“The times They Are a Changin,” famously wrote Bob Dylan. A contemporary update on those lyrics would additionally reflect that our times are also a-challenging--with labor unrest as exemplified in the writers’ strike, concerns if not outright fear over AI, the quest to attain diversity,...

Thursday, Jun. 15, 2023

Pixar's "Elemental" conjures a diverse metropolis where the elements — fire, water, earth and air — live like ethnicities mostly ghettoized from one other. For fire and water, especially, mingling can be combustible. A bad splash could consume fire; a strong flame could evaporate water. This is...

Thursday, Jun. 15, 2023

Tyler Rake was clinically dead when we last saw him at the end of "Extraction," tumbling over a bridge in Bangladesh with a fatal, burbling bullet wound to his neck. But death is no match for Netflix.

Chris Hemsworth returns as the sad-sack, gun-for-hire Rake in "Extraction 2" and you'll...

Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2023

Wes Anderson gets back to the heart of things in "Asteroid City," a film about grief, performance, storytelling, the cosmos and, well, everything. Or, as one character, a playwright played by Edward Norton, says when asked what his work is about: "It's about infinity and I don't know what else...

Tuesday, Jun. 13, 2023

"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature," went a famous '70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in "The Flash" — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios offering — that it's Father Time one musn't cross. Because trying to change the past can really mess you up when you get back to the...

Wednesday, Jun. 7, 2023

Flamin' Hot Cheetos get an origin story worthy of any Marvel superhero with Hulu's totally engrossing "Flamin' Hot." It's the tale of how a struggling Mexican American janitor came up with the idea of adding spice to the cornmeal, forever saving after-school snacking.

Is it true? Probably...

Thursday, Jun. 1, 2023

"Reality," a new movie starring Sydney Sweeney, is largely set in one empty room. There is nothing on the walls. There are no chairs or rugs, just a stark and ugly room in a nondescript rental property in a downtrodden neighborhood. Its script is as minimalistic — lifted directly from the...

Thursday, Jun. 1, 2023

Let's get this upfront: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" was the best comic-book film of the last decade.

With an animation blizzard blown straight in from the pages of comics, "Into the Spider-Verse" took a supercollider to all the conventions of the superhero movie. Solemnity was out...

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