Monthly Archives: November 2018

It’s a fangirl/fanboy magnet based on a graphic novel/manga, just in time for Valentine’s day. So naturally the digital teen girl created for it has “big anime eyes.” Rose Salazar voice-acted (and motion captured?) the title role. With Oscar winners … Continue reading →

“The Office” actor wasn’t a star on a series that produced several of them, but Paul Lieberstein is following in John Krasinski’s footsteps by writing, directed and starring in his own vehicle. “Song of Back and Neck” has Lieberstein playing … Continue reading →

Ansel Elgort makes subtle work of Every Actor’s Dream, the chance to play two characters in the same movie, in “Jonathan.” It’s a downbeat and curious sci-fi drama about a young man whose identical twin wasn’t so much in the … Continue reading →

Love the music. Judy Collins singing  “Both Sides Now.” But this teaser doesn’t do anything to tease, really, the “Toy Story” movie that Disney-Pixar decided to made after the warm, dire, face-death-and-oblivion-itself send-off of “Toy Story 3.” Whatever you want … Continue reading →

The great Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón has made a long, sprawling and semi-autobiographical movie memoir for Netflix, filmed in black and white and titled “Roma” in homage to Federico Fellini, the Italian master of the personal, the wry and the … Continue reading →

It’s a story as old as, well, shovels. Wherever there’s something valuable under the ground, somebody will figure out a way to dig it up. Prospectors will find it, miners will get at it. And wherever there are prospectors, there … Continue reading →

First off, though, they REALLY needed a more original title than “Zoo.” Seriously. Check out IMDb’s listings for that title.  Anyway, after a little hunting, the proper link to the film this trailer comes from is here.  It played the … Continue reading →

Filmed not too far from me, in the swamps and C-movie horror haven of Mount Dora, Florida. And Oakland Park and Miami. My first thought on glancing at the trailer was, “Is this Australia?” Odd accents abound in “Crocodylus.” January … Continue reading →

But yeah, it’s “Fellini-esque,” or promises to be. Plainly the inspiration for it, and thus its title, comes from Federico.  This black and white personal epic (growing up in Mexico City and environs in the ’70s) looks expensive, but it … Continue reading →

In the documentary “Every Act of Life,” the playwright Terrence McNally admits “my work never gave me pleasure before the last couple of years.” To which any fan of the theater might spit up her chablis, sputter in his espresso. … Continue reading →