Daily Archives: June 13, 2024

Movie Review: An Animated dip into Puberty, “Inside Out 2”

Pixar’s “Inside Out” was an Oscar-winning “return to form” for the pioneering CGI animation house back in 2015, a film that found heart in attempting to visualize the emotions that guide us through childhood and make us the adults we … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Damon and Casey Affleck are “The Instigators” in Apple’s new caper comedy

Ving Rhames as a cop, Ron Perlman as the mayor of beantown, with Alfred Molina, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jack Harlow and Paul Walter Hauser.   Two desperate guys too old to be leading “a criminal conspiracy” like this, one of them in … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Erana James is one of the New Zealand misfit girls exiled to an island “reformatory” — “We Were Dangerous”

This 1950s period piece looks chilling, heartbreaking and uplifting. I can’t easily find any reference to the history this film may be remembering. Maori reform school? Something broader that took in “problem” girls from any race and class? And “cured” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Netflix goes anime for its Imaginary Friend Fantasy — “The Imaginary”

Everybody has the same idea, cinematically, all at once. “IF” and “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” and “Imaginary” and now a Netflix anime story about an imaginary…Roger? Do tell? Looks lovely. Kid friendly. And possibly insipid. July 7.

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