Thought if anyone could make the smack-addled writings of William S Burrows romantic it would have to be Luca Guadagnino, but alas.
Month: November 2024
In Moana 2 Disney does right by their strongest “princess”
Moana 2 feels like a natural extension to the first. Better yet, the the storyline is even more focused on Moana because Maui is tied up again (literally and figuratively) in a trap keeping him from seeing his precious humans for the first half-ish of the film. While I love his personality, the charm and comedic timing he adds to the narrative, he should (and is) a supporting role to help our lead find her way.
The slow burning intesity and heartbreak of Maria swallows you whole
Maria Callas, a world-renowned opera singer, had an incredible and enduring effect on anyone who witnessed her power and talent. She was also a force to be reckoned with off stage with very little patience for the inane.
Seattle filmmaker Vee Hua is hoping to turn their short film Reckless Spirits into a feature, and needs your help
Tuesday night, me and a bunch of cooler, hipper people, packed into the Northwest Film Forum for the launch party of a fundraising campaign for Reckless Spirits, a very funny short film from 2022 that the filmmakers hope to turn into a feature film in the future. Directed by former NWFF executive director Vee Hua 華婷婷, the film is billed as “A gender-fluid Latine performance artist and a neurotic Asian American therapist are led by a series of uncanny circumstances into a world of chakras, spirits, and a fanatic cult leader.”
Wicked is determined to be the crowd-pleasingest musical in the Emerald City, and beyond
It’s taken a long time, maybe twenty years, to get an adaptation of the popular novel by Gregory Maguire and more popular musical Wicked into theaters, and after seeing the film over the past weekend, it appears to be well worth the wait.
Are you not entertained by Gladiator II? It depends
Gladiator II (2024 | USA/United Kingdom | 148 minutes | Ridley Scott) Director Ridley Scott’s Gladiator became a stealth box-office smash back in …
With a quartet of flashy performances and musical numbers Emilia Pérez makes its splash on Netflix
To its enormous credit and occasional detriment, Jacques Audiard’s improbable musical is as mercurial as its title drug kingpin-to-society queen would-be heroine. With something new every few minutes the boldly ambitious film succeeds in never being boring while it has an enormous amount to say (sing).
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin shine in Sundance standout A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are terrifically paired as an anxiety bundle and his charismatic chaos monster cousin.
Hugh Grant serves up heebies and jeebies, along with a blueberry pie, in Heretic
It’s like Psycho with Mormons. That should be the tagline.