On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new horror/murder-mystery, Longlegs (out now in theaters), and the new time-travel romance, The Greatest Hits (on Hulu and Disney+). Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new music documentaries streaming on Disney+: The Beach Boys and Let It Be. Continue reading
Few cinematic forms benefited from the advent of digital technology like the documentary. And not just in cost and access to equipment but in the proliferation of digital archives directors can draw upon. Add social media’s connective power to track … Continue reading THE BEACH BOYS and LET IT BE
They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school, and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail: When it’s time to go to work, dear old Dad puts on his S.S. uniform and … Continue reading Hollywood Gate Crashers: International Movies Shine with the 2024 Oscar Nominations
Movies are most often windows to what is and what was. But sometimes, they’re windows to what could be. And it doesn’t have to be in a grand sense either. Take Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer/director/star Cooper Raiff’s sophomore effort, for starters. About … Continue reading Things to Come: Dispatches from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
They needn’t have bothered. Jungle Cruise, Disney’s latest live-action cinematic adaptation of a theme park ride, was already a classic Hollywood adventure before it became a pun-laden excursion down African and Asian rivers. That movie was 1951’s The African Queen, the key … Continue reading JUNGLE CRUISE
Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) has always searched for a family. First discarded, then abandoned, Natasha was raised as a brainwashed assassin, manipulated by the duplicitous Dreykov (Ray Winstone), a man who was seemingly everywhere without anyone ever noticing. Funny, with … Continue reading BLACK WIDOW
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Sparks Brothers (now in theaters). Not enough? Click here for reviews of Luca (now playing Disney+ and the El Capitan Theatre in Los … Continue reading
Luca is a lot like other boys. He doesn’t care much for his chores, his parents are a bore, and most of his days are spent dreaming of a magical place where life is beautiful and everything is sweet. He … Continue reading LUCA
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