Ridley Scott’s ‘The Dog Stars’ Deserves to be Discovered
Just because it’s not burning up the box office does not mean that The Dog Stars is not worth seeing. In fact, the opposite may be true: this is precisely the kind of movie that can get lost in the noise of bigger studio releases, even though it offers something increasingly rare — a thoughtful, beautifully acted adult drama that takes its time and trusts its audience. Based on Peter Heller’s acclaimed 2012 novel, The Dog Stars...
‘Coyote vs. Acme:’ The Looney Tune That Refused to Be Squashed by a Big Corporation
For a movie about a cartoon character who spends his life falling off cliffs, getting blown up, flattened and otherwise humiliated by his own ill-fated schemes, Coyote vs. Acme has had a remarkably similar journey. The live-action/animated comedy was completed in 2022, only to become one of Hollywood’s most notorious casualties of corporate accounting. Warner Bros. decided in 2023 to shelve the roughly $70 million production and take...
Locations Take Center Stage at 13th Annual LMGI Awards as ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Pluribus’ Take Top Honors
There was a certain irony to Fritz Coleman hosting the 13th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards Saturday night at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Coleman spent 40 years working at the same location — NBC Los Angeles — but on this night, the former KNBC weatherman was celebrating the people whose job it is to constantly search for the next great place to tell a story. Before a receptive crowd of roughly...
‘One Night Only’–Sleep Would be Preferable
There are bad movies, there are boring movies, and then there are movies like One Night Only—films that seem almost determined to test the patience of anyone stuck in a theater seat for the duration. The title promises urgency, intimacy and perhaps a little danger. What it delivers is a painfully manufactured exercise in cinematic déjà vu, in which virtually every scene feels like a setup for something interesting that never actually...
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Swings But Rarely Soars
After years of multiverse spectacle and increasingly high-stakes superhero storytelling, Spider-Man: Brand New Day deliberately scales things back. The latest chapter in Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ blockbuster franchise, now in wide release, positions Peter Parker for a fresh start following the emotional events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, opting for a more grounded, street-level adventure. It’s a welcome change,...
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