‘Elio’ is a Trippy Journey to Another Universe
Just about every human being on the planet can relate to the feelings of Elio, the title character in Disney Pixar’s new animated film opening nationwide June 20. Elio feels misunderstood, unloved, lonely, weird and wants to get away from it all. Far, far away—to another planet. In Elio, a young boy who has been recently orphaned and lives with his aunt Olga, an Air Force colonel whose dreams of becoming an astronaut have been put on...
‘The Life of Chuck’ is a Soulful Look at an Ordinary Existence
Stirring, Heartbreaking, Mysterious. These are some of the words that come to mind after seeing The Life of Chuck, based on a Stephen King story. King is practically synonymous with words like fear, dread, and horror and this adaptation of his work is about the furthest you can get from those frightening emotions. It’s a celebration of life, told in three chapters in reverse chronological order with the mystery of who is Charles Kranz...
The High Stakes at Emmy FYC Campaign Events to Score Votes
From the Museum of Modern Art to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and prestigious venues in between, Emmy voters have been offered a banquet of For Your Consideration events over the past three months. Networks, streamers and studios have been pulling out all the stops to win their votes during this first round of balloting before the nominations are announced July 15. Some events are very successful, others not so much. Points...
LGBTQ+ Celebration of Cinema and Television Honors Trailblazers Including Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang and Niecy Nash-Betts
There wasn’t a better way to kick off the first weekend of Pride Month than at the 2nd annual Critic Choice LGBTQ+ Celebration of Cinema and Television. The festive fete at the Fairmont Century Plaza recognized more than a dozen performers and producers whose work has served to shine a light on a wide range of LGBTQ+ experiences. Actor and standup comedian Sherry Cola, who emceed last year’s inaugural celebration, returned to host the...
Funny AF (as Foxx) at the Netflix is a Joke Festival
To see Jamie Fox strutting his stuff and telling jokes on stage at the iconic Comedy Store in Los Angeles, you would never know this was a man who only recently recovered from a severe stroke that almost left him for dead. Yet the Oscar winning actor-musician-comedian, who was felled during a movie shoot in Atlanta in 2023 and spent months hospitalized there, seemed to be better than ever: more physical, more focused, more funny. He...
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