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...
‘Lion’ Is National Geographic’s Breathtaking, Irresistible Wildlife Epic
There are wildlife documentaries that educate you about animals, and then there are wildlife documentaries that make you emotionally invest in one. National Geographic’s Lion does the latter — spectacularly. The four-part series follows Kio, a lion born in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, from a vulnerable little cub into a powerful young male fighting for the chance to establish his own kingdom. Filmed over more than four years and nearly 1,400...
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...
‘Lanterns’ Brings Green Lantern Back to Earth — And Finds the Humanity Beneath the Ring
For a superhero franchise that has spent decades reaching for the stars, Lanterns takes a surprisingly down-to-earth approach. HBO Max’s new series, which premiered August 16, drops Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart into the dusty expanses of Nebraska, where a murder mystery gives way to something even more compelling: a deeply human story about two very different men learning how to work together. The series comes from...
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