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The Best Supporting Performances of 2016
If there's a repeat of #OscarsSoWhite when the nominations get announced next month, we'll know the Trump voters have taken over the Academy, because...
Jason Headley Breaks In
Comedy has been a passion for Jason Headley. Before 2015, he had written, directed, and starred in a number of comedy short films, some...
Aladdin: When You Wish
What kinds of roles do actors of Middle Eastern descent play? Either they’re terrorists or they’re virtuous souls who suffer from terrorism, violence, prejudice,...
Frankenweenie: Ghost Dog
Expanded from the same 1984 short film that got Tim Burton fired as a Disney animator, Frankenweenie (which Burton has made under Disney’s auspices,...
Film Shorts // January 13-19, 2021
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American Skin (R) Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation) stars in and directs this drama as a Black man seeking revenge on the...
Housing Balloon
The best part of Pixar's new movie Up comes early on. The film starts with its main character, Carl Fredericksen, as a little boy...
Sea The Pirates!
Like Disney-Pixar, the folks at Aardman know family-friendly comedy. The British stop-action animation company won an Oscar in 2005 for Wallace & Gromit: The...
Bonus Film Review: The Mermaid
Big movies tend to come out in the Far East around Chinese New Year, and the recent festivities included the likes of Kung Fu...
Film Shorts // October 12-18, 2022
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All Quiet on the Western Front (R) Felix Kammerer stars in this adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel about a young German soldier seeing...
The Year in Music Documentaries
I noticed an unusual number of good music documentaries this year, and I thought I’d post about them before I posted my list of...
