Saturday, April 20, 2024
Superhero movies are at their peak now, and in this age of sprawling, interconnected movie universes is missing something: the end. Free from the constraints of setting up the next film in the franchise or worrying if an actor doesn’t want to return to the role, “Logan” is allowed […]
ldquo;The Jungle Book” and “Cinderella” were successful remixes of their animated counterparts, but the task of reimagining those films doesn’t compare to that of “Beauty and the Beast.” The original 1991 film is as perfect as the Disney formula could ever achieve. While “The Lion King” may have it beat […]
See other reviews: Beauty and the Beast Logan The Belko Experiment “Spider-Man 3” Retrospective: Re-Examining a Superhero Epic 10 Years Later Before the Marvel and DC cinematic universes were born, there was the “Spider-Man” trilogy. Directed by Sam Raimi (“Evil Dead,” “Darkman,” “Drag Me to Hell”), the first three “Spider-Man” […]
Music and garbage have changed the lives of a group of Paraguayan adolescents. The group, called the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, play instruments made completely out of garbage. The director, Favio Chavez, began making instruments out of materials found in the landfill that surrounds their homes in the city of […]
Musicians John Rutter, Evan Spurlock, and Tyler Aukerman play jazz music during the beginning of the event. Monroe County's One Book One Community started with smooth instrumental jazz. Every year the community chooses a book to read together, and this year's choice is "Station Eleven." The OBOC committee then plans […]
Out of any comic book character in existence, Batman’s history is the most fascinating. In comics, he started out as a murderer before being revamped into a hero who condemns killing. His stories have fluctuated from being light-hearted, cheesy romps to dark, gritty exercises that pushed the envelope of what […]
The March 15 kickoff of Monroe’s One Book, One Community program will feature a presentation of Shakespeare in the Meyer Theater. The novel chosen for 2017, “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel, is set in a post-apocalyptic Michigan. It features a troupe of Shakespearean actors and musicians struggling to […]
2016 will certainly go down as one of the more fascinating years for film. It was a year of alternating highs and lows. As is typical, January was terrible, but there was noticeable uptick in quality come February. And then it all crashed and burned when summer rolled around with […]
Walking out of “Arrival,” one of the many thoughts running through my head was that it felt like a spiritual successor to Robert Wise’s 1951 film, “The Day The Earth Stood Still.” The films are similar in that they are both stories of first contact and focus squarely on the […]
ldquo;It isn’t about you,” is a line The Ancient One imparts onto Stephen Strange at a critical point in the film, “Doctor Strange.” Most superhero origins are built on this guideline. An ordinary individual with not much stake in the grand scheme of things is granted special abilities, most of […]
