Little Witch Academia and The Worst Witch It’s hard to imagine two television series that have so many story elements in common, and yet differ so wildly, then the two children’s series, The Worst Witch and the animated Little Witch Academia. Both are situated in a learning facility for teaching magic to female tweeners. Both …
Greenland Directed by Ric Roman Waugh Produced by Gerard Butler, Basil Iwanyk, Sébastien Raybaud, Alan Siegel Written by Chris Sparling Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis Music by David Buckley Cinematography Dana Gonzales Edited by Gabriel Fleming Production companies Thunder Road, Anton, G-Base Distributed by STX Films …
Soul Directed by Pete Docter Produced by Dana Murray Written by Pete Docter, Mike Jones, & Kemp Powers Starring Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, & Angela Bassett Music by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, & Jon Batiste Cinematography Matt Aspbury & Ian Megibben Edited …
The Undoing Created by David E. Kelley Based on You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz Written by David E. Kelley Directed by Susanne Bier Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Édgar Ramírez, Noah Jupe, Lily Rabe, Matilda De Angelis, Ismael Cruz, Córdova, Edan Alexander, Michael Devine, Donald Sutherland Music by Evgueni Galperine and Sacha …
The Trouble With Peace A while back, I did a review of Joe Abercrombie’s A Little Hatred. the first book in his new Age of Madness trilogy. It was the first work of fantasy by a heretofore unknown writer to absolutely wow me since the 1980s, when I encountered Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series. Abercrombie’s writing …
Trickster Created by Michelle Latimer & Tony Elliott Based on Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Directed by Michelle Latimer Starring Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Anna Lambe Take a disaffected high school boy with a messed-up home life and few prospects. Have him discover one day that he has special powers that …
The Planets Genre Documentary Executive producer Andrew Cohen Producer Gideon Bradshaw Editor Louise Salkow Production companies BBC Studios, with Nova and WGBH Boston, co-produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures Directed by Stephen Cooter & Martin Johnson Presented by Brian Cox (UK version) Narrated by Zachary Quinto (U.S. version) There’s two versions of the BBC/Nova joint production …
Utopia Note: Since I plan to discuss the nature of the conspiracy that is central to the story only read to the double line and no further if you don’t want any plot spoilers. Created by Dennis Kelly Based on An original idea by Huw Kennair-Jones, Mark Aldridge, & Clare McDonald Written by Dennis Kelly …
Brothers Young at heart: a review of Power Up AC/DC You don’t really expect much from a band that had its breakout hit back in 1973. Most bands from that era are long gone, and it you mention them to anyone under the age of twenty five, you’ll get an eye roll, or worse, a …
The Oath Directed by Ike Barinholtz Produced by Ike Barinholtz, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Andrew C. Robinson, David Stassen Written by Ike Barinholtz Starring Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish, Nora Dunn, Chris Ellis, Jon Barinholtz, Meredith Hagner, Carrie Brownstein, Billy Magnussen, John Cho There’s two reasons a satirical movie might fail to gain popular approval. The …