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Moana: Second Wave
Disney’s Moana 2 begins with our heroine (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho) now a full-fledged wayfinder of her tribe who’s tasked with finding other inhabited...
Gladiator: Fight On
I didn’t have the highest hopes for Ridley Scott’s sequel to Gladiator. Granted, I enjoyed his 2000 Roman epic, but his sequels to Alien were...
Film Shorts // November 27 – December 3, 2024
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Heavier Trip (NR) This Finnish comedy is about a heavy-metal band that has to break out of prison to play a major music festival....
Wicked: Fo’ Shiz
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard that they were breaking up the film version of Wicked into two movies. Like most Broadway musicals...
Film Shorts // November 20-26, 2024
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All We Imagine As Light (NR) The winner of the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this Indian drama stars Kani Kusruti as...
Emilia Pérez: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Trans musicals are officially a thing now. For years, Hedwig and the Angry Inch had the field to itself. Since then, it’s been joined...
Real Pain: Polonaise
I wasn’t all that impressed with Jesse Eisenberg’s directing debut, the teen drama When You Finish Saving the World. His second movie as director,...
Film Shorts // November 13-19, 2024
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Albany Road (PG-13) This drama stars Renée Elise Goldsberry as a woman forced to share a ride with her ex-fiancé’s mother (Lynn Whitfield). Also...
Memoir of a Snail: Shelled
We need to have a moratorium on movie protagonists named Grace. To be clear, I have nothing against that name per se. It’s a...
Heretic: American Pie
A couple of decades ago, I was growing impatient with Hugh Grant. I found him guilty of giving the same bumbling, stammering performance in...
