There’s perhaps no better director in the world at understanding of children and families than Hirokazu Kore-eda. Over the last decade plus he’s explored those concepts in films like I WISH, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, AFTER THE STORM, and SHOPLIFTERS. And that brings us to the latest, MONSTER, which brings some new wrinkles to the […]
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Women’s sports are having a moment right now with the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament outperforming the Men’s tournament in many ways. Which makes THE HERRICANES remarkably topical, looking back at some of the earliest days of women’s sports in a sport that’s still very much considered a man’s game. It’s been a remarkable journey in
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“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.” ― Werner Herzog We’ll leave Jean-Luc Godard out of it, but there’s definitely something to Werner Herzog’s quote above. There’s something pure about a kung fu movie, athletic men (and sometimes women) in motion, exotic weapons, and
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Back in 2021, THE DRY emerged as a big hit in Australia and managed some play in the United States as something of a festival darling. It played within the framework of what dark secrets a small town may hold amid a long drought that left the surroundings a tinderbox ready to turn into a
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After the pandemic and its drawn out aftermath, the Milwaukee Film Festival soldiered on and has returned to its non-virtual roots with an impressive lineup of films. I don’t know if we’ll ever return to pre-Covid normalcy, but this seems to be a sense of a new normal. Last night was the gala opening on
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Robert, Nat, and Cody are pleased to have on Michael Lyons of Dis-Order: Every Disney Film and From Pencils to Pixels: The Animation Celebration Podcast to discuss the animation / live action mix Invention for Destruction a.k.a. The Fabulous World of Jules Verne on this episode. Invention for Destruction is the creation of the Czech
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