Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Trolls Band Together Revisits Familiar Characters and Music, a Mild New Entry into the Franchise

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Trolls movies because of the music, and because Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake have such winning personalities to go along with their […]

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Review: In Its Latest Live-Action Adaptation, Disney Drains The Little Mermaid of All Its Magic, Charm

The 1989 animated feature film The Little Mermaid ushered in a new golden era of Disney’s storied animation legacy. A sanitized version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable about a […]

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Review: DC League of Super-Pets Is a Lighthearted, Animal-Filled Entry to the Superhero Genre

How is it possible that some of my favorite DC movies of late have been their animated offerings? Four years ago, we were treated to Teen Titans GO! To the […]

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Review: Satire and Terror Make for Quite the Pair in Velvet Buzzsaw

Like many die-hard film fans, I was sad to miss Sundance Film Festival this year. It marks the start of a new year of films we’ll be talking about through […]

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Review: Creative Duo Crafts Heartbreaking, Uplifting Story of Change in Blindspotting

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At its heart, Blindspotting is a film by and about friends. Longtime music collaborators and Oakland natives Daveed Diggs (best known for his Tony-award-winning dual role in Hamilton) and poet […]

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Interview: Blindspotting Creative Duo On Oakland, Finding a Director and the Ten Years to the Big Screen

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Musicians, poets, actors, and general creative types Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have been working on-and-off on the screenplay for Blindspotting for somewhere around 10 years—long before Diggs got involved […]

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