@Courtesy of Pramount + After a first season realized with undeniable depth and a second that instead leaned lazily on what had been produced earlier, the TV series created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon and produced for Paramount +, lifts its artistic fortunes with a third season that returns to the narrative strength of…
Las Vegas, showgirls and Pamela Anderson. One can easily imagine this film to be filled with sparkle, glitter, neon signs and energetic dancing, perhaps a sibling film to Paul Verhoeven‘s “Showgirls” (1995). But Gia Coppola‘s “Palo Alto” (2013), latest film is everything but. This is a dreamy and intimate character study of a veteran Las…
There’s a popular expression which describes how it’s impossible to look away from a car crash. No one wants to be the victim, and a combination of horror and genuine curiosity often lead to increased traffic around the site of an accident as drivers slow to see what could have happened to them but instead…
The home in which a person is raised can have a strong effect on building character. Positive role models and attentive parents may produce a child who is well-behaved and capable, though potentially less used to doing things on their own if too much is done for them. When there isn’t someone who is putting…
© A Saban Films release. Photo courtesy of Ralph Bavaro. As The 4:30 Movie opens, a teenaged boy is seen trying to arrange a date by calling his female inamorata on a clunky push-button landline. It is the summer of 1986, that antediluvian era before cellphones and social media had become the instruments of choice for…
©Courtesy of Crunchyroll Joining a Japanese pop “idol” group is almost like enlisting in the military. There is constant practice, a rigid chain of command, and a strict code of conduct—but absolutely no boyfriends allowed. Yet, aspiring idols continue to dream of fans’ adulation. Kazumi Takayama would know. The “graduate” of the powerhouse female idol…
Returning home after a long time away with no communication is always uncomfortable. In the age of cell phones and emails, not being in touch feels like a deliberate choice, but in the time of the Trojan War long before the advent of modern technology, failure to send word was considerably more excusable. Literature fans…
Not all relationships are built to last. People can also change over time and want and need different things than they did at first. If everyone involved pays attention and alters their behavior appropriately, everything should work out, but if the effort is only one-way, it may be doomed to fail. Millers in Marriage checks…
In Universal and Blumhouse’s new horror film, Speak No Evil, two families meet while on vacation in Italy and immediately hit it off, leading to a trip to England’s West country where things begin to get quite dark. Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy play an American couple living in London with their daughter Agnes (Alix…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Momo Ayase and her “Okarun” classmate are both simultaneously like Mulder and Scully of The X-Files. He ardently believes in UFO phenomenon, but remains skeptical of ghosts. Conversely, she completely accepts the supernatural, but scoffs at the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors. They will dissuade each other of their disbeliefs, in the most…
The relationship between a parent and a child is something that can be truly influential, whether for good or bad. The absence of that bond, for whatever reason, can be equally damaging. For the child, they may think they have been abandoned but never actually understand the circumstances that prohibited them from having contact, while…
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