Tag: Netflix
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Production Designer and Lead Character Designer Lindsey Olivares Interview: The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Welcome Lindsey Olivares to chat about specificity in design, the art of caricature, clarity in comedy, and production and character designing for The Mitchells vs. The Machines. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Mitchells vs the Machines From the humans who brought you the Academy Award®-winning Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The LEGO…
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Review: GameStop: Rise of the Players, The Afterparty, and The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Unfortunately unless you were part of the ride, GameStop: Rise of the Players might leave you more confused than when you started watching. Also this week brings a pair of whodunit satires with The Afterparty on Apple TV+ and the cumbersomely titled The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the…
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Review: Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Peacemaker, and Cheer Season 2
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is relentlessly zany and we’re not sure who it’s for. Peacemaker is committed to chaotic absurdity and Cheer Season 2 on Netflix takes place in a much darker world than season 1, but does it retain it’s joy? Listen on Apple Podcasts. More about Hotel Transylvania: Transformania: Drac and the Pack are…
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Review: Don’t Look Up, The King’s Man, The Lost Daughter, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Beanie Mania, and Single’s Inferno
Awards deadlines approach so it’s a supersized episode for the last reviews of 2021! Don’t Look Up, The Lost Daughter, and The Tragedy of Macbeth are all vying hard for accolades. The King’s Man doesn’t seem to be vying for anything (including logic). As for some lighter fare there’s also the Beanie Baby documentary Beanie…
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Directors Clare Knight and Harry Cripps Interview: Back to the Outback
Welcome directors Clare Knight and Harry Cripps for their new animated Australian adventure, Back to the Outback. We discuss moving from editorial or writing to directing, common misconceptions, and spooky creatures. More about Back to the Outback: A ragtag group of the world’s deadliest creatures – and one cute but utterly obnoxious koala – escape…
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Review: The Power of the Dog, Wolf, and Try Harder!
Jane Campion brings us Benedict Cumberbatch in chaps in The Power of the Dog. George MacKay channels his inner canis lupus in Wolf. Finally get ready to relive your college admissions trauma through the students of Lowell High in the incredibly watchable Try Harder!. More about The Power of the Dog: Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank…
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Review: House of Gucci, Bruised, The Humans, and Hawkeye (Spoiler Free)
Itsa me! House of Gucci! Lady Gaga serves us camp to the max. Though was that the filmmakers intention? Probably not… Also Halle Berry makes her directorial debut with Bruised. If you’re missing family drama for Thanksgiving, The Humans might fill that chaotic hole in your heart. Plus does Hawkeye hit its target? You can…
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife, King Richard, and tick, tick… BOOM!
This week is all about tributes that might get too tangled up with their reverence for the source material or subjects with: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, King Richard, and tick, tick… BOOM! You can also listen on Apple Podcasts More about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: From director Jason Reitman and producer Ivan Reitman, comes the next chapter in the…
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Review: Red Notice and Passing
Three of the biggest stars in the world (The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot) feature in Red Notice so what could go wrong…?! Also Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson give us two different sides of the Black experience in Passing. More about Red Notice: When an Interpol-issued Red Notice — the highest level warrant…