Animal secrets: dog tail-wagging, sick flies, fish eyelids, cat whiskers, and the loss of songbirds
Matthew Alice even ponders animals' morning sickness
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Kid stuff
Children abide (or don’t) in this week’s new movie releases, including The Florida Project and Goodbye Christopher Robin
It’s tough being a kid, especially when Mom is an unemployed stripper. Or a suicidal lover. Or something of a child herself. And then there’s Dad — you know, the distant guy who pushes you ...
From minx to hellcat
The Florida Project: A different sort of Disney movie
“My soul is humbled when I see the way little ones accept their lot,” says Mrs. Cooper at the end of Night of the Hunter. “Lord save little children. The wind blows and the rains ...
Movie multiplicity
Lots of new movie releases, including The Foreigner and Trophy
Suffering Sappho! There certainly are a lot of new movie releases this week! (Yes, that’s Wonder Woman’s catchphrase, chosen in honor of the Wonder Woman origin story biopic Professor Marston & the Wonder Women.) And ...
Consider the lowbrow Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
A brisk, brusque, bloody, bawdy Italian cheapie
That thundering synthesized flop you hear is Blade Runner 2049 coming in well below industry expectations; guess you people don’t have much use for highbrow, three-hour sci-fi epics that are long on scenery and short ...
The trials and triumphs of women, synthetic and otherwise
This week’s new movie releases include Blade Runner 2049, The Queen of Spain, and The Mountain Between Us
Ryan Gosling may be at the center of Blade Runner 2049, but he’s surrounded by women: his boss at the police station, his opposite number on the corporate side of the investigation, his digital girlfriend, ...
John Carroll Lynch's new film, Harry Dean Stanton’s last
Lucky’s actor-turned-director on Stanton’s last stand
“You’re not likely to get a one-word answer out of me,” laughed the as-a-rule loquacious John Carroll Lynch. Lucky marks the actor’s first time behind the camera — directing Harry Dean Stanton in what turned ...
We’ll never be royals...
...but we can watch them on screen in this week’s new releases, including The King’s Choice and Victoria and Abdul
Royals: they’re just like us! King Haakon VII of Norway liked to play hide and seek with his grandchildren and even pretended to have conversations with his grandson’s teddy bear! I mean, he also had ...
Year by the Sea seems a lot longer
A goopy, by-the-numbers women’s picture
Year by the Sea only feels like a decade. Karen Allen takes the lead in the big-screen adaptation of Joan Anderson’s best-selling memoir, and while the tagline promises, “It’s never too late to reclaim your ...
I really wanted to use a live cat
Director Charlie Bean gives background of Lego Ninjago Movie
At the Lego Ninjago Movie press conference held last week at Legoland Carlsbad, a child asked the film’s assembled cast and crew, “What happened to the cat?” The tot was referring to the monstrous beast ...
Anne Frank in the attic
Local Matt Sivertson’s first feature, Love All You Have Left
A private message arrived from local actress (and new Facebook friend) Caroline Amiguet asking that I attend this Friday’s screening of her husband Matt Sivertson’s first feature, Love All You Have Left, in which she ...
Here It comes
Horror flick heads up this week’s new movie releases
It is out, but is It good? Well...there are good bits. But it doesn’t touch Get Out as the year’s best horror flick. Because the real horror is the evil that men do. The monster ...
