Lila Prime

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

I enjoyed the all-video chat performance of Gianni Schicchi by Opera Ithaca . It's a quick, cute comedic opera, so having it set as a fa...

The Favorite is a movie that tells the (fictionalized, edited) story of a snippet of the life of Queen Anne (of England) and two ladies who...

Any fool attempting to see the Incredibles 2 movie this weekend quickly found that it was sold out, hours in advance, at all internet-ticke...

I know what you're thinking. You're wondering, "what can I watch and listen to to better imitate Lila in thought, action, and d...

Carol tells the story of a woman (the titular Carol) who meets another woman (Therese); they strike up a friendship and go on a car trip. T...

I went to see Deadpool with no background knowledge of the comic books on which it was based. The trailers and billboards playing around P...

Some translations are inexplicable. I  thought, foolishly I now see, that Darth Vader was a fictional character whose two-word referent wa...

I laughed aloud at  Caity Weaver's summary of the movie : You might be thinking, “Surely the weapon has shields, to protect it from su...

No spoilers: It was cute, with the expected (large) amount of fan-service, call-backs, and foreshadowing of predictable events. The villain ...

Le Tout Nouveau Testament ( The Brand New Testament ) is a film nicely established by its first line: "God is real, and he lives in Br...

The latest in Pixar's endless emotion-tugging animated films "for kids" (but with lots of material for grown-ups) is Inside Ou...

Mad Max: nonsensical subtitle was exactly as advertised. The ads show: a handful of characters, sand, guns, cars/trucks/explosions, grit, di...

Shaun le mouton  is a clever little lamb,the clear bellwether of his flock and a clever manipulator of human and canine mental states. He mo...

I saw " Only God Forgives ." It was a wretched non-movie. The blurb describing it as an "ultra-violent revenge saga" is...

Now You See Me was slick, shiny, sparkly... produced within an inch of its life. It had no plot to speak of, except in tones of aggravation...

Racism is bad. We all agree on that. I want to mention two leisure activities --- the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the movi...

One postdoc deadline is past and so I took a break and got around to watching Looper . I thought it was nice. The recursive nature of time...

I saw Brave , the latest Disney-Pixar animated movie. It was delightful . Just take a look at this trailer: Do you see it? Can you guess wha...

Apparently, at some point in the past, Marvel figured out that they could get more mileage (money) from their fan base by recombining existi...