Wonka
Musical prequel manages to find the sweet spot between the wicked psychedelia of the original Willy Wonka and the feel-good delights of the director’s Paddington movies.
Read MorePosted by Alonso Duralde | Dec 4, 2023 | Spotlight |
Musical prequel manages to find the sweet spot between the wicked psychedelia of the original Willy Wonka and the feel-good delights of the director’s Paddington movies.
Read MorePosted by Alonso Duralde | Dec 2, 2023 | Spotlight |
More a retrospective documentary than a traditional concert film, this souvenir of Beyoncé’s recent smash tour will delight fans who want a peek behind the scenes even as those peeks occasionally distract from the artist’s extraordinary stagecraft.
Read MorePosted by Alonso Duralde | Nov 27, 2023 | Spotlight |
What was clearly designed to be a victory lap for Disney’s 100th anniversary will be mostly forgotten by the time the studio turns 101.
Read MorePosted by Alonso Duralde | Nov 15, 2023 | Spotlight |
While this sumptuously mounted production delivers as a sweeping war epic, one hopes Ridley Scott’s promised director’s cut will fill in the emotional and historical blanks.
Read MorePosted by Alonso Duralde | Nov 9, 2023 | Spotlight |
This tedious, overlong prequel sheds little new light on the Hunger Games universe, although Viola Davis and Jason Schwartzman camp it up with gusto.
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