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Rick and Morty: Seasons 1-4

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/10/2021 11:44 AM EDT
Animation's history can be traced back to the old stone age 3.3 million years ago when cave dwellers would depict people and animals in motion in drawings on cave walls. In the 1600s, shadow play and the magic lantern would spark the imaginations of young and old alike, but it would be another 200 years before the invention of the stroboscopi... Read More

Boogie

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/8/2021 8:33 PM EDT
Through the years there have been tons of sports-related movies. Football, baseball, hockey, basketball…you name it, it has probably been done. Heck, there is even a movie about bobsledding. So, when another sports film heads to theaters, you have to wonder what makes it different from all the rest? The latest endeavor, distribut... Read More

For Heaven's Sake

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/4/2021 4:42 PM EDT
It seems every media company is getting into the "streaming" business and this week Paramount joins that ever-growing list with their new channel, Paramount+. The content will include a library of 2,500 movies and 30,000 television episodes, as well as new content. One of those new endeavors is For Heaven's Sake, a multi-part ... Read More

Coming 2 America

(Alyn Darnay) 3/4/2021 3:27 PM EDT
Let's get this out of the way right from the beginning; I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It's fun, as only Eddie Murphy can deliver it, it's nostalgic, conjuring up the magic the first film brought to us back in the late '80s, and it sticks to its original themes of love, family, and tradition. It's still the acceptable Cinderella story for our mode... Read More

Chaos Walking

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/3/2021 2:35 PM EDT
British – American author Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls) has written several young adult short stories and novels since first being published in 2003. His work has garnered accolades and awards with two novels having been adapted into films and a third into a television series. His latest film, Chaos Walking, follows Todd (Tom Hol... Read More

Horizon Line

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/2/2021 9:41 PM EDT
Hypothetically, what if you found yourself on a small, twin-engine plane without a pilot. Would you know what to do? Would you be able to fly the plane? What if you only had a few, informal lessons? Would it be enough? That is exactly the dilemma Sara (Allison Williams; Get Out) is faced with in the Mikael Marcimain (Call G... Read More

Raya and the Last Dragon

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/1/2021 12:00 PM EDT
Diversity has become a common topic for discussion in the entertainment industry. From "whitewashing" of award nominees and casting movie/television roles with actors of different ethnicities than the characters they are supposed to be portraying. As such, the country is seeing a shift towards more conscious and varied charact... Read More

Tom & Jerry

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/26/2021 8:41 AM EDT
Eighty years ago, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created a cartoon for MGM studios called Tom & Jerry. They wrote 114 short films about the house cat, Tom, and his nemesis, Jerry the mouse. Over the course of eighteen years, Hanna and Barbera but the unlikely duo in all kinds of situations pitting them against each other most of ... Read More

Cherry

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/25/2021 12:11 PM EDT
As the saying goes, "War is hell". While it may seem like a rather trite statement to make, those who have lived through it would probably say it is the truth. Grim memories of watching friends get killed, with all the blood and guts that go along with it, or remembering shooting the enemy, haunt many a soldier. Thought ... Read More

Do The Right Thing

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/22/2021 8:40 PM EDT
What if you watched a movie about poor African Americans living in New York? What if that film depicted growing racial tensions between black people and Italian or Korean shop owners in the neighborhood? What if, after a confrontation between the shop owners and the locals, a young black man was killed by the police which started a riot... Read More