‘Isle of Dogs’: Quirky, Delightful Mashup

by Sandra Olmsted Director Wes Anderson, who is famous for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, and Fantastic Mr. Fox, combines his quirky storytelling style with that of myths and…

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‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’: Generic Popcorn Spiller

by Sandra Olmsted Although the first installment in this franchise benefitted from having Guillermo del Toro insert his delicious adroitness for monsters into the original, in this new film, director…

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‘A Wrinkle in Time’: Not Since ‘Narnia’

by Sandra Olmsted Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle’s once thought to be “unfilmable” novel, covers much of same ground as the Narnia franchise and…

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The Windy Zeitgeist of Oscar Picking

by Sandra Olmsted Predicting the Oscars is like throwing darts into the future without any inkling of how the winds of zeitgeist will be blowing by the final day that…

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