It’s been a tragic end to 2016, so as we contemplate the sorrowful loss of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, among others, let’s try to look forward to 2017. In this week’s “So what happens to Princess Leia?” story, director Colin Trevorrow and producer Kathleen Kennedy have had a sit-down to discuss what is to…
DetailsA Monster Calls, and you should answer. This is a really wonderful film about how a young boy deals with his mother battling a terminal illness. And in retrospect, maybe it reminded me a little of how I dealt with my parents divorce. I definitely found certain parallels between myself and Conor, played by a…
DetailsHey, it’s an abbreviated holiday edition of random film type news! Short and sweet, shall we say? In this week’s “Oh crap” story, actress Carrie Fisher had a significant heart attack while flying from London to Los Angeles. She is currently in critical condition in an L.A. hospital, and is on a ventilator for assisted…
DetailsLa La Land arrives with a lot of hype. If you’re in the business of Oscar prognostication, it’s in a 50/50 race for Best Picture with the very different kettle of fish Moonlight. (Neither of these, of course, might come to pass; momentum could easily arise for such bigger fare as Sully, Arrival, Fences, Live By Night or the tiny…
DetailsOffice Christmas Party is about an office Christmas Party. It’s the Chicago branch, part of a larger corporation with headquarters in New York. The founder of the company is dead; his daughter Carol (Jennifer Aniston) is now the CEO while son (and younger brother) Clay (T.J. Miller from Silicon Valley) runs Chicago. She’s uptight and awful and not…
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