The mockingly titled “Luck” marks the inauspicious return of John Lasseter, the previous Pixar Animation chief who was ousted in 2017 from the corporate he co-founded over allegations of inappropriate office habits. Now he’s again at Skydance Animation, serving as head of the animation and a producer on “Luck,” which is streaming on Apple TV+….
Day: August 5, 2022
Bodies Bodies Bodies
“Bodies Bodies Bodies” of it begins with the close-up of a swoony smooch between two younger ladies, so lucidly into one another that the digicam refuses to see something aside from their ardor. Sensual, alive, and refreshingly conceited, this thirsty kiss nearly serves as a pledge by director Halina Reijn on what sort of a film her riotously entertaining “Bodies Bodies Bodies” could be. And what a thrill to find by the top that she would make good…
Bullet Train
“Bullet Train” is a motion movie that would simply have been an animated film, and sometimes appears to be like and appears like one. The story takes place on a bullet practice careening throughout Japan, however a lot of the film was shot on green-screened units, and the cityscapes and countrysides that practice rides by…
I Love My Dad
James Morosini’s “I Love My Dad” grabs the everlasting adage of “write what you know” and sprints in the direction of the sting of a cliff. The story is true: Morosini’s father pretended to be another person online with a view to testing in and being shut with the son who had blocked him on…
They/Them
John Logan, the Oscar-nominated author of “Gladiator,” “Hugo,” and “The Aviator” has by some means delivered one of many flattest and least attention-grabbing scripts of the 12 months in his directorial debut, “They/Them,” Blumhouse manufacturing being quietly shuffled off to Peacock right now. It’s a thriller how somebody who has written such dense, nuanced items…
Mija
For Doris Muñoz, the burden of goals is a heavy one. The American-born daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants, she talks in regards to the “pressure to honor” her mother and father’s “sacrifices,” noting that “it takes a lot of courage to make your own path.” That assertion might apply equally to Doris herself, a fledgling…