Fred Topel Brie Larson makes her second appearance as Captain Marvel of the year in Avengers: Endgame. The final scene in Avengers: Infinity War showed Nick Fury page Carol Danvers as he was being dusted, and her own movie showed her join the Avengers to battle Thanos. Even though Captain Marvel shattered records and captivated fans just
The legendary La Llorona finally has her own movie, scaring audiences in theaters this weekend. Making The Curse of La Llorona was scary for the cast. Everyone had a spooky story about something happening to them during or after filming the movie. Here are their stories. Patricia Velasquez’s Story “Sometimes we do this little exercise
The latest horror movie from producer James Wan is out this week. Wan has been producing spinoffs from his Conjuring movies, and when The Curse of La Llorona premiered at SXSW last month, everyone learned it also has a connection to The Conjuring. La Llorona is a real world myth in Latin culture about a
For kids, wishing they were grownups is a fantasy about finally being in charge of their own lives. Getting sent back to school age is a punishment, although In the father/son swap movies of the ’80s the middle aged men longed to return to their youth. Little has a lot to learn on both sides.
Tim Burton has specialized in movies about social misfits like Pee-Wee Herman and outsiders like Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood. Often those characters find family in a world of other misfits like they are. Dumbo was ripe for the Tim Burton treatment. Everyone remembers the original animated film about the flying element. That film also
Season 2 of Step Up: High Water is now available on YouTube Premium. High Water Academy is home to many talented dancers, but one of the standouts is Odelie (Jade Chynoweth). Al (Faizon Love) even refers to her as “the good one.” Odelie just got a job on Sage Odom (Ne-Yo)’s dance crew, but her
Naya Rivera graduated the high school of Glee but still works in the world of music and dance. On YouTube Premium’s Step Up: High Water, Rivera plays Collette Jones, the head of High Water dance academy. Yes, she still has her job in season two. You may be wondering what happens after she shot East-O
Disney’s live-action re-imagining of Dumbo was directed by Tim Burton. You know what that means. The music had to be written by Danny Elfman. When Dumbo flies, Elfman’s score becomes triumphant. That’s now how he wrote it though. The Dumbo theme is based on a very sad song for a sad moment in the film.
I love stories where characters save their own imagination. In movies this probably goes back to The Wizard of Oz, in literature at least Alice in Wonderland, the namesake of Wonder Park. Perhaps it’s because these stories tell is it’s important to tell stories. That’s validating considering I’ve devoted my life to the telling of
Captain Marvel is the first Marvel superhero to get her own movie, after team-up movies featuring Black Widow, Scarlett Witch and The Wasp. Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) is not alone though. Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch) has her back. Carol and Maria were pilots in the Air Force together. We see flashes of their military career