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The “How to Train Your Dragon” movie franchise has staked out its own distinctive corner of family entertainment over the past decade. It was quirky with a sarcastic tone, but also landed strong emotional beats and took big chances, like killing off major characters.
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Nobody really saw “The Lego Movie” coming.
In what at first glance appeared to be shameless corporate cross-promotion designed to get kids to buy more toys, instead turned out to be a clever, heartwarming pop-culture mashup extolling the power of imagination with a super-catchy them... [More]
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It’s tough to get more iconic than “Fiddler on the Roof” when it comes to musicals. This bittersweet depiction of Jewish life in Russia at the dawn of the 20th century has been performed everywhere from the lights of Broadway to countless high school auditoriums.
The show is t... [More]
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As both a film nerd and a history nerd, I have a standing protest against the very idea behind the new WWI documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old.” Gimmicks like colorization and adding 3D and sound to historical footage are typically barriers to the original, first-take view of hi... [More]
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M. Night Shyamalan just stuck the landing on one of the most unconventional trilogies in cinematic history.
It started with “Unbreakable,” his slow-burn take on comic-book mythos that came out in the year 2000 in the middle of the writer/director’s meteoric rise to superstardo... [More]
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Musicals can take many paths from inception to the stage. The more convoluted the route, the greater the degree of difficulty in making something worthwhile.
“Anastasia” is a great example of the perils of taking the long and winding road. The show is loosely based on the 1997 anima... [More]
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When it comes to musical theater spectacle and pathos, you’ll be hard pressed to find any show doing that combination better than “Les Miserables.”
The show still packs a punch here in 2018, as proven by the touring production playing now through Dec. 16, at the Fox Theatre.
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J.K. Rowling could have easily just taken her hundreds of millions of dollars from her creation of the “Harry Potter” universe and happily spent the rest of her life without dreaming up any more magic spells or silly wizard names.
Instead, she switched from novels to screenplays, pe... [More]
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I’ve never really understood the need to mess with perfection. The 1966 animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” is about as classic as holiday entertainment gets.
Helmed by Looney Tunes directors Chuck Jones and Ben Washam and narrated by Bori... [More]