Fantasia 2014 | Report #4
Tickets to a concert featuring a classical trio with boy-band looks play a key role in the story.
July 2014
Fantasia 2014 | Report #3
Director Benny Chan has a gift for setting action sequences in realistic locations, from the Thai forest to the crumbling apartment blocks of Hong Kong to a luxury restaurant in Macau.
Fantasia 2014 | Report #2
Giovanni’s Island is a particularly interesting film because most of the story concerns what happens to people after a war is over, as opposed to focusing on the war itself.
Panic! at the Disco | 07.26.14
Panic! is well loved by its fans, and the packed house at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre was proof of that.
Brad Schiff | Animation as a Social Act
“A lot of animators, especially CG animators, I find are a little bit more introverted. Stop-mo, we’re a slightly different breed, you know?”
Winter in the Blood (self-released, NR)
Rene Haynes’s great cast gives the film much-needed charisma; the beautiful panoramas of northern Montana give it even more depth.
Lovefool 07.28.14 | Statement of Fact
Fresh from a signing, Lovefool offers up some advice on how to make the most of a chance to shill your comics in person.
Fantasia 2014 | Report #1
You might say the Japanese anticipated the current craze for dystopian YA literature, but made their dystopias much more extreme than anything the American market would bear.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Stages St. Louis
All of the performances in this production are top shelf.
Seussical | The Muny
This show is the most infectious children’s musical I have ever seen on stage, more compelling I’d argue than most of their Disney selections, like “Tarzan.”