Reel Encounters

Taking flight with Dumbo

With the current state of things, it seems only a matter of time before every animated Disney film is refashioned and remade as a live-action film to sustain us on a constant diet of Disney content.

Ghetto stories

You really can’t put a price on representation. There is nothing quite like seeing shades of your life vividly represented in the media you consume.

The titular character with her “other parents” in Henry Selick’s “Coralline.”

Coraline at 10

Ten years ago, Henry Selick’s “Coraline” premiered as the first feature from animated movie studio Laika.

The shallow waters of ‘Serenity’

The title of the thriller/psychodrama/melodrama “Serenity” is a misnomer. The film justifies the title because Serenity is the name of a boat where a great deal of the film’s action is set.

From left are Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, and Bruce Willis in “Glass,” which is now in theatres.

Mind Games in “Glass”

“Glass” recently premiered as the third part of M. Night Shyamalan’s Eastrail 177 Trilogy, which began with 2000’s “Unbreakable” and continued in 2017’s “Split.”

Taron Egerton as the newest Robin Hood

Petty thievery

There is one thing that the new iteration of “Robin Hood” does better than anything I’ve seen this year.

Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce in David Mackenzie’s “Outlaw King”

Fighting for identity

When director David Mackenzie’s kinetic, bloody war epic “Outlaw King” landed the prime opening night spot at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September, it seemed to signal great things for Netflix and for Mackenzie, whose previous work, “Hell or High Water,” was a critical hit a couple years ago.

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