Sherilyn Connelly
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Past articles by Sherilyn:
Discovering the First Star Trek Movie, the Second Time Around
How one fan's journey into Star Trek's past resulted in a new appreciation for its present. → Read More
A Trek Through the Paramount Lot
On October 30, 2019, I went on the Paramount VIP Studio Tour. While I love Star Trek, the Paramount tour was my first true studio tour for more than just franchise loyalty. I was also tickled by the idea that it is an actual studio tour and not a studio-turned-theme park. Nothing against theme parks or rides, mind you; but I was there for the history. → Read More
“Fireworks” Is Like “Your Name,” But Lame
Success begets imitators, but the floodgates really open wide when a supernatural teenage romance becomes a blockbuster. The impact of Your Name becoming the highest-grossing anime... → Read More
Turn Off Your Brain and Enjoy the Pretty Colors of “Lu Over the Wall”
Mermaids are the new vampires, so Masaaki Yuasa’s bouncy anime Lu Over the Wall incorporates vampiric elements into its mermaid mythos, because why not? Indeed,... → Read More
Don’t Miss the Dark, Hand-Drawn Animated Beauty “Birdboy”
This daaaaaark animated film from Spain by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivera is being released domestically as Birdboy: The Forgotten Children but was originally titled... → Read More
An Afghan Girl Poses as a Boy to Survive Under the Taliban
“The Breadwinner” portrays one brave eleven-year-old’s struggle to feed her family → Read More
A Young Writer Discovers Iran’s Culture of Poetry in “Window Horses”
Many independent animated films in recent years have adopted a hand-drawn and/or collage-heavy aesthetic, but few are quite as heartfelt and charming as Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming. Rosie (voiced by Sandra Oh, also a producer of this Canadian feature) is a young Francophile of Chinese-Persian ancestry in Canada who is more than a little surprised… → Read More
Gael García Bernal Hits the Midwest in Cross-Culture Comedy 'You're Killing Me Susana'
Roberto Sneider's You're Killing Me Susana (Me estás matando Susana) is a culture-clash comedy in which the clash happens both onscreen and off. Eligio (Gael García Bernal) is a self-absorbed telenovela character actor in Mexico City who thinks nothing of carousing and cheating on his novelist wife Susana (Verónica Echegui),... → Read More
'Miss Hokusai' Is the Anime Biopic of One of History's Great Erotic Artists
Keiichi Hara's episodic anime Miss Hokusai is a lovely biopic, even if it never quite picks up and focuses on a single thread. (Then again, neither does life.) In nineteenth-century Edo, later to be renamed Tokyo, here a magical-realist city populated by demons and the occasional astral-projecting courtesan, Katsushika Hokusai... → Read More
Antonio Banderas Discovers Cave Paintings and Angers the Church in 'Finding Altamira'
Hugh Hudson's Finding Altamira is a rote but engaging historical drama about the eternal debate between truth and mythology. While exploring a recently revealed cave with her archaeologist and all-around-rationalist father Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola (Antonio Banderas) in 1879 Spain, 9-year old María (Allega Allen) discovers paintings of bison and... → Read More
Atlantic-Crossing Police Comedy ‘Puerto Ricans in Paris’ Is Sweet and Humane
Ian Edelman's comedy Puerto Ricans in Paris is a much sweeter film than its Snakes on a Plane–caliber title would suggest. → Read More
'Approaching the Unknown' Is the Best Sci-Fi Movie Since 'Gravity'
At first glance, the most obvious analogue to Mark Elijah Rosenberg's Approaching the Unknown would be The Martian, both being tales of lone men on... → Read More
Diane Kruger Hits the Road in 'Sky,' a Hit-or-Miss Drama With Some Real Pleasures
Fabienne Berthaud's Sky is a road movie that never quite makes the right turns. French national Romy (Diane Kruger) is on a vacation in the American Southwest with her boorish, philandering husband of eight years, Richard (Gilles Lellouche). After he attempts to rape her, Romy bashes him over the head... → Read More
Icky and Casually Racist, 'Temps' Is a Comedy to Miss
Give Ryan Sage's otherwise unpleasant Temps this much credit: It wastes very little time on the standard rom-com "will they or won't they?" dance. Problem is, you can't help wanting the answer to be "won't." Recently laid off from her office job, career-minded Stephanie (Lindsey Shaw) takes a temp gig... → Read More
Animated Wonder 'April and the Extraordinary World' Is Steampunk That Works (Plus: Talking Cat!)
Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci's animated April and the Extraordinary World is a rollicking, old-timey pulp adventure full of chases and the occasional cliffhanger. The picture is set in an alternate history in which the mysterious disappearance of scientists in the late nineteenth century has resulted in a gray, polluted... → Read More
Familiar Anime Tale 'The Boy and the Beast' Presumes That Beasts Are Pretty Dumb
Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast works with many common anime tropes but doesn't find anything new to say about them. On the streets of Shibuya, nine-year-old runaway Ren (Aoi Miyazaki) discovers a portal to a world populated by anthropomorphic animals. There he grows up in an uneasy apprenticeship... → Read More
The Tender Anime Only Yesterday Hits U.S. Screens at Last
Since 2015's When Marnie Was There looks to be its final new film for the foreseeable future, it makes sense that Studio Ghibli would circle back around to its beginnings. Isao Takahata's 1991 Only Yesterday was not Ghibli's first feature, however; it was preceded by Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 Castle in... → Read More
'Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong' Is Welcome Proof That They Can Still Make Romantic Comedies
Many filmmakers have tried in recent years, but few have nailed the elusive formula of the two-hander romantic comedy quite like Emily Ting with Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong. Ruby (Jamie Chung) is a Los Angeleno who, lost on her first visit to the title city, reluctantly enlists the help... → Read More
Superhero Spoof ‘Lazer Team’ Proves a ‘Fantastic Four’ Movie Could Be Intentionally Funny
Matt Hullum's agreeably silly 1980s homage Lazer Team deserves to be the breakthrough for the Rooster Teeth comedy troupe that Super Troopers was for Broken Lizard. In a small Texas town, four local screw-ups — ineffectual sheriff's deputy Hagan (Burnie Burns), his estranged high school friend Herman (Colton Dunn), teenage... → Read More
Kiddo-Flick ‘Monster Hunt’ Is China’s Biggest-Ever Movie — But You Can Miss It
Raman Hui's Monster Hunt is a kid-friendly adventure fantasy that may be too slowly paced for its target demographic. In ancient China, monsters exist b... → Read More