With the movie launching on Disney+ on August 14, Vital Thrills got a chance to talk to The One and Only Ivan cast. The Walt Disney Studios film is based on the award-winning book by Katherine Applegate (buy at Amazon). The One and Only Ivan tells the story of Ivan, a silverback gorilla who learns that …
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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel The Secret Garden (check price at Amazon) has been adapted before. It’s been on the big screen a number of times, on television and on the stage, including a Tony Award-winning musical. There has always been something lovely about it, but it’s sort of standoffish. In the story, the main …
Streaming service Max announced today that it wants to help you relax with a ten-episode order of A World of Calm, a collaboration between the Calm app and Nutopia, the team behind National Geographic’s critically acclaimed series One Strange Rock. A World of Calm is a totally new type of television experience that combines mesmeric …
Da 5 Bloods is the story of four African-American Vets who battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide. Recently, director Spike Lee and stars Delroy Lindo and Jonathan Majors got together for a Critics …
If you’ve been watching movies going back to the ’90s, you’re probably familiar with David Koepp’s writing from blockbusters like Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, its sequel The Lost World, the first Mission: Impossible or even the first Spider-Man movie in 2002. Every few years when he’s not one of Hollywood’s most in-demand writers, David Koepp would direct a movie or two, …
Judd Apatow has a long history of “Lovable Losers” in his work. All the way from Freaks and Geeks to The 40-Year-Old Virgin, even in films like This Is 40 and Trainwreck, Apatow tells stories about broken, juvenile characters who are dragged, kicking and screaming, into the real world. Apatow’s also been accused of glossing …
It’s not the end all of a new film when it sticks to a premade plot formula. There are only so many stories out there, after all (between five and seven, depending on who you listen to). Sure, when new milieus arrive, there are changes to fit the new background, but that only goes so …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the eleventh episode of the season, titled “Shattered.” After successfully capturing Maul on Mandalore, Ahsoka plans to deliver him to the Jedi Council on Coruscant. When Order 66 is …
Spring, 1987. I’m a senior in high school. I’m sitting in the back seat of my friend Bill’s lime-green Chevy Nova. We’re in the parking lot of a Kroger’s, and we’re all a little drunk. Some of us more than others; we’ve been drinking beers, and right before we left the party at Heather’s house, …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the tenth episode of the season, titled “The Phantom Apprentice.” Ahsoka leads Republic clones to confront Maul’s forces on Mandalore, while Maul senses the impending chaos and makes a …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the ninth episode of the season, titled “Old Friends Not Forgotten.” Ahsoka Tano reaches out to Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi seeking assistance to secure the capture of longtime …
As a television-obsessed writer, there is no place I would rather be than inside. In the last three weeks, my husband and I have binged seven complete seasons of various TV shows – and that doesn’t include news, reruns, and currently airing network television. Thankfully, there is an abundance of streaming sites and thousands of TV …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the seventh episode of the season, titled “Dangerous Debt.” After being imprisoned by the Pykes, Ahsoka Tano and the Martez sisters manage a daring escape from their stronghold. Together …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the sixth episode of the season, titled “Deal No Deal.” When Trace Martez pilots her prized ship on a mysterious job arranged by her sister Rafa, Ahsoka is alarmed …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the fifth episode of the season, titled “Gone With a Trace.” In the Coruscant underworld, Ahsoka Tano befriends a pilot whose sister enlists her to help build droids, but …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the third episode of the season, titled “On the Wings of Keeradaks.” Having located Echo, Anakin leads Rex and the Bad Batch in a daring escape. But with the Techno …
Locke & Key premiered on Netflix on February 7, and viewers learned all about the mysterious keys that have followed the Locke family and their friends. The series is based on the hit comics by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. We recently got to chat with actress Hallea Jones, who plays Eden Hawkins in the series. …
Netflix announced today that the streaming service has given the green light to Ragnarok Season 2. Netflix released new images, which spell “Oh My God,” to announce the second season. You can view them below. The first season of the Norwegian-language drama series debuted on Netflix on January 31st. It consists of six episodes. Ragnarok is a …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the second episode of the season, titled “A Distant Echo.” After discovering that clonetrooper Echo may be alive, Republic forces form a rescue team to retrieve him. Led by Anakin …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns for its seventh and final season on the Disney+ streaming service. In this review, we’re taking a look at the premiere episode of the season, titled “The Bad Batch.” The war takes a turn for the worse for the Republic as the Separatist droids take on new tactics. The …