![You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first week of the year, when theater auditoriums continue to draw folks with higher-profile movies that hit on or around Christmas Day. However, “M3GAN” — a tale of an artificial intelligence designed for children going epically out of control — arrived […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TNH-L-FilmReview-NightSwim-010524-04-2.jpg?w=140 "You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first week of the year, when theater auditoriums continue to draw folks with higher-profile movies that hit on or around Christmas Day. However, “M3GAN” — a tale of an artificial intelligence designed for children going epically out of control — arrived […]")
‘Night Swim’ review: Horror flick stays afloat, but for only so long
You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first week of the year, when theater auditoriums continue to draw folks with higher-profile movies that...
![Already dramatized in the 1993 movie “Alive,” the struggle of those who initially survived the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains to remain among the living gets a gripping and emotionally compelling new telling in “Society of the Snow.” Landing on Netflix this week, the latter hits several of the major story beats of its three-decades-old predecessor: the crash, the rationing of food, the work to repair a radio and, of course, the debate over the morality of a choice they ultimately will have to make to stay alive for an indeterminate amount of […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TNH-L-FilmReview-SocietyoftheSnow-WBOX-010524-01-3.jpg?w=133 "Already dramatized in the 1993 movie “Alive,” the struggle of those who initially survived the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains to remain among the living gets a gripping and emotionally compelling new telling in “Society of the Snow.” Landing on Netflix this week, the latter hits several of the major story beats of its three-decades-old predecessor: the crash, the rationing of food, the work to repair a radio and, of course, the debate over the morality of a choice they ultimately will have to make to stay alive for an indeterminate amount of […]")
![Filmmaker Zach Snyder finally has brought to the screen an idea he’s had since his college days for a “Star Wars”-like space opera. While “Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire” — hitting Netflix this week, after a limited theatrical run, and to be followed in April on the streaming service by “Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver” —- also was influenced by “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Dirty Dozen” and more, it shares much with the 1977 film now titled “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.” There’s a malevolent galactic empire. Lightsaber-like swords. A scoundrel […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-FilmReview-RebelMoon-One-WBOX-122229-3.jpg?w=132 "Filmmaker Zach Snyder finally has brought to the screen an idea he’s had since his college days for a “Star Wars”-like space opera. While “Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire” — hitting Netflix this week, after a limited theatrical run, and to be followed in April on the streaming service by “Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver” —- also was influenced by “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Dirty Dozen” and more, it shares much with the 1977 film now titled “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.” There’s a malevolent galactic empire. Lightsaber-like swords. A scoundrel […]")
![Perhaps George Clooney had no interest in adding to your holiday stress. A Christmas Day release, the Clooney-directed “The Boys in the Boat” tells the tale of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team, which competed at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. It does so in an old-fashioned, relatively low-conflict approach, resulting in a movie-viewing experience that is both easy to digest and at least a little underwhelming. Based on Daniel James Brown’s 2013 bestselling book of the same name, “The Boys in the Book” begins by introducing us to the mild-mannered and generally quiet Joe Rantz (Callum Turner), who […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-FilmReview-BoysintheBoat-WBOX-122923-04-2.jpg?w=132 "Perhaps George Clooney had no interest in adding to your holiday stress. A Christmas Day release, the Clooney-directed “The Boys in the Boat” tells the tale of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team, which competed at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. It does so in an old-fashioned, relatively low-conflict approach, resulting in a movie-viewing experience that is both easy to digest and at least a little underwhelming. Based on Daniel James Brown’s 2013 bestselling book of the same name, “The Boys in the Book” begins by introducing us to the mild-mannered and generally quiet Joe Rantz (Callum Turner), who […]")
![As toe-tapping and soul-stirring as it often is, the music of the musical film version of “The Color Purple” hitting theaters on Christmas Day isn’t the reason to see it. See it because it’s “The Color Purple.” Based on the stage musical that made its Broadway debut in 2005, the new movie is — like […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-FilmReview-TheColorPurple-WBOX-122223-02-1.jpg?w=132 "As toe-tapping and soul-stirring as it often is, the music of the musical film version of “The Color Purple” hitting theaters on Christmas Day isn’t the reason to see it. See it because it’s “The Color Purple.” Based on the stage musical that made its Broadway debut in 2005, the new movie is — like […]")
![If not quite from the moment you see a woman, shot from behind while standing on a bridge at night and looking down, then soon after, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” grabs you. And it refuses to let you go until its closing credits roll. For this strange, wonderful and altogether captivating adaptation of the 1992 Alasdair Gray novel “ Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer,” Lanthimos reteams with collaborators from his acclaimed 2018 film, “The Favourite,” who include screenwriter Tony McNamara and cinematographer Robbie Ryan. Most crucially, however, he brought […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-FilmReview-PoorThings-WBOX-122223-02-1.jpg?w=140 "If not quite from the moment you see a woman, shot from behind while standing on a bridge at night and looking down, then soon after, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” grabs you. And it refuses to let you go until its closing credits roll. For this strange, wonderful and altogether captivating adaptation of the 1992 Alasdair Gray novel “ Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer,” Lanthimos reteams with collaborators from his acclaimed 2018 film, “The Favourite,” who include screenwriter Tony McNamara and cinematographer Robbie Ryan. Most crucially, however, he brought […]")
![Born in Cleveland, Jim Sweeney spent years covering Northeast Ohio — first as a reporter with The News-Herald in Lake County in the 1980s and then for nearly two decades with The Plain Dealer. He knows the place. Its quirks. Its contours. Its (sometimes flammable) history. However, probably like many who call this little part of the world home, he didn’t necessarily know all the WHY behind the weird. “You sort of take for granted that, like, ‘It’s always been this way, and it is because it’s the way it is,’” says Sweeney, author of “What’s the Dead With Dead […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-Book-ClevelandQuestions-WBOX-121722-05.jpg?w=140 "Born in Cleveland, Jim Sweeney spent years covering Northeast Ohio — first as a reporter with The News-Herald in Lake County in the 1980s and then for nearly two decades with The Plain Dealer. He knows the place. Its quirks. Its contours. Its (sometimes flammable) history. However, probably like many who call this little part of the world home, he didn’t necessarily know all the WHY behind the weird. “You sort of take for granted that, like, ‘It’s always been this way, and it is because it’s the way it is,’” says Sweeney, author of “What’s the Dead With Dead […]")
![is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@morningjournal.com or entertainment@news-herald.com. You must include a phone number and/or web address for publication. Art Beck Center for the Arts: 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, presents “Art Treasures 2023,” featuring work by multiple artists, through Jan. 4. Call 216-521-2540, or visit beckcenter.org. Cleveland Museum of Art: 11150 East Blvd., presents “Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany,” through Aug. 4; “Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio,” through March 10; “China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta,” through Jan. 7; […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-Happenings-121523-01.jpg?w=132 "is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@morningjournal.com or entertainment@news-herald.com. You must include a phone number and/or web address for publication. Art Beck Center for the Arts: 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, presents “Art Treasures 2023,” featuring work by multiple artists, through Jan. 4. Call 216-521-2540, or visit beckcenter.org. Cleveland Museum of Art: 11150 East Blvd., presents “Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany,” through Aug. 4; “Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio,” through March 10; “China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta,” through Jan. 7; […]")
![In 2000, “Chicken Run” scurried into theaters, exposing the masses to the brilliant stop-motion work of Aardman Animations. Before then, it was best known for projects including the memorable music video for Peter Gabriel’s hit song “Sledgehammer” and, more relevantly, the charming short films featuring the endearing duo of Wallace and Gromit. “Chicken Run” — stemming from the idea of doing a movie inspired by the 1963 war film “The Great Escape,” only, you know, with chicken prisoners instead of the human variety — made more than $225 million worldwide and, to hear the Aardman folks tell it, helped lead […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TNH-L-FilmReview-ChickenRun-Nugget-WBOX-121523-01.jpg?w=140 "In 2000, “Chicken Run” scurried into theaters, exposing the masses to the brilliant stop-motion work of Aardman Animations. Before then, it was best known for projects including the memorable music video for Peter Gabriel’s hit song “Sledgehammer” and, more relevantly, the charming short films featuring the endearing duo of Wallace and Gromit. “Chicken Run” — stemming from the idea of doing a movie inspired by the 1963 war film “The Great Escape,” only, you know, with chicken prisoners instead of the human variety — made more than $225 million worldwide and, to hear the Aardman folks tell it, helped lead […]")