Courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Sega of America Well, it’s finally here — the movie the internet has been waiting for: “Sonic the Hedgehog.” After a three-month delay to completely reanimate the iconic blue hedgehog, it’s time for him to zoom onto the big screen. In the ever expanding lineup of horrible movie adaptations of [...]
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Courtesy of G Kids Following the massive success of his 2016 anime film “Your Name,” director Makoto Shinkai brought his newest animated film, “Weathering with You,” to Japan’s big screen, and, as of Jan. 15, it has finally graced U.S. theaters. The new project is as bright and crisp as ever for Shinkai’s standards, and [...]
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Tony Stark floats in space. /IMDB As the editor of the Arts & Entertainment section of the Wheel, it’s my responsibility to ensure that our writers contribute to conversations in the art world. Recently Martin Scorcese, Pedro Almodóvar and Jim Jarmusch, among other renowned filmmakers, made dismissive remarks toward Marvel films. In particular, they [...]
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As the 2010s come to a close and we humble Arts & Entertainment writers gawk at Pitchfork’s “best of” lists, we thought it useful to compile our own list of the best art of the decade. Here are our top film choices of the 2010s. Courtesy of A24 Adesola Thomas: “Lady Bird” I cannot warble [...]
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Courtesy of Warner Brothers While many icons of horror cinema history have been sequeled to death, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” has gone untouched for nearly 40 years. But that comes to an end with the new Warner Bros. film “Doctor Sleep.” The film hardly feels like a proper follow-up and barely qualifies as a horror [...]
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