![]() ![]() Director Veronica Rodriguez stopped by Screen Gab to discuss DCOMs, sneaking in age-inappropriate slumber party movies and more. Premiering July 27 on Disney Channel and the next day on Disney+, next up is “The Slumber Party,” about a group of girls whose experiments in sleepover hypnotism go wrong. (We used to call my kid sister Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.) Subsequent generations of young viewers may look back on the form with similar nostalgic goodwill, as Disney Channel still rolls out a handful of original movies a year, if not the turn-of-the-millenium peak of a dozen. It’s not just “High School Musical” obsessives who know the power of the Disney Channel Original Movie, or DCOM: The network’s tween-friendly interpretation of the made-for-TV movie, launched in its current form in the late 1990s, was part of my and my siblings’ lingua franca. Josh Rottenberg Guest spotĪ weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they’re working on - and what they’re watching But with the film now available to stream, you can see for yourself from the comfort of your couch what all the fuss was - or, perhaps more accurately, wasn’t - about. The combination of overheated hype and a troubled star may have spelled doom for “The Flash” at the box office. Supergirl, and, for anyone looking for a nostalgia fix, Michael Keaton - the OG star of Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” - returns to once again wear the Dark Knight’s cowl and scowl. Sasha Calle makes a striking debut as Kara Zor-El, a.k.a. As Justin Chang wrote in his decidedly mixed review for The Times, Miller delivers a “witty, fully engaged, nimble-in-every-sense performance,” while director Andy Muschietti (“It”) brings “an exuberantly maximalist approach” to a character previously relegated to second-banana status in the DC pantheon. While it may not be “probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made,” as DC Studios co-chief James Gunn inadvisedly proclaimed in the run-up to its release, “The Flash” - which sees Miller’s Barry Allen traversing alternate realities and joining forces with a younger version of himself to save his mother (and the world) - has its charms. The result was a box-office face-plant, with “The Flash” barely limping over the $100-million mark. But the studio decided to press ahead, hoping early positive buzz out of CinemaCon and the enthusiasm of hardcore comic-book fans would carry the day, even as Miller was sidelined from the publicity tour. reportedly considered shelving the film entirely. Months of headlines about star Ezra Miller’s off-screen troubles - including reports of erratic and sometimes violent behavior, multiple arrests and their self-described “complex mental health issues” - overshadowed the run-up to the film’s release, to the point that Warner Bros. Ashley Lee Catch upĮverything you need to know about the film or TV series everyone’s talking aboutīy the time “The Flash” (VOD, multiple platforms) hit theaters on June 16, the long-anticipated showcase for the Scarlet Speedster was weighed down by enough baggage to slow the fleet-footed superhero to a jog. It will leave you with a deeper appreciation for the lightning-in-a-bottle collaborations that result in your favorite films. (Including, in Season 4, a controversy over onscreen comments Damon made to producer Effie Brown about diversity in Hollywood.) Refreshingly, “Project Greenlight: A New Generation” (Max), follows a woman director and features a more diverse panel of mentors, but that doesn’t make its 10 episodes any less satisfyingly cringeworthy a peek into this too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen industry. ![]() The series’ first four seasons, spread over the period 2001-2015, were always more about the intricate, thorny process of moviemaking itself than about the specific movie being made. I’m already a fan of the work of Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani and Gina Prince-Bythewood, so I was plenty pumped that they united to reboot the HBO docuseries “Project Greenlight,” which has historically captured a male director’s journey in making his first feature film - a process previously shepherded by the likes of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. ![]()
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