Recent Movie Roundup 23
The first few days of 2017 have been rather interesting, as some tweets of mine went unexpectedly viral and sparked an interesting conversation about how Hollywood perceives the behavior, and fantasy life, of male versus female characters (you can read the whole thing here ). But that feels like a distraction from the exciting news that there are finally films in movie theaters that I want to see. For some reason Israeli film distributors have broken their habit of waiting until February to bring out the year's Oscar hopefuls, and of course there are the year-ending genre movies. I didn't like all of these films, but I certainly enjoyed the experience of looking forward to them. Moana - Disney's latest attempt to reinvent the princess movie takes two novel approaches: drawing on Polynesian folklore and mythology for its story, and recruiting Hamilton wunderkind Lin-Manuel Miranda to write the film's songs. Heroine Moana (Auli'l Cravalho) is torn between her ...