Sherilyn Connelly

Sherilyn Connelly is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Disney Goes Dada: With Right Now Kapow, XD Learns to Love the Gag

By Sherilyn Connelly
Oct 28, 2016

Right now, Disney XD is probably best known for its increasingly relevant Star Wars Rebels series, as well as for being the only cable channel with an emoticon in its name — at least until the inevitable debut of the Trump :( Channel. Disney XD is also on probation with...
Showtime's The Circus Actually Makes Sense of This Election

By Sherilyn Connelly
Sep 9, 2016

The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth airs Sundays on Showtime In filmmaking, an assembly cut is when recent dailies are strung together in rough narrative order to create the first, very raw draft of the movie. Though it by no means lacks polish or editorial intent, Showtime's...
The Tender Anime Only Yesterday Hits U.S. Screens at Last

By Sherilyn Connelly
Mar 22, 2016

Because 2015's When Marnie Was There looks to be Studio Ghibli's final new film for the foreseeable future, it makes sense that the studio would circle back around to its beginnings. Isao Takahata's 1991 Only Yesterday was not Ghibli's first feature, however; it was preceded by Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 Castle...
Alan Rickman: A Character Actor and Director With the Presence of a Movie Star

By Sherilyn Connelly
Jan 15, 2016

Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69. To Americans of a certain generation, he'll always be Hans Gruber from Die Hard; to those of a slightly fresher vintage, he'll never not be Severus Snape. But it was his ability to transcend the typecasting of those iconic roles that...
When Marnie Was There Is a Joyous-Glum Outsider Drama

By Sherilyn Connelly
Jun 9, 2015

"I hate myself." That's an unusual statement coming from the hero of an animated film, let alone in the first two minutes. But 12-year-old orphan Anna (Sara Takatsuki), the protagonist of Hiromasa Yonebayashi's lovely anime When Marnie Was There, has no illusions about her place in the world

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