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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
Nov 2, 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...
No, There Is a TV News Show That Makes Sense of This Election: Watch Showtime's The Circus

By Sherilyn Connelly
Sep 14, 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...
Approaching the Unknown Is the Best Science-Fiction Movie Since Gravity

By Sherilyn Connelly
May 27, 2016

At first glance, the most obvious analog to Mark Elijah Rosenberg's Approaching the Unknown would be The Martian, both being about lone men on treacherous missions to Mars. But Approaching the Unknown operates on a much smaller and more philosophical scale, and is ultimately more satisfying. Captain William D. Stanaforth...
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...
Studio Ghibli's Marnie Is a Joyous-Glum Outsider Drama

By Sherilyn Connelly
Jun 3, 2015

Anna Are You OK? Studio Ghibli's Marnie is a joyous-glum outsider drama. "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...