******REDWOOD-SIZED SPOILERS!****** My wife teaches high school animation, and we’ve both been fans of Laika Studios; a San Francisco-based production company specializing in stop-motion puppet animation. 17 years ago, it was love at first sight for both of us with “Coraline” (2009), Laika’s debut feature film based on the surreal Neil Gaiman novella about a…
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S#!t happens in Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind”…
******SUSPICIOUS SPOILERS!****** I have to admit, I took the bait on this one. Last month, I saw an interesting online trailer for Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind” (2023), based on a book by Rumaan Alam, who cowrote the screenplay with director Sam Esmail. Starring Oscar winners Julia Roberts (“Erin Brockovich”) and Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”), along…