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Sherilyn Connelly

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

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Through Animation, Tehran Taboo Dares to Depict the Politics of Sex in Iran

By Sherilyn Connelly
Mar 5, 2018

Soozandeh wastes no time establishing both the hypocrisy of the devout in Iran (or America, or Gilead) and his Short Cuts-ian tapestry of characters
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...
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...
To Be Takei Follows the Star Trek Actor Into Undiscovered Country

By Sherilyn Connelly
Aug 21, 2014

Jennifer M. Kroot's To Be Takei is an affectionate portrait of the hardest-working member of the original cast of Star Trek, George Takei. That's pronounced tuh-KAY, not tuh-KAI, as so many have misspoken it over the years, including but not limited to William Shatner, whose strained nonrelationship with Takei —...

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