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The Scooter Scoop: IT'S NEVER OVER JEFF BUCKLEY Movie Preview

August 22, 2025

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Other times, it just makes a better story. That’s the case with the documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, now playing at Robinson Film Center.

Jeff Buckley was a 1990s-era singer-songwriter known for his powerful lyrics and his rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on his album “Grace.” He died suddenly in 1997 in Memphis, TN, as plans for his second studio album were coming together. He was 30 years old.

The film follows Jeff’s seemingly destined journey into music. His father was legendary songwriter Tim Buckley. Tim left before Jeff was born and died when Jeff was only 8. But Jeff inherited a gift for songwriting, along with a wide-ranging voice and a gift of musicianship. He learned quickly that music was his “deepest form of communication with people.”

But music also became an albatross around Jeff’s neck. He was haunted with the memory of his father, and he struggled to find his own voice. He finally did, but unfortunately caved under the pressure and demands that came along with fame.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is not some cautionary tale of the price of fame. It’s not a pop culture reflection on what might have been. It is a tribute to a talented and tortured spirit, gone too soon, told by the mother, girlfriends, bandmates, and friends who knew him best.

Don’t rush off after the credit begin to roll, either. There is some great live footage of him you won’t want to miss.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 35th Anniversary Movie Preview

August 18, 2025

Nostalgia is having a bit of a revival lately. And it’s pretty easy to understand why. The fond recollections of the past are like warm, cozy blankets to curl up in and take a nap. Or you can build a fort to keep the modern world at bay.

Nostalgia is enjoying a moment at the movies, too. We recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws. And this week we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a run at Robinson Film Center.

For some of us, the film is a time warp back to middle school or high school, complete with fashion, music and slang. For younger generations, it builds perspective on just how far we have come with special effects and movie making.

The plot is a classic, too. New York City is caught up in a mysterious crime wave. But a band of four teenage mutant turtles trained in the ways of ninjitsu comes to the rescue, teaming up with a rouge vigilante and and intrepid reporter. When the ring leader has the boys’ ninja master kidnapped, it’s all over except for the shouting. And the shout is “Cowabunga, dude!”

Totally believable, right?

But that’s the point. Back in 1990, the movie theater was the place to go to escape the world and suspend your disbelief for a couple of hours to immerse yourself in some fantastic fun.

Also, be sure to get there early for a sneak peek at a documentary on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Movie Preview

July 25, 2025

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a nostalgic, action-packed humorous romp — perfect for beating the summertime heat — now playing at Robinson Film Center.

And,  if you walk away feeling like this movie is a live-action version of The Incredibles, well, I am sure that’s just a coincidence (wink, wink).

The movie features the classic comic book quartet of Dr. Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm. The Fantastic Four are beloved in their Space Race-era stylized metropolis. As the movie opens, the first family of heroism is expanding. The heroes must comes to grips with their greatest challenge yet — becoming parents.

Oh, yeah, then there’s this whole Galactus coming to destroy the Earth thing, too.

But Galactus makes a critical mistake. He announces that he is coming after the baby. Don’t come after a newborn baby, or her mother. It’s not going to end well for you. Everybody knows that.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps shows a very human side of our superheroes. They struggle with doubt about whether they can defeat a seemingly unbeatable foe. They struggle with the backlash of being rejected when they put their family first. But in the end, they do what all heroes do — they lay themselves on the line for the common good.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: SUPERMAN Movie Preview

July 14, 2025

Get to Robinson Film Center to see Superman faster than a speeding bullet. This movie is BIG!

The fight scenes are big. The explosions are big. The jokes are big. The  cameos are big (Bradley Cooper). Heck, at 6-foot-4, Superman himself (David Corenswet) is big!

On the surface, this Superman film has all the earmarks of a classic comic book superhero story. Lex Luthor (played by Nicholas Hoult) is dead-set on eliminating Superman and world domination. But there is a layer below the surface that you wouldn’t find in a classic DC comic.

Superman is a lot less, well, super in this movie. He’s got relationship issues. He’s stuck watching his cousin’s ill-mannered dog Krypto while she’s out partying. He’s battling a smear campaign that’s turned Metropolis against him.

The Man of Steel begins to struggle with his identity in this movie. But a quick visit with his human parents reminds him who he really is. As an aside, Pa Kent is played by Pruitt Taylor Vince, who has worked with a number of Shreveport filmmakers.

With a renewed sense of who he his, Superman returns to the fray, determined to save humanity once again.

In the end, good triumphs over evil. It is a superhero movie, after all. But the message behind Superman is that you don’t have to be super to be heroic, as long as you know who you really are.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: F1 Movie Preview

July 9, 2025

If you’re feeling the need for speed this summer, ditch the fighter jets and head to Robinson Film Center for F1: The Movie.

The film is a Jerry Bruckheimer production, so if it feels a little like Top Gun: Maverick, that’s the reason. It’s a summer blockbuster, full of fast-paced action sequences, equally fast dialog, intense cinematography and a killer soundtrack. But it’s no cookie-cutter production.

Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a veteran race car driver whose F1 career ended in a horrific crash before it really got started. But his old friend Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) talks Hayes out of retirement for a final ride with his struggling team.

Part of Hayes’ role is to mentor a brash rookie Joshua Pearce, played by Damson Idris. The competition between the two reignites a fire in Sonny. That, and his daredevil approach to life, end up solidifying the team in their race to victory lane.

Like I said, F1 is a Bruckheimer film, so you should go into it with some preconceived expectations. And the movie doesn’t disappoint in those areas. But it also has enough twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat, and I’m not just talking about the driving.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE LIFE OF CHUCK Movie Preview

June 27, 2025

Tom Petty was right — the waiting is the hardest part.

That’s the lesson from The Life of Chuck, now playing at Robinson Film Center. The film is based on a short story by Stephen King.

The story is set up as a three-act play that starts with its third act. Tom Hiddleston plays Chuck Krantz, a seemingly normal guy. Act Three, “Thanks Chuck,” opens with the world seemingly falling apart — no internet, earthquakes, sinkholes, real end-of-days disaster kinds of stuff. But here is Chuck, who is being celebrated, apparently for no other reason than working 39 years as an accountant. He is the Oz of the Apocalypse.

In Act Two, “Buskers Forever,” Chuck shows that he is not as normal as he might appear. He wows an audience with an inspired street dance. When the busker drummer asks him why he stopped to listen and why he started to dance, he mysteriously has no answer. But life for Chuck “is narrower than what he once hoped for.” And that’s why he is an accountant and not a dancer.

Act One, “I Contain Multitudes,” goes back into Chuck’s childhood and explores love and loss and dreams. Raised by his grandparents, Chuck learns to dance from his grandmother (Mia Sara) and learns accounting from his grandfather (Mark Hamill). But his grandfather also guards a secret that, once Chuck discovers, changes the way he looks at his life. And, just maybe, it explains why got out there and danced.

Yeah, I left some questions unanswered. Life is full of unanswered questions. You need to see the movie to find those answers. You need to see it because, like Chuck, you “contain multitudes.”

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: MATERIALISTS Movie Preview

June 20, 2025

Materialsts, now playing at Robinson Film Center, can be summed up in three words: Dating is hard.

OK, I will give you a few more words than that. In the film Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a top-notch professional matchmaker in New York City. She is very good at her job for one reason — she treats relationships like commodities. She understands her clients expectations, and she knows how to find the value in another person for her clients.

In other words, Lucy will help you “check all the boxes” when it comes to finding a dating partner.

Lucy’s jaded approach is understandable after discovering that she lost a shot at love earlier in life when “the math didn’t work.” Then, at the wedding of two of her clients, she meets a man who checks all of her boxes. But she resists the relationship at first because she believes she doesn’t check all of his.

She is further rocked when a match she arranged goes horribly wrong. And when her unicorn isn’t necessarily the genuine article, she realizes that Mr. Right doesn’t always look like Mr. Right Now.

Materialists is a modern romance that reminds us that, in the end, because two people have hope, true love triumphs over checking all the boxes.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Movie Preview

June 17, 2025

Timing can be everything. The Phoenician Scheme — now playing at Robinson Film Center — easily comes across as an immediate political and social commentary. But when you consider Wes Anderson couldn’t have made the movie in the past six months, you realize it’s more Wes being Wes, with a heavy dose of conscience added in.

In the film, Benicio Del Toro plays the deathly and unscrupulous businessman Zsa-zsa Korda. He calls on his only daughter, Liesl — a nun, to be his sole heir, and they embark on a mission to save his latest business venture. Along they way, the fall prey to scheming business partners, assassins and terrorists.

But while the plot centers on oligarchs and global business and politics, the subtext dives into dysfunctional family life, religion and guilt, and the afterlife. And it does it all in a fast-paced, sometimes outlandish 110 minutes.

Anderson leans into many of the storytelling mechanisms he has become know for, including the characters coming together for a common purpose in the end and learning how to accept, if not actually forgive, each other. And he does it will a large cast of characters, including a couple of his favorites: Bill Murray and Brian Cranston.

If current events have you looking for an escape, and maybe a good laugh or two along the way, don’t miss The Phoenician Scheme.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: TORNADO Movie Preview

May 30, 2025

American cinema has long been influenced by Japanese filmmakers, and particularly films about the samurai. It’s no secret that George Lucas was influence by the films of Akira Kurosawa when he created the legend of the Jedi Knights in Star Wars. And without Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, we wouldn’t have the classic Western The Magnificent Seven.

Fans of samurai films and Westerns alike will enjoy Tornado, now playing at Robinson Film Center. It is The Seven Samurai mixed with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Unforgiven and some other Clint Eastwood classics, all set in the British Isles in 1790.

Tornado is a Japanese girl traveling the countryside with her father as they perform a samurai puppet show about good versus evil. But Tornado is trapped in her own good vs. evil story, as bandits are after her for taking their stolen treasure.

When the bandits kill Tornado’s father and everyone else she knows, for that matter, she sets her sights on revenge. And when it is complete, she sets off on her own samurai journey.

But Tornado is by no means derivative of the films that seem to have inspired it. It is its own story, expertly told. Tornado is a unique tale that is action-packed without being too intense, violent without being gory, and suspenseful without being scary.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: LILO & STITCH Movie Preview

May 23, 2025

The kids are out of school, and maybe the family already is feeling a bit, let’s say, too close this summer. Maybe you’re dreaming of an extended vacation in a Hawaiian paradise. But if that seems out of reach, pack up the kids and take them to see Lilo & Stitch at Robinson Film Center.

This is the latest in a line of live-action remakes of animated films. And this one blends all of  the slapstick humor of its cartoon counterpart with just enough touching poignancy to appeal to the entire family.

If you have kids of a certain age, I’m sure I don’t need to lay out the premise for you. But for the rest of us, let me summarize.

Lilo is a precocious 6-year-old girl being raised by her older sister, Nani. The girls have lost their parents in an accident, and Nani is working hard to keep them together. Lilo doesn’t understand and is just seeking some connection.

Stitch is… well, he’s mostly indescribable. He is an alien life form, made in a lab. He, too, is caught causing more trouble than he is worth and gets exiled to Earth. Lilo finds Stitch, and the rest of the film is their journey to find Ohana — family.

This film has something for everyone to love: slapstick comedy, touching emotional moments and lots of Elvis Presley music. It’s a 90-minute tropical escape from your day-to-day with an important reminder that Ohana “isn’t always perfect, but that doesn’t mean you are bad.”

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: SINNERS Movie Preview

May 9, 2025

Ryan Coogler weaves the legend of Robert Johnson, vampire tales, Creole mysticism, gangsters seeking redemption and racial and religious oppression into a multilayered tapestry of fantasy, history and culture in Sinners, now playing at Robinson Film Center.

Smoke and Stack are twin brothers, played by Michael B. Jordan. They have returned home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1932. And while there is some mystery about their time away in Chicago, it’s clear from the beginning of the film they are not men to trifle with.

They have come back to go into business for themselves with a juke joint. Among the team they assemble for the venture is their cousin Sammie Moore, played by Miles Caton. Sammie is a blues guitarist whose talent belies his humble life as the son of a sharecropping pastor.

On opening night, the joint is jumping. But the tension builds when three creepy strangers try to crash the party. After that, well, let’s just say things get a little weird.

If you are fan of fast-paced action and great music, you will enjoy this movie. If you go for strong cinematography and visual effects, you will enjoy this movie. If you enjoy supporting films shot in Louisiana, you will enjoy this one, too, as parts of it were shot across southeast Louisiana.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE SHROUDS Movie Preview

May 2, 2025

If you are looking for a way to cope with death and grief and cancer and conspiracy theories and the ethical and moral implications of rapidly expanding technology and artificial intelligence, you could do years of research, write some academic papers and see a counselor.

Or you could go to the Robinson Film Center and see The Shrouds. Writer and director David Cronenberg has done most of the heavy lifting for you.

In the film, Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, a grieving widower who has developed an innovative cemetery business.

When his cemetery is vandalized and his data hijacked, Karsh spins into a web of conspiracies that involve the Chinese, the Russians, affairs, and hackers. Watching him struggle to keep his sanity as he untangles himself from it all will keep you on the edge of your seat, even if you do have to squirm a little bit.

The Shrouds shares some of the highbrow weirdness that defines other Cronenberg films. But it’s paired with the bitter truth of the director’s own struggle with his wife’s death to cancer in 2017 after 43 years of marriage. That fact lends a bit of credibility to the craziness.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: NO OTHER LAND Movie Preview

April 28, 2025

It’s easy to look at war from 30,000 feet, or from the other side of the globe. It can seem so cut and dried, black and white.

But when you are put in the middle of the conflict, it takes on the kind of nuance that only interpersonal relationships can bring to a situation. Oscar winning documentary No Other Land, now playing at Robinson Film Center, takes just that kind of granular look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Basel Adra comes from a family of Palestinian activists living in the West Bank villages of Masafer Yatta. From an early age, he filmed attempts by the Israeli army to drive the Palestinians out of the land. In the film he shares his memories of his father being arrested for leading protests, and now Basel is taking on a leadership role.

Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist sent to cover the conflict in Masafer Yatta. He meets Basel, and they form an alliance, and even a friendship, as they work together to shed light on the situation in the West Bank.

No Other Land is a unique opportunity to take a look behind the headlines that frame and shape our Western understanding to see that beyond the struggle for control, there are very real struggles to survive. And maybe even an opportunity to co-exist.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE FRIEND Movie Preview

April 18, 2025

We all process grief differently. Some of us get a Great Dane. Or, if you are Iris in the film The Friend — now playing at Robinson Film Center — you have a Great Dane thrust upon you.

 Iris, played beautifully by Naomi Watts, is a writer struggling with both her emotions and her creativity. Part of the reason is coping with the loss of her best friend (and ex-husband) Walter (Bill Murray). As his final act toward Iris, Walter leaves instructions that she is to take care of the dog. Or at least that’s what Iris is led to believe. It might have been a desperate ploy by Walter’s widow to unload the animal.

 Either way, Iris winds up with the gentle giant in her tiny apartment. From there the films becomes an exploration of the classic human-pet theme of “Who rescued whom?”

Apollo — the Great Dane — is struggling with the loss of his master. Iris realizes she is coping with more than losing Walter. His death triggers memories of the loss of her father and a struggle with her writing.

 Along the way, an ensemble of friends and colleagues do their best to help Iris and Apollo cope, and to convince Iris to do right by Apollo. But Iris and Apollo must come to terms with Walter’s death together — just the two of them. And together, they learn to live and love again.

The Friend is a poignant look at our complicated relationships with each other and with our pets. It’s about finding both our human spirit and our spirit animal.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: WARFARE Movie Preview

April 15, 2025

We have all seen them before — those war movies where the battle scenes feel so fake and contrived. Like White Christmas. That’s a war movie, right?

Well trust me, you won’t get any of that in Warfare, now playing at Robinson Film Center.

Warfare is the story of a platoon of Navy Seals in Iraq in 2006. It features a gritty realism that elevates the viewers blood pressure and the intensity of the connection to the characters.

It has the strong realism because it was written by a man who was there. Iraqi War veteran Ray Mendoza wrote and directed Warfare with Alex Garland, and he dedicated the film to his brother in arms Elliott Miller, who was severely injured and suffered brain trauma in a mission that went horribly wrong for their platoon, which serves as the plot of the movie.

The movie is a proper tribute to Mendoza’s fellow soldiers that presents the brutal reality of war and dignity of those fighting.

The filmmakers move deftly between two sides of trauma that have to play on a solder’s mind. There are quiet minutes that seem like hours as the men wait for something to happen. And hours that seem like seconds when something actually does.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE PENGUIN LESSONS Movie Preview

April 4, 2025

What do you do when you grow weary of political chaos, personal loss and just a general malaise? Well, you should go see The Penguin Lessons at Robinson Film Center. 

It was much harder for Tom Michell. He actually had to learn the lessons first hand.

The film is inspired by Michell’s memoir with the same title. It opens with his arrival in Argentina in 1976 to teach English at an elite boarding school. Michell, played by Steve Coogan, arrives in a cynical, sarcastic, and jaded state, searching for freedom, but mostly from himself. When a coup leads to the school being closed for a week, Michell slips off to Uruguay, in search of a little life and love. He finds it not in the arms of a woman, but in a penguin he rescues in a bid to impress the girl. He takes the bird back to school with him, where the penguin gets the name Juan Salvador and becomes sort of a mascot.

Juan Salvador strikes a deep nerve in Michell. The bird becomes Michell’s silent therapist, helping the scared and troubled man find the two things he is missing most — himself and his freedom. Before long, he is learning the lessons he is teaching his students — to rise like lions and see beyond their circumstances.

Make time to go see The Penguin Lessons and learn a bit from Juan Salvador yourself. He is a patient and loving teacher. All he asks is for a fish every now and then.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: DEATH OF A UNICORN Movie Preview

March 28, 2025

What do you get when you mix together Medieval legend, the most grim of fairy tales, a little Jurassic Park, and some Alien — you know, for the dramatic effect — with a healthy dose of snarky sarcasm? You get Death of a Unicorn, now playing at Robinson Film Center.

It’s a creative dark comedy/monster film that features Paul Rudd as Elliot and Jenna Ortega as his daughter, Ridley. The film opens with them on a trip to meet Elliot’s eccentric boss, pharmaceutical CEO Odell. Elliot and Ridley are struggling to get along since the death of Ridley’s mother. Elliot believes this opportunity with his boss could be just the turning point they need.

He really needed to swerve to miss the unicorn standing in the road. But he plowed right into it, and that’s when the whole adventure takes a twisted turn.

When it’s discovered that the unicorn has healing power, it becomes Odell’s obsession. But there is a dark side to the legendary creature. When it manifests, the hunter becomes the hunted, and the game is on.

It’s Ridley, the troubled yet virtuous young maiden, who resolves the legend of the unicorn and saves the day, and the relationship, with her father.

Death of a Unicorn is a clever film that is a send up of many of the classic monster films that seem to inspire it. It’ll have you catching your breath, only to release it with a hearty guffaw a moment later.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: THE ASSESSMENT Movie Preview

March 21, 2025

Admit it, you have had the thought, “There ought to be a test people have to pass in order to have kids.”

Oh, you might not have ever said it, but you thought it once or twice.

Well, The Assessment, which is currently playing at Robinson Film Center, starts with exactly that premise. But the test takes some unexpected twists and turns into a dark evaluation of the human psyche, like a really extreme Kobayashi Maru.

Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel play Mia and Aaryan, a couple who desire to have a child in a population-controlled future. They have applied for a child and now must face the Assessment — a seven-day evaluation of determine whether they will be allowed a child.

Alicia Vikander stars as Virginia, the assessor. She moves magnificently between the wild abandon of a belligerent, spoiled brat and and the guile of a cold psychological terrorist.

Through the course of her assessment, Virgina tests Mia’s and Aaryan’s mental, emotional and psychological aptitude to be parents. She plays on all kinds of parental fears, from tantrums to losing a child to “some assembly required” to the fear of making the same mistakes our parents did.

The conclusion of the assessment sends everyone, including the audience, into a spiraling series of unexpected events. No, I won’t give it away here. You’ve got to see it for yourself.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: ANORA Movie Preview

March 14, 2025

If you missed the Academy Award winning film Anora the first time around, Robinson Film Center is offering you a second chance.

 Anora is, in essence, a story about how chasing dreams sometimes turns into a nightmare. It’s a roller-coaster ride of fast-paced twists and turns. Throughout the film, the viewer isn’t quite sure where they are going next. And that’s what makes it so impressive.

 The story’s well-executed plot twists don’t follow any formula you have seen before. It’s that kind of innovation that earned the film Best Original Screenplay.

 But their brightest light on the screen is Best Actress winner Mikey Madison as the title character. Anora, or Ani, as she prefers, is making the most of a hard life. And just when she thinks she’s grabbed the brass ring that will lift her out of her situation, she slips into a chaotic fall deeper into her abyss.

 Madison dominates the screen with so much grit and passion that the audience can’t help but weep for her tragic situation and celebrate her catharsis at the end.

 Director Sean Baker set a record at this year’s Academy Awards by winning four Oscars for a single film. In addition to Madison’s Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay, Anora won Best Director, Best Film Editing and the grandest prize of all, Best Picture.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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The Scooter Scoop: MICKEY 17 Movie Preview

March 7, 2025

After some delays on the release date, Mickey17 is out at Robinson Film Center, and it is worth the wait. Mickey17 follows the life of Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” on a journey to colonize the distant planet Niflheim. Mickey takes the job out of desperation to escape the life he’s living on Earth. But he didn’t read all the fine print before signing up.

In the film, technology has advanced to the place where Mickey’s body can be regenerated, or reprinted, when he dies. His memories, personality and other critical data are stored and simply downloaded into each iteration of Mickey. So he is, well, expendable. When one Mickey dies, a new one is printed and picks up where the old one left off.

Mickey17 has something for everyone. It is an action-packed sci-fi political satire with just enough rom-com for some flavor. But at its core, the film is an existential dive into the permanence of death.

You see, Mickey Barnes feels like he has no other choice. He’s running away from something on Earth, and he never considers the ramifications of what he runs to. He’s constantly asked,“What’s it like to die?” But ultimately, he winds up facing his own mortality. He faces the fact that the answer to the question is dying is scary, and he hates it. From there, Mickey begins to pursue a more important question: “What’s it like to really live?”

Mickey 17 is based on the book Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. It stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey, Naomi Ackie as Nasha, Steven Yeun as Timo, Anamaria Vartolomei as Kaiand, and Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth Marshall. It is directed by Bong Joon-ho, who also directed Oscar winning Parasite.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications

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