Michael Ordoña has covered film and television for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. He has also reviewed movies for Common Sense Media. He is an alumnus of both the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Berkeley High School, and freely admits to a blatant Bay Area bias in all sports.
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If you wanted a hard-R “Parent Trap” musical with grown-up alpha-male jerks for the kids and Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally as the parents, you’re in luck.
Oct. 6, 2023
Will new October releases such as “Exorcist Believer” and “Five Nights at Freddie’s” slash their way to the top of the all-time list? Not likely, if history is an indicator.
Oct. 2, 2023
Will Taylor Swift show for tonight’s Chiefs-Jets games? Real or not, the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce pop culture moment is generating its share of haters. Perhaps they need to calm down.
Oct. 1, 2023
Michael Peña stars as José M. Hernández, the first migrant worker to go to space, in the Prime Video biopic ‘A Million Miles Away.’
Sept. 15, 2023
The spinoff, which stars Norman Reedus and was shot in France, had different visual ambitions from “The Walking Dead.” Vive le différence!
Sept. 10, 2023
From Hollywood big shots like Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott to our favorite indie provocateurs, here are the 20 films we’re most thrilled to line up for.
Aug. 30, 2023
Sure, there are TIE fighter chases, menacing droids and space prisons, but the real triumph of “Andor’s” Emmy-nominated VFX is making otherworldly environments feel down-to-Earth.
Aug. 18, 2023
The thrilling dragon fight in the “House of the Dragon” Season 1 finale shows how far visual effects capabilities have come since “Game of Thrones.”
Aug. 15, 2023
It’s sci-fi, but a period piece. It’s a coming-of-age story — with a space monster in it. It’s a prequel that’s a clear improvement over its predecessors. But most important, it’s a crowd-pleasing action movie with an Indigenous cast.
Aug. 8, 2023
The National Geographic documentary charts Uganda’s unlikely political showdown, between a popular celebrity running for highest office and an authoritarian.
July 28, 2023