A plucky chick and hoity-toity storks help this family-friendly animation take flight
This competently crafted animated feature, a Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium co-production, posits the story of a sparrow (voiced by Cooper Kelly Kramer) called Richard, a name so oddly quotidian for a cartoon hero one has to wonder if it has a different resonance in central Europe.
Orphaned as a chick when his parents are cruelly taken by a weirdly drawn animal one can only assume is meant to be a cat, Richard is adopted by a family of hoity-toity bourgeois storks. Later, it comes as a shock to learn that he is not a stork and, when his adoptive family flies off to make their annual migration to Africa, Richard is determined to catch up with them. New characters join him on the journey, including a ditsy but savant-like Owl (Shannon Conley), much like the Ellen DeGeneres character in the Finding Nemo and Finding Dory films,...
This competently crafted animated feature, a Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium co-production, posits the story of a sparrow (voiced by Cooper Kelly Kramer) called Richard, a name so oddly quotidian for a cartoon hero one has to wonder if it has a different resonance in central Europe.
Orphaned as a chick when his parents are cruelly taken by a weirdly drawn animal one can only assume is meant to be a cat, Richard is adopted by a family of hoity-toity bourgeois storks. Later, it comes as a shock to learn that he is not a stork and, when his adoptive family flies off to make their annual migration to Africa, Richard is determined to catch up with them. New characters join him on the journey, including a ditsy but savant-like Owl (Shannon Conley), much like the Ellen DeGeneres character in the Finding Nemo and Finding Dory films,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Leeds Hill Cabaret, Shannon Conley Hedwig and Daniel Edwards Anything Goes along with Lisa Ortiz voice actress and Mike Greco musician volunteered to do an improv performance of the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, as part of the world's largest scavenger hunt, Gishwhes, hosted by TV star Misha Collins Supernatural. The two-minute skit, where Hill plays the majority opinion and Conley the dissenting opinion, both in drag for their roles, is below...
- 8/12/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
A 19-year-old Denver woman who attempted to fly to Syria to join Isis has been sentenced to four years in prison. On April 8, 2014, Shannon Conley went to Denver International Airport and checked her baggage for a flight heading to Frankfurt, Germany. From there, she planned to fly to Turkey, and hoped to end up in Syria. Authorities arrested her before her flight left Denver. According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by People, Conley told authorities that she had struck up an online relationship with a 32-year-old man who claimed to be in Syria fighting on behalf of Isis. She...
- 1/26/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
A 19-year-old Denver woman who attempted to fly to Syria to join Isis has been sentenced to four years in prison. On April 8, 2014, Shannon Conley went to Denver International Airport and checked her baggage for a flight heading to Frankfurt, Germany. From there, she planned to fly to Turkey, and hoped to end up in Syria. Authorities arrested her before her flight left Denver. According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by People, Conley told authorities that she had struck up an online relationship with a 32-year-old man who claimed to be in Syria fighting on behalf of Isis. She...
- 1/26/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
Web television aficionados will probably find Downsized to be something of an enigma through the first few episodes, and with good reason. As is the case with other mediums, the most successful of web series tend deal in the currency of escapism, whether they're meme-ripe comedies or eye-dazzling action/adventures. Downsized, on the other hand, has no interest in taking us away from the real world or its concerns. It's instead best described as a series of dramatic vignettes, following three sets of characters throug lean times while providing a clear message: everybody feels the recession, but they do so in their own, personal way. The characters are familiar, not because of their conformity to archetypes or because we've seen them before, but rather because they're so close to real. There's Beth (writer and director Daryn Strauss), the smart, career woman who's brusquely let go from her company; Lowell (Duncan Murdoch...
- 11/14/2009
- by Devon Grandy
- Tubefilter.com
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