Valerie Kalfrin

Florida, Tampa

Writer, Editor and Script Consultant at Freelance

Film/culture/screenwriting. Words @AWFJ @ebertvoices @HeatVision @theirleague @scriptmag. Tell better stories. Tell stories better. valeriek109 (at) https://t.co/yk87j88z6i

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Articles

FAIRY CREEK - Review by Valerie Kalfrin

1 week ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × A crowd of largely twentysomethings gathers in a mountainside campsite after dark, where a young woman with a headlamp powers a turntable and a laptop, spinning electronic beats. As the crowd grooves, a young man juggles what looks like blue orbs. Two officers from the Royal Canadian Mountain Police trudge up the path toward them, then stop outside a line of tape, checking on things.
'Your Friends & Neighbors' Creator Jonathan Tropper Crafts a Protagonist Underwater with a Wry Touch

1 week ago | scriptmag.com | Valerie Kalfrin

Coop, the protagonist of the new AppleTV+ series Your Friends & Neighbors, is having one heck of a night. Played by Emmy winner Jon Hamm (Mad Men), he awakens wincing on a marble floor in a palatial suburban home, blood pooling beneath him. He feels around his head until noticing it’s from the dead man nearby. Coop scrambles to his feet, gaining the presence of mind to clean up his shoe prints.
Weaving The Handmaid’s Tale: Showrunners Yahlin Chang and Eric Tuchman on Finding Humanity in the Final Season

1 week ago | scriptmag.com | Valerie Kalfrin

A passenger train slices through the night in the sixth and final season premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale, barreling toward an uncertain future. It’s as much a setup for the perils facing its characters as writing the show. “Every season, I feel like we start with a totally blank slate,” said showrunner and writer Yahlin Chang (Supergirl), who joined the Primetime Emmy–winning Hulu series in season two.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECONING - Review by Valerie Kalfrin

1 week ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Tom Cruise has always been the propulsive force of the Mission: Impossible franchise. He’s scaled the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, clung to the side of an airbus during takeoff, skydived over Paris, and jumped a motorcycle off a cliff in Norway …We’re at the point where a new Mission: Impossible film has the subtext my teen calls, “Watch Tom Cruise cheat death another time,” itself a narrative that eclipses whatever his onscreen agent Ethan Hunt and team are doing.
LILO & STITCH - Review by Valerie Kalfrin

2 weeks ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Lilo & Stitch, the new mostly live-action version of Disney’s 2002 Lilo & Stitch, is … fine. Yet-another mining of the Disney catalogue, it’s an inoffensive adaptation that feels familiar, comfortable, and completely unnecessary. I sound like I’m channeling the titular blue alien before he discovered ohana and people who love him, antennae, six legs and all.
KNOCK OUT BLONDE: THE KELLIE MALONEY STORY - Review by Valerie Kalfrin

3 weeks ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Boxing manager and promoter Frank Maloney once said representing Lennox Lewis as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world was “like a boy’s dream come true.”But inside, Maloney felt like a fraud, having often dreamed he was a girl. The documentary Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story reveals how Maloney, a parent of three daughters, became one of the most well-known transgender people in Britain.
ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR - Review by Valerie Kalfrin

1 month ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Another Simple Favor is more a travelogue for Italy’s stunning island of Capri than a satisfying mystery, with more twists to track than the island’s jackknifing roads. The Amazon Prime film reunites Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively of 2018’s comedic thriller A Simple Favor, where mommy vlogger Stephanie (Kendrick, Woman of the Hour) tracked down the disappearance of her friend, upper-class mom Emily (Lively, It Ends with Us).
THUNDERBOLTS* - Review by Valerie Kalfrin

1 month ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Thunderbolts*, the latest Marvel Studios adventure, at first looks to be yet-another story about a ragtag band forced to work together to save the world from a larger threat—until it passes the midpoint. There, the film twists into something disturbing, then thoughtful and nearly sublime. I didn’t expect a superhero film that played up the jokes in the trailers to become an earnest metaphor for positive mental health and dealing with trauma, but I’m all for it.
Lessons From the Film: The Story Elements That Make Sinners Devine

1 month ago | scriptmag.com | Valerie Kalfrin

With Sinners, writer-director Ryan Coogler creates an inventive Southern Gothic vampire story pulsing with the Delta blues and Irish folk music. Yet beyond the bloodletting, the film serves audiences a multilayered tale to sink their teeth into featuring complex character relationships and a rich historical setting.
5 Tips for Selling an Older Home Like a Fine Wine Aging Gracefully

1 month ago | homelight.com | Valerie Kalfrin

When putting your home on the market, you’re not competing against brand-new construction as much as you might think. According to 2018 estimates from the American Community Survey, about 43% of the nation’s 136 million housing units were built between 1970 and 1999.