Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) finds a feather in Columbia Pictures’ Where The Crawdads Sing.

So now we’re at the mid-point of the cinematic “travel-palooza” that has taken up most of the spots at the nation’s multiplexes this Summer. Since the Marvel heroes have taken us to distant worlds and maniacal multiverses, how about something a bit closer to home, say the East Coast of the US? Oh, and for this flick let’s turn to a mainstay of movies, namely an adaptation of a very popular (still on those lists) literary best seller. To be honest I wasn’t familiar with the source material and thought it was in the “young adult” category, much like those Hunger Games novels. Ah, but this is more of an “all ages” page-turner, maybe more of a “beach read” now made into a “watch”. It certainly seems to have “something for everyone” in...