Back in May, I interviewed Jennifer Yuh Nelson – the director of “Kung Fu Panda 2”. She wasn’t the first female director for a DreamWorks animated movie (Vicky Jensen co-directed “Shrek” and helmed “Shark Tale”), but she’s now in a class by herself. “KFP2” has become the top grossing film of all-time directed by a […]

The summer started out rather weak, was picked-up a bit in the middle, and finished pretty strong. Here are the nominees and the winners of the 2001 Lights-Camera-Jackson Summer Movie Awards. The winners are in bold. Best Animated Feature Cars 2 Kung Fu Panda 2 Winnie the Pooh Best Action Captain America: The First Avenger […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Universal decided not to finance and distribute the film adaptation of the board game “Clue” – which has been part of a seven movie deal they made with Hasbro in 2008. Well, here we go again! Universal has now decided to drop the “Ouija” movie, which already […]

“Monsters University” is the prequel to Disney/Pixar’s 2001 Oscar-nominated hit “Monsters Inc.” The film is about how Mike Wazowski and Sulley met in college and plan to work at Monsters, Inc. “MU” doesn’t open until June 21, 2013, but according to star Billy Crystal (who voices the one-eyed, green, likeable monster Mike), he’s already done […]

Eddie Murphy has had a successful career thanks partially to his voice work. Murphy is the voice of Mushu in Disney’s Mulan, Thurgood Orenthal Stubbs on the animated TV Series “The PJ’s”, and most notably  the voice of Donkey in all four “Shrek” movies. Soon you can add “Hong Kong Phooey” to the resume. Murphy […]

A trailer for Sony’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” came-out about a month ago and the film doesn’t open until July 3rd, 2012. But now Sony has announced the release date for “The Amazing Spider-Man #2”. The sequel will kick off the 2014 summer movie season on May 2nd. This is ridiculous! The studio doesn’t even know […]

Here’s a “clue” about which studio will be developing the new “Clue” movie based on the classic board game: it’s no longer Universal. The project is one of the seven movies that was in a deal Hasbro made with Universal back in 2008. But Universal has decided that they will no longer distribute the film […]

Blue Sky Studios (the animation company behind the “Ice Age” trilogy and most recently this year’s “Rio”) has announced a release date for their newest project. “Leafmen” will come to theaters on May 17th, 2013. This will mark the first time the studio has released a new movie three years in a row (“Ice Age: […]

This weekend three new movies open in theaters that are geared toward three different groups of people. There’s “Cowboys & Aliens” for the comic book sci-fi action fans; “Crazy Stupid Love” – a comedy for adults; and “The Smurfs” for the whole family. But which will bring in the most dough at the box office? […]

Seeing a preview screening of a movie before it’s release date is one of the advantages to being a movie critic. But there can also be some disadvantages, as I experienced with the screening of “Captain America”. At the end of the film practically everyone in the theater stayed for what they thought was going […]