Fresh-off it’s 4 wins at this year’s Oscars – including a 2nd Best Director statue for Ang Lee – “Life of Pi” hits store shelves/PPV. In a year of great films, including “Argo”, “Lincoln”, “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Les Miserables”, I’m still stunned that this took home more Oscars than any 2012 release. Based on […]
From the trailers, “Wreck-It Ralph” looked to be fun, unique, bright, and special. Unfortunately, while it is colorful, this Disney animated comedy is underwhelming. Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) is the villain in a 30-year-old arcade game called “Fix-It Felix, Jr.” Ralph is tired of being the bad guy and desperately wants a hero […]
“Trouble with the Curve” stars Clint Eastwood, and he’s not behind the camera this time, just in front. He plays Gus, a longtime baseball scout for the Atlanta Braves who’s starting to…well…get old. He’s losing his vision but doesn’t want to tell anyone so he can continue his job watching games and evaluating players. But […]
Disney’s live-action family film for the summer of 2012 was “The Odd Life of Timothy Green”. It was a bit of an odd choice, since the story doesn’t really appeal to kids. And it showed at the box office. Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton star as Cindy and Jim Green. The couple learns, after years […]
The “Ice Age” movies make-up one of the most successful animated franchises of all-time. Each of the first three films grossed close to $200 million domestically, and Fox produced a nice Holiday special starring the gang last November. Unfortunately the latest in the series – “Continental Drift” – is the worst of the bunch, with […]
The “Spider-Man” movie franchise has been hugely successful at the box office. The original trilogy (’02, ’04, ’07, starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst) made close to $2.5 billion worldwide. When I heard Sony was going to “re-imagine” this series so quickly, I thought it was too soon. Aren’t there other stories out there to […]
They built this movie…(dramatic pause)…They built this movie on Rock ‘N Roll. And a half-naked Tom Cruise. Those are literally the two elements that keep this film adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical “Rock of Ages” from completely crumbling apart. This is not your typical movie, or your typical movie musical. The time is 1987. […]
Vampires are more popular than ever right now in the entertainment world, thanks to “The Twilight Saga” and TV shows such as “True Blood” and “The Vampires Diaries”. Hard to imagine that they were also big 40-years ago, on daytime TV of all places. But that was the case. And now Johnny Depp and Tim […]
Brad Bird is best known for directing critically acclaimed animated movies, such as “The Iron Giant” and Disney/Pixar’s “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille” (both which won him Oscars). He ventures into live-action for the first time with “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”, the fourth installment of the series that began 15 years ago. And much like […]
– You know a comedy’s not funny when the only laughs come from the bloopers during the end credits. – You know a movie has bad performances when even the one guy playing himself does a terrible job. – And you know when a movie is going after cheap emotions when it includes a dying […]