“Men in Black” was a surprise hit at the box office in 1997, and lifted the careers of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones to new heights. Five years later, “Men in Black II” was released, and while it wasn’t as big a hit with critics, it still made a lot of money. Now, after […]
I was worried going into “Battleship” for a couple of reasons: 1) It looked a lot like “Transformers” and 2) How in the world can anyone make a two-hour movie based on a very simple board game? Well, Universal and Hasbro have done it, and the result is an incredibly bad film that sinks to […]
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 […]
It was the big screen event diehard superhero comic book and film fans had been waiting for. And “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the rare movie that exceeded expectations. After “Iron Man” became a box office hit and re-launched Robert Downey, Jr.’s career, Marvel Studios released “The Incredible Hulk” (starring Edward Norton) and “Iron Man 2”, […]
Aardman Animation is best known for their stop-motion, claymation films and shorts, many of them involving the characters Wallace and Gromit, and most of them award-winning. On the big screen Aardman has given us 2000’s “Chicken Run” and 2005’s “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” and, more recently, the studio provided character development […]
Disneynature has had much success with their Earth Day documentaries: 2009’s “Earth” was about our entire planet, primarily focusing on polar bears, whales and elephants and was narrated by James Earl Jones. 2010’s “Oceans”, narrated by Pierce Brosnan, took us under the sea. And last year’s “African Cats”, about lion and cheetah families, was narrated […]
Most everyone knows that The Three Stooges were a classic comedy trio that began back in the 1920’s. They were famous for their outrageous slapstick and were very popular both on TV and in movies. Now, more than 60 years after the original Moe, Larry and Curly ended their run as the Stooges, they’re being […]
“Titanic” was the biggest movie of all-time (with $600M) from 1998-2010 before James Cameron’s next movie – the overrated “Avatar” – took over. “Titanic” is the top movie to stay consecutively at the #1 spot at the box office (15 weeks from Dec. 19, 1997 to Mar. 29, 1998). It won 11 Oscars (tying the […]
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Snow White is the fairest…the 1937 Disney animated Snow White. 75 years later, Hollywood is in a “Snow White” craze with two big releases based on the fairy tale in the first half of 2012. “Snow White and the Huntsman” is a well done […]
2010’s “Clash of the Titans” (the remake of the 1981 cult favorite) was one of the worst films of that, or any year: lame story, awful dialogue and cheap special effects, including an incredibly bad 3D post-conversion. Not much differs between that film and this totally unnecessary sequel, except for Sam Worthington’s hairdo. “Wrath of […]