“Race to Witch Mountain” is not only based on a book, but it’s a “re-working” of the 1975 movie, “Escape to Witch Mountain”. Dwayne (“Don’t Call Me The Rock Anymore”) Johnson stars as a taxi driver who helps a pair of teenage space aliens, who look like humans, try to get their spaceship back after […]
In 1963 writer/director Blake Edwards and actor Peter Sellers combined to create one of the most popular characters in the history of movie comedies: Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Now, 46 years later, Steve Martin took his second shot at playing Clouseau in “The Pink Panther 2”. The plot is pretty simple: Once again the legendary Pink […]
“Coraline” is adapted from a popular children’s novel about a young girl who moves into a new house with her parents. She’s not very happy being there and her mother and father don’t pay much attention to her or treat her very well. However, she discovers a small door that leads her to a strange […]
Just over two years after the original “Open Season” hit theaters, the sequel, “Open Season 2” is out as a Direct-to-DVD movie. All of the main characters from the first movie are back, though many of the voices are done by new actors. In “Open Season 2”, Elliot is set to marry Giselle but gets […]
If you never saw “The Golden Compass” or Mummy 3″ or any of the “Narnia” or “National Treasure” movies or “City of Ember” or even “Bedtime Stories” you can now see them all, on DVD, at the same time! Unfortunately, “Inkheart” is as disappointing as those other movies. Brendan Fraser stars in his typical fantasy/adventure […]
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop” is one of the funniest films I’ve seen in a long time. If you missed it when it was out, now’s your chance to see it on DVD. The movie stars Kevin James as an “out of shape” security guard who works in a New Jersey shopping mall. Blart wants to […]
There have been a lot of dog movies in recent months, including “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, “Bolt” , “Marley and Me” and “Hotel For Dogs”, which is just out on video. The movie is about a brother and sister who are living with foster-parents in a new city. When their dog runs away they go looking […]
“Bedtime Stories” was Disney’s 2008’s live-action family film for the holidays but it didn’t duplicate the success of 2007’s “Enchanted.” Adam Sandler is the hero of “Bedtime Stories”. He plays Skeeter, a maintenance worker who dreams of running the hotel that his father once owned. His sister, played by a very thin Courtney Cox, asks […]
Over the years movie studios have marketed films to families that weren’t true “family films”. The worst example of that from 2008 was”Marley and Me”, which is now out on DVD and the stduo is doing the same thing. The movie is adapted from the very popular book. Owen Wilson stars as John Grogan, a […]
It was one of the worst animated movies of 2008. No wonder they waited so long to put it out on DVD. “Delgo” is a computer-generated fantasy about a teenage boy, named Delgo, who lives on a planet where the two groups of creatures who live there are fighting each other. He and a Princess […]