An Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. An Academy Award win for Best Actress. By now practically everyone know the story behind “The Blind Side”, but if you didn’t have a chance to see it when it was out in theaters, you’re in for a real treat. The moive tells the true story of football […]
The trailer for “Planet 51” began running almost a year before the film came out in theaters (Jan 16, right before “Paul Blart, Mall Cop”), and I’d probably saw that trailer and others at least 30 times before I finally got to see the actual movie. Normally that’s not a good thing – and that […]
Disney showed this second of it’s Tinker Bell direct-to-DVD series in a theater in L.A. for a week to make it elidgible for an Academy Award nomination. The studio knows it won’t get one, but be helping to make sure that there are at least 15 movies up for consideration, the studio will help get […]
Disney’s 2009 “A Christmas Carol” is finally out on DVD. The studio hoping that the #1 anti-Christmas guy – Scrooge – can make this movie a hit for the second holiday season in a row. “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” is directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also did the 2004 holiday film, “The Polar Express”. Zemeckis […]
From Thriller to Beat It to Billy Jean to Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson earned the title: The King of Pop. And if you don’t believe that, you will after you see this movie. “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” is a documentary that covers the rehearsals leading-up to what would have been his final […]
He’s a classic Japanese character and a long-time cartoon cult favorite. Last summer “Astro Boy” hit the big screen, with help from his friends in Hong Kong. “Astro Boy” is set in futuristic Metro City, where robots are smart and helpful, doing practically everything for the humans. The top robotic scientist in the land watches […]
46 years after it was first published, Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, was released as a film this past summer, to mixed reviews. “Where the Wild Things Are” follows the plot of the book: Max is a 9 year old boy who’s a little out-of-control. He’s going through some rough […]
Of all the great Disney animated films of all-time, there’s none more beloved than the original classic, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Chances are you’ve seen it, maybe several times, but you’ve never seen it like this. This “Diamond Edition” gives us an all-new, state-of-the-art, digital version of “Snow White” in both Blu-ray and […]
Originally Disney planned to release these two films separately…”1” now…and “2” in February, but when the studio decided to release another of their classics: “Beauty and the Beast” in 3-D in February, the decision was made to turn the “Toy Story” 3-D’s into a double-feature. There’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know Buzz, Woody and all […]
Movie musicals have made a comeback over the past few years, thanks to such hits as “Hairspray”, “Mama Mia” and the “High School Musical” films. But last summer’s remake of “Fame” not only won’t “live forever”, it died pretty quickly at the box office. “Fame” is a remake of the 1980 film about life at […]