“The Adventures of Tintin” is a motion-capture animation film, based on the comics/graphic novels and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. If you’re a big fan of the Tintin character and you enjoy action/adventures films such as Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones” series then you’ll love “Tintin”. If not, there’s still enough here to give it […]
Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese is best-known for making gritty adult crime dramas, thrillers and biopics. “Hugo” is both his first 3D film and his first family film. While “Hugo” continues to be promoted as a family adventure and two of it’s main characters are a pre-teen boy and girl, Scorsese’s new effort is […]
Over the past five years Sony Pictures Animation has produced some outstanding animated films, including “Open Season”, “Surf’s Up” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.” For “Arthur Christmas” they partnered with Aardman (the Wallace and Gromit folks) and together they created a modern holiday classic. James McAvoy (who also voiced Gnomeo is this year’s […]
“The Muppets” is the first Muppet movie since 1999’s “Muppets in Space”. Following a long lay-off and recent partnership with Disney, Kermit this new adventure for Kermit and his friends is a major success, even though it didn’t do as great at the Box Office as it should have. Jason Segal co-wrote the script and […]
I was not a big fan of 2006’s “Happy Feet” and became even less of a fan when it went on to win the Academy Award that year for Best Animated Feature (beating-out “Cars”, a much, much better film). Unfortunately “Happy Feet Two” is an even more painful viewing experience than the original. “Happy Feet” […]
Adam Sandler’s movie career consists of several early hits (“Happy Gilmore”, “Billy Madison”) and some more recent clunkers (“Grown-Ups”). The main problem with Sandler’s bad comedies is that they include more disgusting and disturbing humor than actual funny lines and scenes. While “Jack and Jill” has it’s share of fart jokes and adult references it […]
Here’s the best way I can sum-up “Puss in Boots”: It’s so much fun that even Shrek would love it. DreamWorks re-introduced the fairy tale cat to the movie public in “Shrek 2” back in 2004 and he immediately became one of the most popular characters of the “Shrek” ensemble. And now, eight years (and […]
“Dolphin Tale” is inspired by the true story of an amazing animal. And while most of the human characters in the film aren’t based on real people, the star – a bottlenose dolphin named Winter – actually plays herself! The movie begins with Winter being discovered washed ashore by Sawyer (Nathan Gamble). Sawyer isn’t looking […]
“Spy Kids” was released in 2001 and was one of the top 20 films that year. Two sequels followed (“Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams” in 2002 and 2003’s “Spy Kids 3D: Game Over”). Eight years later we get a third sequel in 3D. When released in theaters in August the movie featured […]
Let me start by pointing out that I am not a “Gleek”. I’ve seen parts of a few episodes of “Glee” but that’s it. And I never thought the show would become the huge hit that it is. When I spoke with actress Jane Lynch (who’s won an Emmy for playing tough phys. ed. coach […]