A few years ago, Hollywood clearly decided it was far better to recycle or re-mix old stories than to write new ones. It’s actually been occurring for many, many years ...
There’s an emptiness that engulfs Disney’s OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL from the opening scenes through the duration of the film. It’s partly due to the general shal...
The prologue picks up right after the 1974 events, which started with a van full of hippie teenagers and ended with Leatherface swinging his beloved power tool wildly in ...
Most kids don’t have nightmares where they wake up screaming, “It was the rabbit!” Just as most kids wouldn’t get the urge to smash a helpless rabbit to death wit...
There are many things to like about Ang Lee’s LIFE OF PI, but what I find the most fascinating is not anything that Lee did, but the fact that everyone sees something d...
In a recent earnings call, Dreamworks CEO Jeff Katzenberg announced that they were laying off 350 people from their animation department, due mainly to the estimated $85 ...
Between 1995 and 2004, Pixar released six outstanding movies in a row, starting with TOY STORY and ending with THE INCREDIBLES. In the middle of that streak was the 200...
Disney’s WRECK-IT RALPH sets everything up perfectly. It started by establishing an interesting world where video game characters live in their own world at the arcad...
Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat; there was absolutely no reason to convert TOP GUN to 3D. It seems completely frivolous and even illogical when you re...
On a personal level, one of the things that really bothers me in movies and in real life is animal suffering. So you can imagine that as a dog lover, I entered into Tim...
