The Princess and the Frog
After a five year hiatus, Walt Disney Animation Studios has released the next hand-drawn animated feature, The Princess and the Frog. Based on the classic tale of the Frog Prince,...
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
New Moon is one of those movies for which the plot is almost superfluous. If you are a fan of Twilight, you more or less know it. If you are not, you probably do not care. How...
Planet 51
Modern animation has benefited from two relatively recent technologies -- cheap computer animation and 3D. While the latter could be considered a gimmick (especially if the glasses give you a hea...
Where The Wild Things Are
The 1963 book is 10 sentences long, and it is a classic. The story is about the island where the child, Max, goes after being sent to bed without supper because he was out of control in the hous...
Gamer
Gamer is one of those movies that you either love or hate. Online gaming takes on new meaning in a futuristic world. In that world, players at home can direct convicts to do their bidding...
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino may be the only guy I can think of to have created his own genre. When you say it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, people pretty much know what you are talking about. That,...
Shorts
One of my biggest complaints with Hollywood in the last decade has been the lack of new ideas. More and more we're seeing remakes of classic movies -most of the time they're not that great,...
District 9
In 1966, the apartheid government forcibly relocated 60,000 people from District 6 in Cape Town. Today we see a science fiction analogue of that in the 2009 movie District 9 by Neill Blomkamp....
Julie & Julia
It's not very often that Hollywood can make TWO different books into ONE movie, but perhaps they found the perfect vehicle to try it. Julie & Julia is based on the book which is also its...
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
I had been worried about this film ever since reading in the trades about how early word of mouth was horrible, and that Paramount had put an embargo on pre-release screening by critics. At...