TMNT |
At least TMNT isn't yet another origin flick. It plays as a sequel to, well, something-or-other. The movie starts with Shredder having been defeated and the team members each doing their own semi-humo...
Posted by steve on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:09:00 PST |
A Pattern |
Bill Murray=Dr. Peter Venkman in "Ghostbusters"Lorenzo Music=Dr. Peter Venkman on "The Real Ghostbusters"Lorenzo Music=Garfield on "Garfield and Friends"Bill Murray=Garfield in "Garfield: The Movie"...
Posted by steve on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:06:00 PST |
The Living Daylights & Licence to Kill |
Timothy Dalton's two James Bond movies, "The Living Daylights" (1987) and "Licence to Kill" (1989), are among the most derided in the series, hovering somewhere around "The World is Not Enough" and "M...
Posted by steve on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:35:00 PST |
The Oregon Trail |
Once the adventurous family has made it across the country successfully a few times with only an isolated snakebite or case of dysentery, the entertainment value of "The Oregon Trail" eventually wears...
Posted by steve on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:11:00 PST |
Well, *I'm* excited. |
General Mills has brought back the fifteen-year-old spherical shape of Trix. They're inexplicably advertised as having a "new shape."...
Posted by steve on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:07:00 PST |
Pan's Labyrinth |
(Spoilers throughout)"Pan's Labyrinth" is the story of a child escaping the horrors of war by creating a fantasy world.This is a perfectly valid idea, worthy of elaboration in a film. Isao Takahata's ...
Posted by steve on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:46:00 PST |
New on DVD: Saw *** (*=picture of extracted tooth) |
One thing that "Saw III" has over "Saw II:" it's easier to say that you saw it too.Other than that, the series has now officially lost it. This is easily one of the ugliest movies ever released, in fo...
Posted by steve on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:38:00 PST |
Volver |
For a while, it seems as if Pedro Almodóvar's latest film "Volver" is suffering from dueling-plot syndrome. This affliction occurs in movies (or books or TV shows) that have a clearly superior distinc...
Posted by steve on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:31:00 PST |
Culkins everywhere |
Now here's an obscure find: "It Runs in the Family" has been (recently?) renamed "My Summer Story" in order to capitalize on the fact that it is the sequel to "A Christmas Story." (Note that this is a...
Posted by steve on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:00:00 PST |
Go see it |
The nearly unimpeachable "Children of Men" contains the most believable future seen on film in a long time. The key to this production design is the proper mix of plausible regression, stasis, and ste...
Posted by steve on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:48:00 PST |
