Last year’s best picture, despite what the Oscars proclaimed, was Gravity. This year gravity is back, but as an important part of the movie Interstellar. Last year’s Best Actor winner, Matthew McConaughey, has a great back up cast in Interstellar, including several vets, at least one of which has won a Best Actress award. Interstellar … Read more
Box office results show Sin City II: A Dame to Die For is DOA. The opening weekend box office results were a little below the last Little Lulu cartoon to hit the big screen. This despite a cast including Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, … Read more
In the hunt for Oscar Statuettes, Captain Phillips should be available for DVD viewing before the award ceremonies on March 2nd. The question is, will it win? And more important, do you want to see it? All in good time. Like all well-known historical stories, the film’s suspense is dependent on the skill of the … Read more
This long-time-coming pet project of Steven Spielberg’s has finally made it to the big screen. It runs two and a half hours and covers a period from January to April of 1865. This is the last three and a half months of the Lincoln presidency. As it turns out, although Lincoln is the key character, … Read more
Both rated PG for scary images and possibly inappropriate material for 1 year olds Halloween is almost here. If you have visited Disneyland you know it arrived in mid-September. Instead of, or in addition to, candy this year, give the little ones an introduction to mystery, spooks, ghosts and a very human-acting dog. Scooby Doo … Read more
Sony Pictures has decided to produce another round of Spiderman movies that start at the beginning of the story. The last trio of films, staring Toby McGuire, were box office blockbusters so it was only a matter of time before the story was retooled. The last films premiered in 2002, 2004, and 2007, which means … Read more
The original title of Brave was The Bear and the Bow. Why did they change it? If you’ve seen the preview, you might think you have some idea of what this film is about. But you don’t. Why not? The reason why not is because none of the scenes in the preview actually appear in … Read more
In Third Man on the Mountain Disney brings to the screen a fictional telling of the first climb of a Swiss peak called the Citadel. The real life mountain is the Matterhorn. Filmed on location in and around the Matterhorn, as well as Kanton Wallis standing in for the town of Zermatt, it is one … Read more
Walt Disney had the unique opportunity to bring his heroes to life and live vicariously through them on screen. He also served as a great inspiration to 7 to 12 year olds especially in the late 1950’s when he brought many heroes to the screen like Davy Crockett, Johnny Tremain, Old Yeller, and the Robinson … Read more
On 1/24/12 the group that handles the Oscar nominations announced the 2011 slate of Best Films. For the last couple of years they have been nominating 10 films instead of the more traditional 5 titles. I suspect this was because Hollywood has a stake, a really big stake, in seeing films succeed financially if not … Read more