Let it be known up front that I’m not a fan of the ‘Ice Age’ series. The voice cast is sub-par. (Who honestly believes that Ray “Monotone” Romano is a good choice for an animated kids’ movie?) T...
We home theater enthusiasts have a tendency to be obsessive tinkerers, constantly upgrading our equipment, recalibrating and adding new devices to eke just a smidge better performance out of our audio and video gear. Over the year...
Every other site that reports weekend box office numbers is selling the opening of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ short. Most of today’s box office headlines read something like, “Spider-Man Reboot Opens Very Wel...
When it was first announced that ‘(500) Days of Summer’ director Marc Webb was at the helm for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, I couldn’t have been more excited. The brief teaser trailer fueled that excitem...
This week’s top new Blu-ray release is so good that it (almost) leaves me speechless. I’ll see if I can muster a few words about it (and the rest of the new Blu-ray slate) anyway.
I’m all for the re-imagining of historical events with a genre twist. ‘X-Men: First Class’ did that very well; it was fun and playful. However, ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ isn’t. Constantl...
If you’ve heard any of the rumors about Pixar’s problematic path to ‘Brave’, then you should already know what to expect – a kid’s movie that’s far from perfect. I hadn’t paid much attenti...
A couple months ago, I posted the news that an audience test screening of footage from Peter Jackson’s upcoming ‘The Hobbit’ film was widely greeted with negative reactions, primarily due to the director’s ...
I don’t believe that this is as good as the Blu-ray release schedule gets. In fact, it’s a pretty dull week on the whole. More exciting things will come eventually. However, a few titles of note are still worth taking ...
This weekend’s box office defied expectations. Neither of the two new openers ended where predictions placed them. Even so, the weekend was up 30% from last summer.
Among sci-fi fans and film buffs, Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ prequel ‘Prometheus’ (and don’t believe any of Scott’s misdirection that the movie’s not really an ‘Alien’ preque...
One of my Big Three most anticipated movies of the summer opens this weekend – and, no, it’s not the ‘Madagascar’ three-quel.
