Cannes 2011 Winners
The 64th Festival de Cannes wrapped up this past weekend with its annual awards ceremony. The highest honor a film can receive is the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm). Acclaimed films such as ‘Taxi Driver‘, ‘Apocal...
The 64th Festival de Cannes wrapped up this past weekend with its annual awards ceremony. The highest honor a film can receive is the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm). Acclaimed films such as ‘Taxi Driver‘, ‘Apocal...
Without any conscious planning, it seems that last Friday’s Weekend Roundtable turned into something of a referendum against Steven Spielberg. Perhaps that’s not fair, but for a man who’s supposed to be one of Am...
It’s May Sweeps and TV finale time. Among the series wrapping up for the spring, ‘Castle’ brought its season to a close last week with a return to the storyline about Beckett’s investigation into her mother...
While I wouldn’t consider any of this week’s videogames to be “a hotly anticipated blockbuster hit” or any variation of that phrase, there’s still plenty of good gaming to be had, including a multipla...
While motion capture (“mocap”) has its uses, I don’t think that fully motion-captured animated features should be one of them. Do you agree?
Well, folks, it appears that we have another week where catalog titles dominate the Blu-ray scene. In fact, the release slate as a whole is a lot smaller than usual. Fortunately, there’s some quality wheat hidden among the c...
We’re down to the last eight characters in Movie Madness, and every single one of them is a big name badass in cinema. We’ve got one dark sorcerer, one terrorist killer, one zombie-slaying babe, two hardened comic book...
The Fox network promoted last week’s episode of ‘Glee’ like crazy with a huge tease that one of the show’s characters would die. As if that didn’t sound enough like a cheap ratings stunt, ‘Funer...
‘Chuck’ finally wrapped up its fourth season last week with a resolution to both the previous episode’s cliffhanger and most of the year’s running storylines. In a lot of ways, the episode sums up the seaso...
Apparently, the U.S. is the only nation to recognize how low the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series has fallen. Despite opening domestically with only $90.1 million ($25 million below the opening of 2007’s ‘...
If you can read this, then apparently the world didn’t end this weekend after all. Whew! I was nervous for a minute there. I’ve still got a bunch of stuff on my DVR to watch that I haven’t caught up with yet, and...
Even great artists stumble every once in a while. No matter how talented they may be or what great track records for quality they may have otherwise built, even the best of directors drop the occasional stink bomb. This week’...