I took my three year old daughter with me to see “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”. She sat through the whole thing without fidgeting, so that’s a ringing endorsement from the three year old set. Me, however, I was fidgeting a bit. “Madagascar 2” is about Ben Stiller’s character, Alex, a gay dancing lion who unexpectedly…
DetailsBrendan Fraser needs an intervention. Seriously. I like the guy. If I knew him personally I would get a few good actors together and when he came through the door and said “What’s going on?” we would lock the door and tell him he’s not allowed to be in shitty movies for at least 24…
Details“King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” is an amazing documentary. Some documentaries educate, inform and expose and some propagandize. Very few transcend their subject matter, and “King of Kong” does. In 2003, 35 year old family man Steve Wiebe, (pronounced WEEBEE) after losing his job at Boeing, found some comfort in playing Donkey Kong…
DetailsStealthily making its way into stores and video rental houses is the “Animatrix” inspired take on Batman. Not too much hype, as Batman’s bigger cousin, “The Dark Knight” is getting all the attention. But hey, don’t forget this interesting though imperfect stepchild. It’s worth your time. Supposedly bridging the gap between Christopher Nolan’s two Batman…
DetailsThe question on everyone’s mind is: Is this movie better than the “The Nude Bomb”? Okay, maybe that’s the question on no one’s mind. But yes, it is, in case you were wondering. It’s also even better than that horrible Andy Dick/”New Get Smart” show that lasted about two episodes. “Get Smart” basically takes the…
DetailsI have to say I was a bit surprised by this movie. It was better than I thought it would be, but I don’t know if that was because I had rather low expectations, or because I saw the trailer for Jim Carrey’s “Yes Man” play before it which made me think even if the…
DetailsOkay, so we’ve been waiting for this. When were we going to get something as cool as ”The Nightmare Before Christmas” again? “Corpse Bride” was OK but not great. Maybe it was a onetime thing. I was starting to think it just wouldn’t happen again. I am extremely happy to report that “Coraline” is absolutely…
DetailsPrince Caspian is a surprising movie for a number of reasons. For one, it’s much darker and more violent than “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe”. Secondly, the Christian symbolism is even more apparent. Thirdly, I’ve never seen a mouse with a sword kill so many people. But is it a good movie? The…
Details“Choke” is a movie that wants so badly to be great but settles for being good. I was still entertained and enjoyed myself but there wasn’t really anything ground breaking or new here, movie-wise. Based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel “Choke” is about a Sex addict and colonial theme park worker who scams people in…
DetailsI saw two movies this weekend. “Drag Me to Hell” and “Away We Go”. Not a whole lot of overlap on those two movies except for the fact that both titles imply some type of movement, willing or unwilling. So, two completely different movies. But after seeing both and thinking about it, there was one…
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