Great googly-moogly! It’s another week already?! Get ready for more scintillating, tidbits of information that are sure to astound and vex! Prepare for the sound of crying and gnashing of teeth (or perhaps less of that) from self-proclaimed romantics everywhere: Nicholas Sparks Productions shuts down! That’s right, the romantic novelist’s four-year-old film and television company…
DetailsHorror movies have been in a bad, albeit relatively profitable, rut for the past forty years. Ever since The Omen (1976), Halloween (1978), but especially Friday the 13th (1980) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), the focus has shifted from victim to killer, and from triumphant heroism to elaborate certain death. Since then, virtually…
DetailsPixar, and DreamWorks Animation, had been preparing me for Finding Dory for years. It’s no secret that DreamWorks Animation was built by Jeffrey Katzenberg – the Disney man who had wanted, but was denied, the mouse house cartoon boss post — to snipe at Disney at every opportunity. When these flicks can take up to…
DetailsIt’s a difficult time for the kung fu film. The great masters are retiring, getting really, really tired, or dying. Ever since the British lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997, mother China has been tightening its strangle-hold on Hong Kong cinema, while slowly opening its arms to Hollywood – an insidious double whammy that…
DetailsTickled is so compelling, so thoroughly engrossing, so freaking enjoyable, that it deserves the kind of praise that compels you to the cinema. See this movie. It’s amazing, astonishing, jaw-dropping, revelatory, brilliant. You’ll notice I’m avoiding talking about the film itself; that’s completely deliberate, for the less you know, the better. Ostensibly it’s about the dark underbelly of competitive endurance tickling.…
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