Movie and TV Reviews.
(l to r.) Courtney, Norman, Alvin, Neil, and Mitch hit the road – and something else – in ParaNorman, the new 3D stop-motion comedy thriller from LAIKA and Focus Features, directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler. Credit: LAIKA, Inc.
If 2013 quickly begins to look like 1988, you’re not crazy. The great triumvirate of action stars (and Expendables buddies) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis return to cinemas laying the smackdown with their own respective starring films. February kicks off with Sly’s Bullet to the Head, and V-Day brings the fifth(!) entry of […]
The first episode of the venerable Star Trek sci-fi series was aired on September 22, 1966, and spawned an entertainment tour de force that, despite some rocky times in syndication and various states of cancellation, continues to chug along even today more than 30 years later. But with the passing of time, the weathering of […]
The durability of the human spirit comes into focus under the expanded eye of Ang Lee’s ambitious opus Life of Pi. Think the attempted magnificent reach of this year’s earlier tanker Cloud Atlas molded down into Cast Away. I won’t say Ang Lee, an auteur of his own making, entirely succeeds in his gargantuan spiritual […]
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