Since the success of both the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter series, it seems that any kind of multi-volume literary fantasy epic is being snatched up and turned into a grandiose production these days. That would explain the recent release of the first movie based on C. S.Continue Reading
Giant monster movies — especially those made in Japan during the 1960s — are usually viewed as campy, kitschy, or children’s entertainment. How seriously can a viewer take a movie that’s essentially comprised of a man in a rubber suit destroying a model of Tokyo as toy planes and tanksContinue Reading
When Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) takes the job as the night watchman at the Museum of Natural History in New York, he never dreams that he’ll be dealing with Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attilla the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), or living miniature Roman soldiers and cowboys. However, since everything in theContinue Reading
What an incredibly consistent film series the Harry Potter films are! Four films into a run of seven movies and it has yet to stumble at all. While I’m sure this can be credited to the strength of the novels by J. K. Rowling, each individual movie has had toContinue Reading
“Fear became the ultimate tool of this government,” says V (Hugo Weaving), the hero of V for Vendetta, as he speaks of the England of the near-future. America has been reduced to a shadow of its former self and England is ruled by a fascist like state that has removedContinue Reading
Think zombie movies have been done to death? Think again. French writer/director Robin Campillo has taken the genre in a new direction with They Came Back, a completely bloodless look at what would happen if the recently deceased came back from the dead. The movie wastes no time getting toContinue Reading
When I heard that Johnny Depp was going to play the role of Willy Wonka in a new movie version of the old Roald Dahl book, I thought, “That’s not a bad idea.” I’d heard this shortly after seeing Depp’s fantastic performance in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse ofContinue Reading