There are a number of elements that you might need in place before you sit down to watch Les Armateurs’ “the Secret of Kells” (distributed by GKIDS).  First, you need to have a deep love of Celtic music.  Second, you need to be able to follow a subtle story very well.  Third, you must have [...]

Tim Burton’s 3D take on Lewis Carroll’s classic has neither the depth nor the grace to be more than a one-time “pretty” show…

Ferris has common sense, even if maybe he didn’t seem to in the 1986 classic of the adventures during his infamous “Day Off“.  Matthew Broderick recently sat down with Cinematical to talk about many things, including Broderick’s new film “Wonderful World“, and, of course, the conversation turned to the iconic teen landmark. Broderick’s take on [...]

According to the fine folks over the L.A. Times (via Chris Campbell over on Cinematical), Neill Blomkamp is intrigued by the idea of doing a prequel to his underdog success “District 9“, possibly before or instead of doing a sequel wherein the true hero of the story returns.  (If you don’t know what I mean, [...]

When it comes to major summer releases, the projected dates are set out at least a year in advance because there are only a limited number of screen that can or will host particular movies on the hottest weekends of the year (literally and figuratively).  And it’s a cut-throat business, too, man:  the photons weren’t [...]

Yesterday, it finally came down that Warner Brothers has given the go-ahead to the Green Lantern movie, as told by Karen Goulekas in her blog.  This counts as being in “the nick of time” since they’re set to start filming in ten weeks, and I’m sure there’s a lot of work that needs to be [...]

Jeff Bridges is one of those actors that I automatically want to love.  His maverick air (in the true sense of the word as a rule-breaker) gives such a distinctive flavor to everything he’s in that is hard to not enjoy his performance. “Crazy Heart” is no exception, but for his co-stars, this “distinctive flavor” [...]

Now you know where you need to be Saturday morning: Platinum Motorcars at 11430 N. Central Expressway! From 9 am until 11 am on Saturday, December 19th, 2009, 100.3 Jack FM and Lionsgate’s “the Spy Next Door” will be running a toy drive for Bryan’s House Charity.  Directly from the press release: “…Anyone who donates [...]

Disney has decided to start the process of remaking the 1979 clunker “the Black Hole” by utilizing the talent of the other Disney old-tech reboot, “Tron: Legacy”.  Joseph Kosinski (director), Sean Bailey (producer), and Travis Beacham (screenwriter) are going to try to give the “Event Horizon” predecessor a serious make-over. From a business point of [...]

By a number of accounts, the first word is “naked”. As the last two installments of the Harry Potter movie series loom ever closer, there’s a lot of speculation about how the story is going to be modified, and one of the hints that We Who Have Read It are noticing off the bat: Didn’t [...]