Mike Judge makes the movies and TV shows he wants to make. He knows his characters and reveals them to an audience in the same way that we get to know people – prolonged exposure over a period of time. That’s how he made Office Space and King of the Hill, and that’s how he’s […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: Gamer – Making the First Person Shooter Personal!
It’s ironic that a movie that isn’t based on an actual videogame should come closer to feeling like a videogame. Gamer is the latest film from the Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor team responsible for the cinematic equivalent of a shot of adrenaline to the heart that is the Crank series. If you didn’t care for the […]
MOVIES, TELEVISION & COMIC BOOKS: Disney Buys Marvel!
Walt Disney Co. is about to lay out $4 billion to add Marvel Comics to its family – uniting Spider-Man and Mickey Mouse under the same banner. The purpose of the acquisition is to enable Disney to reconnect with the young, male audience it has been losing over the last several years. While the timing […]
TELEVISION & MOVIES: 2009 Portal Awards Filled With Surprises!
Airlock Alpha.com [formerly SyFyPortal.com] announced the winners of its fan-voted Portal Awards [formerly the SyFy Portal Genre Awards] this week. Favorites like Battlestar Galactica, Lost and The Dark Knight received few awards – though some popular movies and long-running series did take up the slack. The biggest upsets were Doctor Who’s Catherine Tate beating out […]
MOVIE NEWS: Brad Pitt proves Celebrity Still matters, Inglourious Basterds a Hit!
Has Brad Pitt ever been in Box Office Hit? I’m hard pressed to think of one – besides the Oceans series. Inglourious Basterds is on track to be the number one movie this weekend, pulling in an estimated $65.1 million worldwide and $37.6 million in the US. Not bad numbers at all for a film […]
MOVIE REVIEW: District 9 Turns First Contact Tales on Their Ear!
District 9 is a peculiar beast. It’s a tale where the impact of first contact with an alien race is about our effect on them, rather than [usual] other way around. While it could have been an effective film were it made anywhere else, it would not achieve the resonance it gains from being set […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Ponyo Miyazaki Makes More Magic!
The worlds created by Japanese master animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki are wondrous places where a bus can be a giant cat; waves can be giant, fluid fish and goldfish can have human faces. They are worlds that can be as sophisticated as Citizen Kane, or as subtle as the gentlest child’s book. Ponyo, the first […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard – Used Car Mercenaries!
Paramount’s The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is, next to The Hangover, the funniest film of the summer. It’s unapologetically crass, irreverent, obnoxious, politically incorrect – pick the adjectives you prefer. It’s also, thanks to fine performances from a varied and idiosyncratic cast of characters – played with gusto by an equally idiosyncratic cast of […]
MOVIE NEWS: Brand New full New Moon Trailer to debut before Bandslam this Weekend
For those of you who just can’t get enough of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The brand new theatrical trailer will debut this weekend before Bandslam. Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Aly Michalka join Gaelan Connell, Scott Porter, and Lisa Kudrow in the music-driven comedy BANDSLAM. When gifted singer-songwriter Charlotte Barnes (Michalka) asks new kid in […]
DVD Review: 17 Again Is A bit More Than Your Average Teen Movie
If you somehow had the chance, would you do your life over? Thirtysomething Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) would. Then one mysteriously magical moment, Mike gets his chance. He’s suddenly back at Hayden High where he’s the star of the basketball team, a total hottie, and a classmate to his own teenage kids…which gives Mike (Zac […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Michelle Loves G.I. Joe!
This is the reason why I don’t like reviewing movies where I spoke with one of the stars of. It colors your opinion or makes it difficult to be super critical, but I have to say I walked into G.I. Joe expecting to thoroughly hate it and I wasn’t planning on writing a review due […]