The tag line for My Bloody Valentine: 3D proclaims: Nothing says date-movie like a 3D ride to hell. You really have to hand it to a horror/slasher film that has the guts to bill itself as a date movie! At least that’s one way to get more ladies into the theater. The other is to […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: Hotel For Dogs: Undemanding Fun
The trailers for Hotel For Dogs make much of the Rube Goldberg devices that are created for the titular hotel and, in truth, they are pretty amazing. The film is not nearly as much fun, but it does have its good points. Andi [Emma Roberts] and her little brother, Bruce [Jake T. Austin] are foster […]
MOVIE REVIEW: My Bloody Valentine 3-D: Bloody Entertaining!
When I scored a pass to see My Bloody Valentine 3-D, I wasn’t sure it was a good thing – but since I went into theater with absolutely no expectation, I was pleasantly surprised. I never saw the original, but this new version – written by Todd Farmer [from a story by Stephen Miller and […]
CONTESTS! Win Matthew McConaughey’s Autographed Surfboard!
Win Matthew McConaughey’s autographed Surfboard! That’s right in one of the coolest contest we’ve ever run here at EclipseMagazine.com, we’re giving away Matthew’s board. Sweet, man. This board is being given away because Matthew is in a new DVD/Blu-ray movie called Surfer, Dude. Hey can the casting be any better? Synopsis Soulful longboard surfer Steve […]
MOVIES & TELEVISION: It’s Time To Party With The 66th Golden Globes Awards!
With “Awards Season” in full swing, we come to my favorite awards show to watch – The Golden Globes [the Globes’ new look featured, above]. Where else can you see an award winner rush from the little girls’ room to the stage, trailing a piece of toilet paper from her shoe [Christine Lahti, you are […]
MOVIE NEWS: Michelle’s Picks for Best Films of 2008
I say this every year and every year it’s true – I hate doing lists of any sort, especially the yearly Top 10 re-caps. I can’t even remember the last ten films I saw, that alone rifle through my brain and remember everything from an entire year. Overall this was an interesting year, the beginning […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Spirit Made My Toes Curl – But I Kinda Liked It!
In a summer during the early-to-mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy – not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer. It was about comic characters from the Golden Age of Comics [approximately 1939-1946 – your […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Youth, Apparently, Is Not Wasted on the Young!
One of the strangest – and yet most normal – films of the year is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Even you’ve not been paying attention to pop culture for the last six months, it would hard not to have heard about the movie about the guy who ages backwards while living forwards. Directed […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Bedtime Stories – The Kinder, Gentler Adam Sandler Kinda Works!
Adam Sandler in a Disney movie… what’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, as it happens. Well, nothing major. Adam Shankman [Hairspray] directs Bedtime Stories and – except for the usual Rob Schneider cameo [which sucks the life out of the film for a few moments] – gets a solid performance out of Sandler as handyman […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Slumdog Millionaire – Can 20,000,000 Rupees Buy Happiness?
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire tells a pretty basic rags-to-riches tale that has oddly charming and wrenchingly violent sidetracks. It begins when Jamal Malik’s [Dev Patel] hot streak on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire culminates in a ten million rupee total before he is taken away by police on charges of […]
MOVIE NEWS: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Start’s It’s Marketing Push Today. New Trailer, Website, and Ecards!
Back in the day I was a huge fan of Neil Gaiman’s and own the almost all of the original run of the Sandman Books, including the Death Mini-Series (when are we going to get THAT movie? It can’t be that hard to make.). However, I haven’t read any of his novels. So I’m real […]