In the movie “The Secret Life of Bees” (opening today), Queen Latifah plays the role of August Boatwright, who along with her two sisters May (Sophie Okonedo) and June (Alicia Keys), own and operate a successful bee farm in South Carolina during the tumultuous Civil Rights era. The three women befriend a fourteen year old […]
TELEVISION: NBC’s Crusoe Is Swashbuckling Fun!
One of the last of the new fall programs to be broadcast, NBC’s Crusoe [Fridays, 8/7C] is allegedly a radical retelling of Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, though it fudges on his background [slave owners not being particularly well thought of these days] and utilizes the “Lost Method” of storytelling. Here, Crusoe [Philip Winchester] is a […]
DVD REVIEW: Liberty’s Kids –Animated History!
History is one of those subjects that can be made boring by a less than enthusiastic teacher – or by the misapprehension that it is, inherently, boring. In 2002 the DIC Entertainment Corporation produced a twenty-eight episode history of the United States of America as witnessed by four young people: Henri [voiced by Kathleen Barr], […]
TELEVISION: The End Is Near – Battlestar Galactica Returns In January!
A brief news release from the Sci Fi Channel states that on January 16, 2009, at 10 p.m. [9C], “Battlestar Galactica will return with the remaining episodes of its 4th and final season. Picking up from last June’s jarring cliffhanger – the Colonial fleet and their new Cylon allies led by Admiral Adama and the […]
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Hudson Chats About Her Oscar and “The Secret Life of Bees”
Jennifer Hudson is an Oscar winning actress with the voice of a true diva. This American Idol cast-off’s career has taken off over the past few years to great heights. In her latest venture, Hudson co-stars in the upcoming film “The Secret Life of Bees” where she plays the part of Rosaleen, a young black […]
Television: Advance Thoughts on Supernatural 4.05 Monster Movie
The CW asks ‘What’s Black and White and Scary All Over?’ Of course the answer is Supernatural’s 4.05 episode Monster Movie and this coming Thursday, October 16th at 9/8c, the CW Network is telling viewers not to adjust their set. In a bold production move, this episode of Supernatural was filmed in black and […]
DVD REVIEW: Halloween 30th Anniversary Commemorative Set – Big Chills, Cool Package!
It’s been thirty years since a little horror movie changed the genre forever and gave John Carpenter a career. Halloween was something completely different – a story about a killer child who grew up to become the personification of evil, Michael Myers. To celebrate this anniversary, Anchor Bay Entertainment has packaged the three best films […]
INTERVIEW: Dakota Fanning on “The Secret Life of Bees” and Life Outside of Hollywood
When you think of Dakota Fanning the first thing that might come to mind is a cute, sweet, blonde haired little girl with acting chops beyond her years. Her resume is littered with co-stars that make up some of the biggest names in Hollywood. But she’s not that little girl anymore. She’s actually fourteen years […]
MOVIE TRAILER/CLIP – Trailer Park of Terror
Here is something fun. The folks behind the upcoming Indie Horror DVD Trailer Park of Terror give us a sneak at the film and a behind the scenes look at the makeup effects, that were created by the world class Drac Studios, the folks who also did the makeup effects on the upcoming Watchmen movie. […]
MOVIE NEWS: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds starts Filming.
I just watched the Original Inglourious Bastards on DVD last week and enjoyed the heck out of it. The one special feature on it was a 20 minute interview between Quentin Tarantino and the director Enzo G. Castellari. Of course Tarantino’s version sounds like it’s going to be radically different from the original and I’m […]
FRESH GEAR: Toshiba Announces a slew of New Laptops
Satellite_A305_Open_RT(SM) I swear, it’s amazing how an Apple Keynote gets so much hype and every time, I come away completely under whelmed. I’m going to have a full on rant about how much I think tech journalist, especially bloggers lose whatever minimal credibility they have whenever Apple has one of these events. I mean […]