In Taken, Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills tracked down the human traffickers who’d kidnapped his daughter and killed them. In Taken 2, relatives of the men he killed come after him seeking vengeance – but even with some serious attempts to do something different, the sequel is still too much of the same thing.
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Frankenweenie Makes Up for Dark Shadows!
After Dark Shadows missed the mark by so much, it’s a relief to be able to say that Frankenweenie is vintage Tim Burton.
The Lone Ranger Trailer Hits!
Here it is the first trailer for Disney’s upcoming The Lone Ranger. I’m sorry, but I can’t get past Johnny Depp’s offensive and horrible looking makeup. But then that’s me.
Hotel Transylvania: Familiar Elements; Fun Twists!
Genndy Tartakovsky – who’s given us such delights as Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: The Clone Wars – has taken a time-worn plot about an overly protective father and romance between a young couple who (really) come from different worlds and given it a lunatic freshness in Hotel Transylvania.
Dredd Is The Law!
The rebooted Judge Dredd movie, Dredd, is an action-packed ride that combines elements of the classic British series from the 2000AD magazine with the kind of triphammer percussiveness of Pantera. It doesn’t lay its Margaret Thatcher/Ronald Reagan government on steroids backdrop with a trowel, but the attitude of the comic is definitely the foundation […]
Trouble With The Curve Is an RBI Single Into The Gap!
Trouble With The Curve contains a lot of elements we’ve seen before: parent/child estrangement; a quirky romance; an older employee who is made to look over-the-hill; time honored methods vs. new technological advances – in short, there’s nothing much about the movie we haven’t seen in one form or another, many, many times. But sometimes, […]
Trailer: 42–The Jackie Robinson Story!
There are moments in history that can generate pride in an entire race, country or creed. Jackie Robinson provided a good many of those moments. It looks like this movie will honor them – and him.
Hot Trailer: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
With all the foofaraw over Peter Jackson’s decision to turn The Hobbit into a trilogy, it’s important to note that… this trailer rocks its tuchus off!
Oscars® Process Tweaked–We Get Five More Days To Check Out Nominated Films!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC have announced a wee bit of tweaking to the key dates in the process of arriving at the annual awards presentation. One major tweak is that the announcement of Academy Award nominations will take place five days earlier to allow more people to see the […]
Frankenweenie–It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
While the trailers for Frankenweenie have been terrific, and all the press releases for it have noted that it’s a very personal project for Tim Burton, I think it will take seeing this making of featurette to really drive home how important the film is to him. Various cast and crew – including Martin Landau, […]
Finding Nemo 3D: Classic Movie Really Doesn’t Need Partially Effective 3D To Be Great!
Finding Nemo is on the top five Pixar movies, which means it is already a bona fide classic in 2D. With this weekend’s re-release in 3D, it doesn’t really get all that much better because the 3D is only intermittently effective – though when it is, it’s really, really effective.