Tag: Movies

Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is Spectacular!

I had much the same reaction to The Great Gatsby that I had to Les Miserables – I could probably enumerate a ton of flaws, but I just don’t care because the overall experience is spectacular. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s slim novel presented cool characters with understandable motivations and simultaneously captured the essence of an era […]

First Look: Disney’s Big Hero 6!

Big Hero 6 is an action/comedy/adventure based on the Marvel comics of the same name. Brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. Hiro and his closest companion—a robot named Baymax—join forces with a reluctant team of first-time […]

Odd Trailer? Odd Thomas!

One of the more interesting of Dean R. Koontz’s creations is the clairvoyant short order cook, Odd Thomas. Now, Odd Thomas has been adapted for the big screen, starring Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) as the titular character. Directed by Stephen Sommers and with a supporting cast that includes Willem Dafoe (The Spider-man Trilogy, The Boondock […]