When Watchmen was released, I wrote, “Watchmen is beautiful and brutal. It is an experience. Snyder has put together a thoughtful, nearly anthemic work here. There are various small changes and one major one [the pan-dimensional, intergalactic space squid is not here – and that’s a good thing] in the film, but the essentials are […]
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CONTEST: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE™ Advanced Screening!
© 2009 Warner Bros. Ent. Publishing Rights © J.K. Rowling Harry Potter characters, names and related indicia are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED! I appreciate your excitement, but stop sending emails asking for tickets, THERE ARE NO MORE. ———————- The fine folks at Warner Bros. […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Watchmen Is An Experience!
The world of Watchmen is one where an actual superman is the lone deterrent to nuclear war. Too bad he doesn’t care. The world of Watchmen is one where a retired superhero can become worth three times the net worth of the major automakers – combined – by selling a line of superhero-related items – […]
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 […]
Speed Racer: Brightly Colored Fun!
Let’s be clear on this – I have never seen any of the Speed Racer anime´ nor have I seen any of the manga, and am barely aware of vintage merchandizing. Now that we have that out of the way, I have to say that, as a Speed Racer virgin, the brightly-colored film by the […]
Fool’s Gold Is Exactly That!
It’s not bad enough that Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson showed a lack of chemistry in How to Lose a Guy in 10 days. Oh, no. They had to team up again to provide us with a Romancing the Stone wannabe that lacks romance, adventure and intelligence.