Storm Hawks: Hawks Rise Again (review)
It’s clear this simplistic Cartoon Network series is aimed at very young children…
Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (review)
Based on a novel that’s based on a role-playing game that’s ripped off from ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ this is about as watered-down as a sword-and-sorcery adventure can get.
watch it: “LOST [Ep 1] What Will Happen Next?”
Psyched for the return of Lost tonight? Me too. And lots of other folks, too: (Technorati tags: Lost)
Family Guy: Blue Harvest (review)
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
The Eyes of Van Gogh (review)
Few ultra-low-budget films take on such an ambitious story, or tell it in such an ambitious way…
new on DVD: ‘The Invasion,’ ‘Daddy Day Camp,’ ‘Trade’
Skip it: • The Invasion [buy it]. From my review: “I’m so afraid I’m gonna fall asleep,” Nicole Kidman says at one point during The Invasion, which was just about the only spooky or eerie moment I encountered in this third — and entirely unnecessary — screen mounting of Jack Finney’s classic science fiction novel … more…
movie-ku #134
Guess the movie: Dumb girl smartens up When her man turns chump and guests From afar arrive
watch it: Humane Society on downer cows
This is shocking but not, alas, anything new. Except now we can see it: I’m not a vegetarian, and have no desire to be — not only do I like eating meat, but I think we humans, as omnivores, need the protein that animal flesh supplies to be healthy. (Vegetarians rarely look to me like … more…
Marvel Comics superheroes are popping up all over!
Have you heard? Marvel is dropping its comics characters all over the place… well, into other Marvel comics movies, at least. Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man — his movie is out in May — makes an appearance in this summer’s Incredible Hulk (in which Edward Norton plays the green beast). And Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick … more…
movie-ku #133
Oh, fer pete’s sake… If it works on film Quick! Slap it up on stage and Rake in tourist dough
