Live Free or Die Hard (review)
Hoorah! John McClane is back! Yippee-kai-ay! Right? Eh, not so much.
no rats were harmed — or motion-captured — in the making of ‘Ratatouille’
It seems sorta odd and mysteriously retro, in an animation era that’s all about technology and using artificial means to create photorealistic imagery without photography, but here it is. Sit through the credits of the new Pixar CGI toon Ratatouille, and near the end you’ll see this: Our Quality Assurance Guarantee: 100% Genuine Animation! No … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Live Free or Die Hard,’ ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,’ ‘Transformers,’ ‘Sunshine,’ ‘License to Wed’
pscyhed… I thought a press screening of Live Free or Die Hard was gonna come late in the week last week. It never did: it’s tonight, actually, only two days before the film opens… or, actually, only one, since there will be midnight screenings tomorrow night. I’ll head out in a few minutes to see … more…
Tom the Dancing Bug takes down movie critics
I’ve gotten emails from a bunch of folks over the last week or so about the latest Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon, by Ruben Bolling. (It’s from June 16, 2007; you’ll need to click on the calendar to find it when the next toon is posted.) And now seems the right time to point it … more…
Evan Almighty (review)
I wasn’t just bored by *Evan Almighty,* I was actively disgusted that so much money was spent on a film that is so poorly written, and so inconsistent and incoherent that it makes about as much sense as the six-thousand-year-old book written by ignorant goat herders that inspired it.
Sicko documentary review: calling the peasants to revolt
Make no mistake: *Sicko* is an explicit call for revolution, and it is a profound and horrifying one.
Big Train: Seasons One and Two (review)
Constantly surprising and endlessly inventive, this is sketch comedy at its wild best: aggressively silly, unafraid to take chances, and deliciously absurd and nonlinear…
Film School (review)
Tensions and emotions run high, but this ain’t no “reality” game show: these are talented, ambitious people whose only opponents are themselves.
hooked, kinda, on ‘Enterprise’ on Sci Fi
It’s a weird thing to be hooked on a TV show, and yet not really hooked. Like me with Star Trek: Enterprise. I’ve been obsessed with catching up with the entire series since the Sci Fi Channel started running the show from start to finish on Monday nights in four-hour blocks. The 98-episode run (it … more…
the new AFI 100: fire up yer Netflix queue
Well, I was wrong. I guessed that the new AFI 100 — which was announced over three hours of clips and celebrity gushing last night on CBS — would be substantially the same as the old AFI 100. Boy, was I wrong. Only three films hold their original positions on the list: Citizen Kane (#1), … more…
