Ferdinand movie review: no bull, it’s wonderful
Goofy, charming, faithful to its sweet source material, and all while advancing the standard “Be yourself” message with fresh challenges to gender expectations.
Rio
Rio 2 review: jungle feeble
This is what passes for a children’s movie these days: a 1950s sitcom drawn in pretty tropical CGI colors with a few mostly forgettable songs tossed in.
Epic review: you can’t stop the rot
Ironically, nothing feels organic here, and certainly nothing feels magical…
Epic (trailer)
Whoa, so beautiful and serene and magical… and then there’s a slug who says “Dude.” *facepalm*
The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…
question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?
Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at the box office?
Rio (review)
So tediously familiar that I could barely remember most of it after I left the cinema. I’m exaggerating just a tad, but even if I didn’t remember it, I could have told you what it was about anyway, because it deviates not one whit from the formula that we’ve come to understand is somehow “essential” for “family” movies…
interesting: U.S. embargo for ‘Rio’
Since it’s been all embargo news here lately (or at least it feels like it), here’s the flip side of the nonsense…
trailer break: ‘Rio’
I just love seeing male fantasies and male inadequacies played out in children’s cartoons about talking animals.
