SNAPSHOT What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that Continue Reading
Movies
Can’t wait to see: Mr. Nobody
SNAPSHOT In the year 2092, one hundred eighteen year old Nemo is recounting his life story to a reporter. He is less than clear, often times thinking that he is only thirty-four years of age. But his story becomes more confusing after he does focus on the fact of his Continue Reading
The Seussing Dead: Theodorian whimsy meets apocalyptic gore
I know what you’ve been thinking every time you’ve sat down to enjoy an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Why hasn’t someone rendered the apocalyptic zombie tale into the sort of form that children, and yes, the quirky young at heart, can enjoy? Well wonder no more because Cinepix, Continue Reading
Back where they belong: Mr Peabody and Sherman set to jump back into the zietgeist in 2014
One of the things I remember most fondly from my childhood was getting up just before 6 a.m. (yes voluntarily!) when we were staying at my grandparents’ place in Sydney where they had three commercial TV channels to choose from – it seems laughable now in this digital age Continue Reading
Movie review: Riddick
Riddick (Vin Diesel) who first sprang to violent life in Pitch Black (2000) and its sequel, the rather overblown The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), is a helluva badass kind of guy. How do we know this? Frankly we’re not really allowed to miss it. From the opening moments of Continue Reading
We’re all getting Dumb and Dumber AGAIN!
There’s no rhyme or reason sometimes about which movies I find appealing and which leave me stone, motherless, muffin-deprived cold. Take comedies for instance. I was told over and over that Bridesmaids and The Heat were the funniest movies of their respective seasons, and that not to have seen Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers 3: C. O. G., Last Vegas, The Husband, Her, The Family
Build yourself a cinematic raft people – there is a tsunami of movies on their way. Yes, yes I hear you say – I have exceptionally good hearing and the NSA lets me borrow their doodads from time to time which is nice – there are always plenty of Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like an indie Christmas: All is Bright movie trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT All Is Bright is the story of two French Canadians who travel to New York City during the holiday season with a get-rich-quick scheme of selling Christmas trees. Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is a no-nonsense, recently released ex-con trying to get his life – and his wife – back. Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Ass Backwards (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) are two childhood best friends who met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a Continue Reading
Dial up the DHD! Stargate MAY be returning
I am a hopeless romantic. I believe that ideals will win out over pragmatism (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). I like to think that the better angels of our nature will always win out. And I expect that long dormant franchises will burst back to life when I Continue Reading