BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: The History Channel MSRP: $14.99RUNNING TIME: 53 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: none The Pitch It’s a crazy man with a foul mouth and a gun! And a knife! And a .30 Cal. Machine gun…and a crossbow and a tank and a dueling pistol and a… The Humans R. Lee Ermey The … Continue reading
Earlier this week I ran an interview with Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon as well as the new Michael Bay movie. In the intro to that interview, I said this: “Cullen’s Prime is good voice work, and it doesn’t have the over the top silly quality of Frank Welker’s … Continue reading
Even though it’s probably a damning commentary on the psyche of America that audiences (or, at least, filmmakers) seem so eager to revisit the blockbusters of their youth with late-in-the-day sequels like Rocky Balboa, John Rambo and Indiana Jones 4, I still get a little giddy when I hear talk of a Beverly Hills Cop … Continue reading
Buy it at Amazon: CLICK HERE! Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment MSRP: $29.99Running Time: 94 minutesSpecial Features: • Commentary with the director and visual effects supervisor• Crocumentary: Bringing Gustave to LifeThe PitchTo paraphrase Peter Hartlaub of The San Francisco Chronicle, it’s Anaconda meets Hotel Rwanda. Or if you want an original one…how about, “Take a … Continue reading
When Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 came out there was a ripple of hope in my liberal circle of friends: this movie was going to make a difference. After four years of dealing with a man who was manifestly the worst president in history, a year after getting into a war that we knew was a … Continue reading
It’s easy to find commentary about the one-note nature of summer films. Doesn’t take a think tank to understand that May through July are given over to sixteen year old boys, with the occasional nod to 30-year old boys through a film like Ocean’s Thirteen. Counter-programming is an easy way for a studio to make … Continue reading
There is no movie here. The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer does many things most movies do in that it features a variety of characters striving to attain a variety of objectives, many of which are in direct opposition to one another. This is called conflict, and, in a classical narrative motion picture, … Continue reading
I only just saw Brick recently. I’m embarrased about that, but also relatively OK with my lateness, because it’s one of those movies that’s so good I actually get a little angry. How dare some kid show up and mix all these elements together so they make perfect sense? As someone who writes the occasional … Continue reading