Over the course of the second season to date, I have kept the flame lit for Lost. I have kept the faith. I have stayed true. But this week’s episode, The Other 48 Days, is the one that broke me. I believe that not only was this the worst episode of the series so far, … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: DisneyMSRP: $34.99RATED: TV-YRUNNING TIME: 614 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: Sneak Previews After successfully reinventing the Scrooge McDuck character for younger audiences in DuckTales (read my review of that set here), Disney’s television animation department set their sights on the duo of Chip and Dale. The two high pitched chipmunks had … Continue reading
There’s something to be said for Tom Jane’s geek dedication – not only is his upcoming slate filled with comic book projects, but now he’s gunning for some mutants. Nope, it’s not a Marvel crossover movie with the Punisher blasting holes in the ever-increasing X-Men ranks (for now we’ll have to speculate that Brett Ratner … Continue reading
Do you think that Jules Verne is a boring old dead writer? WRONG! He’s a DaVinci Code kinda guy, it turns out – he actually went to the center of the Earth and hid clues about it in a book that he slyly titled Journey to the Center of the Earth! That’s the premise of … Continue reading
Hustle & Flow is one of my favorite movies of 2005, and probably a lock for my Top 15 list at the end of the year (although what was once a tough list to fill has become very crowded thanks to a tsunami of high quality films at the end of the year), but I … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Dark Sky FilmsMSRP: $14.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 79 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: None The Pitch "It’s Plan 9 underwater." The Humans Sonny Chiba, Peggy Neal, Mike Daneen, Franz Gruber, Erik Neilson and a shitload of walking mackerel. "…and so help us, Aquaman, we get another one of those fucking 3 AM aquatic … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Big IdeaMSRP: $14.98RATED: GRUNNING TIME: 52 min.SPECIAL FEATURES:• “Making of” Featurette• Wynonna Music Video• Wynonna Interview• Behind the Scenes• Veggie Commentary• Trivia Game• Sing Along• DVD Game• Family Activity• Cookie Recipe• How-to-Draw• DVD-ROM Fun The Pitch “An animated Lord of the Rings with all the characters played by religious … Continue reading
You should know that if, after seeing Walk the Line, you want to buy Johnny Cash albums you’ll have to go to the country section of your local record store. I say that because as I left the screening of the biopic I realized most of the movie had tried to keep Cash as far … Continue reading
With the fourth film in the series, the Harry Potter films may have set a real record – it’s the first franchise where each movie is better than the last one for this long. A lot of the credit must go to the source material. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was, at the … Continue reading
First Look: Writer/Artist Matt Wagner Peers into Year Two with “Batman and the Monster Men” By Russell Paulette I suppose if one were to line up all the ‘early career’ Batman stories end-to-end, you’d probably cover more than half of his career. For some reason, those early years capture the creator’s imagination more than any … Continue reading