Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Over the last few days, we lost two giants who left their marks in completely different areas of the film industry. There is really nothing to be said of Irvin Kershnel, the man who directed, among others, a movie that is one of the greatest of all time and the voice of a generation. Of [...]

These have been floating around for a couple of days via Collider and AICN and they look pretty legit. I question certain things about these movies, from how successfully they’ll integrate the mystical aspects of Thor into the more realistic superhero world found in the films to Chris Evans as Cap to just plain quality [...]

Well over a decade in the making, Avatar is James Cameron’s first feature film since Titanic back in 1997. In my mind, Cameron’s Terminator 2 is the best action movie ever made so this movie had some pretty big shoes to fill. I tried to stay away from details of the movie for as long [...]

The Princess and the Frog is Disney’s first traditionally animated feature film since 2004 and, for that reason alone, I’ve been keeping a close eye on it through its development ups and downs. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, this movie has big shoes to fill as it attempts to resuscitate a dying breed [...]

“9″ was probably, along with Pixar’s “Up,” my most anticipated movie this year. Its trailer came out of nowhere and, bad music choices in it aside, I simply loved it. It was clear in its setting and design sensibilities that it wasn’t your average animated movie and that it was striving to be something different. [...]

I’m not as big a fan of Quentin Tarantino as most people are. I enjoy his movies but I find that Tarantino as a writer is often more successful than Tarantino as a director. I think Pulp Fiction, his most widely praised film, suffers from not having a real plot, being perhaps too character driven [...]

I’m a huge fan of aliens and science fiction so I was immediately interested in director Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 when I saw its first trailer (which I’ve embedded at the end of this post) many months ago. The trailer itself was so vague that I didn’t really know what the movie was about which [...]