With only two weeks to go before the start of September, the majority of this year’s big-budget movies have already made their way to, and from, the theatres. Quite a few movies gave us incredibly high expectations and, unfortunately, only one or two of these shows managed to keep people interested past the first hour. [...]
With each passing year, movies get bigger and bigger. Very rarely can we walk into a cinema and see something lacking the touch of computer animation, and rarer still can we watch something that isn’t a remake of some other story. So you can probably imagine my surprise when, after watching the latest Fast & [...]
Hayao Miyazaki’s (宮崎駿) latest film hit the theatres this weekend. His first in four years, the tale of 崔の上のポニョ (Gake no Ue no Ponyo — Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) end the speculation that the animation great had made his last movie. Reiko and I took advantage of the half-price movie tickets at [...]
I just got back from watching The Simpsons Movie, and I must admit that it was well worth the eight bucks. Over the past 18 years we’ve seen the characters in all kinds of situations, and the last few seasons has been witness to some pretty lame episodes, but this feature certainly makes up for [...]
Just when it seems that there’s been a movie made about everything, the Sneaky Bastard makes public his intentions to film a movie about 10 bloggers.
I’m not sure what it is about this idea, but I have this strange sense of excitement about it. Perhaps it’s because I will actually be able to relate to [...]
Spartans. Impossible odds. Raw testosterone. Unblocked naked breasts (female, of course). What more could a guy want from a movie?
Since hearing about this movie, everyone has known that it would be 95% war and 5% back-story. We were not disappointed.
Frank Miller’s 5 issue graphic novel was published by Dark Horse Comics almost ten years ago, and [...]
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