Last week, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story on the upcoming DC Comics movie adaptations that are coming to theaters, as well as television shows and other media projects in development. Though Warner Brothers and DC lay claim to the highly successful Batman series, the company appears to be floundering with a lot of its [...]
Reviewed by Chris McEneany, 26th July 2009 Well, as I said earlier, I found Coraline pretty tough going at first, but once things turned nasty I simply fell in love with it. Having seen the film a few times now, I can safely testify that I have gotten over my coldness towards it and would [...]
(500) Days of Summer Directed by: Marc Webb Written by: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Clark Gregg, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler The term “romantic comedy” is not particularly well-regarded nowadays, thanks to years of formulaic and sappy love stories manufactured specifically as light entertainment for couples who are [...]
Watch the teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s 2010 fantasy adventure Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp as the Madhatter. This doesn’t look that good, but hopefully future trailers do more to sell me on it. Go to Source
Adolescent wizard-in-training Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark past of the boy who grew up to become Lord Voldemort in this, the sixth installment of the film series that originated from the writings of author J.K. Rowling. There was a time when Hogwarts was thought [...]
I have to admit, when they first announced a Tron sequel at last year’s Comic Con, I was intrigued but not really all that sure how well the concept would work 28 years later. It’s true that digital graphics and computer animation are a thousand times more advanced than they were back then, but the [...]
While the jury is still out on whether or not we’ll ever see a live action Halo feature film, it looks like the popular video game will be making is about to make the transition to yet another medium: 2-D animation. In the vein of The Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight, Microsoft and Bungie have [...]
Some lucky folks at the San Diego Comic Con this week were among the first audiences to see footage from James Cameron’s highly-anticipated sci-fi film Avatar (not to be confused with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender). Approximately 25 minutes of 3-D footage screened yesterday, showing off an unparalleled marriage between CG and motion capture [...]
Reviewed by Mark Botwright, 23rd July 2009Origin: Spirits of the Past’s foray onto the Blu-ray format is a fairly resounding success. The film itself is uneven and will split many an opinion over its first and second half transition. Unless we ever get to see some kind of extra footage, then the film will only [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie review: The time is near, that when the Harry Potter franchise delivers its final whisk of the wand. The tension is starting to build, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth entry in the blockbuster franchise, is a key indicator of how the story of Harry, [...]
