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Last weekend I stumbled upon a girly web site where a bunch of girly girls created an Expendables poster by replacing all of the old, grizzled icons with hot young Hollywood up and comers. Gosh, if only someone had thought to cast sexy boys in the movie instead of...
Everyone remembers having that one childhood obsession that took on a life of its own and developed the power to shape everything in its path. Whether it was a comic book, a video game, a TV show, a movie, or a toy, chances are we all loved something so much...
Footloose v2.0 is the remake of a childhood favorite of mine, and many others like me. For those of us who had nothing better to do in the summer of 1984, the original Footloose happily helped us spend our parents’ money, over and over… Well, the movie has now...
When I tried to remember what went on in Poltergeist II, I could picture a few scenes in my mind, but no story. That didn’t seem right, so I thought it was probably time to give it another whirl. After all, you don’t always remember things properly when you...
Melissa Sue Anderson is best known for her portrayal of Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. As you may recall, Mary goes blind about halfway through the show’s run, but apparently Melissa would like us to know that she can see just fine. Also, she totally owns...
Precocious Joey King stars as precocious Ramona Quimby, a girl who doesn’t just march to the beat of her own drummer, she cartwheels to it. Often misunderstood – especially by her stern teacher (Sandra Oh) and her exasperated older sister, Beezus (Selena Gomez) – Ramona sort of bumbles and...
I would just like to refute the notion that Author! Author! is a stinky Al Pacino movie. Maybe the people who said it was didn’t see Gigli. Maybe they never had to sit through Dick Tracy. Maybe they were cynical buggers with no sense of humor, but there is...
Openfilm.com is an excellent new venue for the work of beginning filmmakers. We checked in with Openfilm CEO Dmitry Kozko to learn how the site can help new talent get started in the film industry: moviepie.com: Do you think the Internet has made the film industry more accessible to...
It never quite seems fair to review something I was unable to finish, but at the same time, the “unable to finish” aspect seems like a fairly important part of the experience. Truth be told, I was exceedingly excited to read Melissa Gilbert’s memoir, Prairie Tale, and from the...
If you grew up watching Little House on the Prairie, you undoubtedly have some pretty vivid memories of Nellie Oleson, played by Alison Arngrim. Regardless of the fact that her memoir is titled Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Alison is nothing like her character. In this case, “bitch” is...
I spent a significant chunk of my senior year of high school reading Anna Karenina cover to cover and then researching the life of Leo Tolstoy. I learned a lot of crazy trivia about the man, including the fact that he once ran away from home (quite late in...
When 12-year-old Dre Parker (Smith) and his mom (Taraji P. Henson) pack up their lives in Detroit and move to China – for reasons that are never fully explained – the pint-sized American becomes the target for bullying by a gang of preteen thugs at his school. Led by...
