An inarguable masterpiece of gentle, sweet storytelling combined with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, My Neighbor Totoro is an indisputable classic of anime from famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki …
Now, why is it there there are no excellent Viking movies out there? I mean, people love warriors, battles, raping, and pillaging when it comes to movie mayhem. Movies like Braveheart and Beowulf are …
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas should have just left Indiana Jones literally riding off into the sunset in The Last Crusade... after all, isn't how all the best adventures end? But I can understand…
A pretty white kitty named Duchess (seductively voiced by Eva Gabor) lives with her kittens in the mansion of her elderly Madame. I mean, I guess Madame is elderly, because she is actually kind of hot…
There's nothing like an overly-complicated kid's movie to make you feel like an absolute moron. There are so many things to like about Arthur and the Invisibles, but at a certain point, I felt like I …
There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and eventually faces off with the bad-g…
Maybe it’s a side effect of the collective dumbing-down of moviegoing audiences. Maybe it’s because this new comedy starring former bad-boy rapper Ice Cube is a prime example of Lowest Common Denomina…
Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting much from this adaptation of the Jules Verne classic, especially since it stars Jackie Chan – whose last two big-screen forays (The Medallion and Shanghai Knights) left …
After the huge popular and critical success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas cruised on their egos and made the dark, unfunny, and overall icky sequel Indiana Jones and Th…
Until I rewatched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom recently, I had forever associated the film with getting my teeth drilled. Literally. You see, the last time I had seen the stinkiest of the Indi…
Ah, yes, it was the summer of 1981... I was 11 years old, and all of us neighborhood kids whiled away our time playing Space Invaders, furiously working on our Rubik's cubes, and reliving the thrill o…
I find Sean Connery distracting.
I’m not a big fan of his, especially of his work in recent years (Encrapment, anyone?), and he was a big reason why I wasn’t looking forward to seeing The Leag…
