Every once and awhile, I come across an animated film I haven’t seen. Still, I was amazed to discover that there was a film that Arthur Rankin Jr. and?Jules Bass (Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Hobbit, Thundercats) produced, with Romeo Muller’s script, Don Maclean’s music, and starring the voices of John Ritter,…
P.T. Barnum watched his father toil in poverty, the family suffering in the shadows of the rich Hallett family. With love for Charity Hallett, and a desire to show the world a vision of joy that they hadn’t seen before, Barnum works hard to embrace a new life for his family. With starts and stops,…
In this outrageous family adventure, Web superstars @jennxpenn (Jen McAllister) and the Smosh duo (Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox) join forces with comedy legends Jon Heder and Chevy Chase. The laughter begins as a mischievous hedgehog named Bobby leaves his wilderness home and joins Hubert, a featherbrained pigeon, on a wild, unpredictable journey. They make…
Night School?showcases the best of Kevin Hart: comedy, drama, physical humor, and quick-witted banter. This is a high water mark in the early career of Hart, and audiences will enjoy the effort. Hart is Teddy Walker, successful chicken salesman, dating Lisa (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and happy (if not a little broke). Then he accidentally burns down…
Jeff Bauman was just at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, to cheer on his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Erin. Before his legs were ripped off by the blast that killed three, destroyed the limbs of fifteen other people, and injured hundreds, Bauman was just a guy working in chicken processing for Costco. But when he…
The opening of?Dunkirk?reminded me of the opening scenes in?Fury, as my stomach clenched and refused to let me go. Facing hidden enemies and countless dangers, a few soldiers make their way through the city while being fired on by German soldiers. Through our vantage point (the lead actor Fionn Whitehead or “Tommy,” named after the…
What if an asteroid was headed to Earth with the potential to end life as we know it? That’s the question plaguing CBS’?Salvation, like?Armageddon?before it. With Darius (Santiago Cabrera) funding MIT whizkid Liam (Charlie Rowe) and the help of sci-fi writer Jillian Hayes (Jacqueline Byers), U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Harris Edwards (Ian Anthony Dale) stands…
In the real world-to-LEGO story that the strange relic shop owner Mr. Liu tells, Lloyd Garmadon doesn’t want to face the reality that his father is the country-antagonizing villain, Lord Garmadon. When a new threat arises in the form of Meowthra (a cat), the Ninjago warriors must band together to find the Ultimate, Ultimate Weapon…
With?Election, you could start your discussion anywhere. Is it the way that the film directed by Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Sideways, Nebraska) and written by Tom Perrotta (The Leftovers) so adeptly nails the American political landscape in 1999?then?and?now? Is it from the vantage point of the good girl-obsessed with winning-turned-politician in Reese Witherspoon’s Tracy Flick…
Winter has come. In the seventh season of HBO’s?Game of Thrones, which may be the most addictive television show of all time (at least, since?Lost), the separate worlds held apart by power, water, and dragons finally crash together in an explosive penultimate season in George R.R. Martin’s wickedly created series. Now available on Blu-ray, DVD,…
