Tom and Jerry are fiendishly mischievous frenemies who have tormenting each other and entertaining audiences for years. They’ve done their own thing, and entered the worlds of such notables like?Sherlock Holmes,?The Wizard of Oz, and others. Now, forty-five years after Roald Dahl’s book,?Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was adapted into Gene Wilder’s?Willy Wonka & the…
The Zabinskis? decision to harbor as many Jews as they could was a courageous act?and a very illegal one. They were well aware of the threat that the Germans represented?both to the Jews and to those who harbored them.
This week, Steve welcomes Alan Sharrer to talk about CARS 3, Pixar’s return to the world of… well… cars! ?Lightning McQueen is slowing down and feeling the pressure to retire but does he have one last race in him? ?The guys talk about the power of mentoring, legacy and personal value. ?PLUS, their kids weigh…
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, ?Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.? That pretty well sums up the thesis of Beatriz at Dinner. I?ve read some reviewers who call this the first film to deal with the Trump era. There are certainly elements of the film that make…
Chips?got a reboot – you might’ve heard. But digging into the Dax Shepard/Michael Pena team-up, I was pleasantly surprised given that it was a box office bomb. Jon Baker (Shepard) and Ponch (Cena) are assigned together when Baker is on probation and Ponch is sent undercover to figure out what’s corrupt about the police officer’s…
It?s not unusual for me to go to a Disney/Pixar animation film and be more impressed with the short that plays before the feature than the feature itself. That is certainly true of Lou, which plays before Cars 3.
Fans of mild slapstick will be attracted to Lost in Paris. It is the work of Belgian comedy team of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. They bring a burlesque visual sensibility to their work.
Ali Jahani (George Kosturos) moves in with his uncle when he’s only seventeen, and finds himself ostracized and alone in a California town. But, based on true events, Jahani’s story finds redemption on the wrestling mat, where his participation changes the direction of a struggling team. Starring Jon Voigt and William Fichtner, the film will…
The film Cars 3 opens with a blank screen as Lightning McQueen pumps himself up for the upcoming race: ?Speed. I am speed.? Sound familiar?
Over the years, the Cars franchise has been widely viewed as the flat tire of the Pixar world.? Despite decent reviews, the first entry remains one of the lowest financial successes in their canon (not counting merchandise, of course).? When the utterly unforgivable second film was released, the franchise found itself left in a twisted…
