Who knew the dearly departed would be so well put together? Watch just about any horror movie and you’ll see–regardless of the severity of their demise, ghosts almost always look like they just left church or a runway shoot.? This week’s psychological shocker, Backtrack, follows suit (and tie).? It’s chock full of phantoms and just…
This is a story about a ?Great Man?, but it shows just how flawed and injured such a person can be. Do those flaws and injuries negate the greatness?
The first British cartoon to end up on Nickelodeon twenty years ago has a remake brewing! On April 29, and only on Netflix, fans of?Danger Mouse?(and sarcastic animated characters) will delight in the latest gem. Danger Mouse (Alexander Armstrong) and his sidekick Penfold (Kevin Eldon) battle the evil forces of the frog, Baron Silas von…
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are back in the sequel to Tim Story’s 2014 cop comedy,?Ride Along. James (Cube) is on the hunt for bigger and bigger criminal fish to fry, when his soon-to-be brother-in-law, Ben (Hart), steps in to save the day – and, in the process, gets James’ partner (Tyrese Gibson) shot. Soon,…
Have you heard about the dancing polar bear??Norm of the North?wants to introduce you to Norm (Rob Schneider), who–it hopes–will do for polar bears what Happy Feet did for penguins. With less music and more hijinks, Norm gravitates from the great white north to New York City, in hopes of saving his home from the…
Some animated characters are timeless. Tom and Jerry. Mickey Mouse. Bugs Bunny. In the latest incarnation of Looney Tunes’ Bugs Bunny,?Wabbit?sets up our favorite rabbit (with apologies to the Easter Bunny) in a series of vignettes where he both battles through often insane situations?and?provides social commentary on the world he lives in. If it happens…
In the beginning . . . how did the heavens and the earth come to be? It?s a question we?ve all considered at some point in our lives.
We often think of philosophers as those who sit in ivory towers unaffected by the actual world. They think their thoughts about the nature of things without really understanding what matters. But often philosophy comes out of profound experiences.
Despite their much ballyhooed reputation for keeping doctors away, apples, it seems, got nothing for homicidal maniacs. ?Just the opposite, in fact; that red tempting tree fruit practically serves as the calling card for the nutty nihilist of 1999’s In Dreams. ?It’s a smorgasbord of cinematography full of lush tones and spooky palettes that frame…
The film reflects a slightly romantic view of this period of coming of age. These people are filled with optimism as their lives lay open before them. Of course we know that there will be stumbling blocks in the life ahead of them.
