It was predetermined that I would see?Pan, regardless of what the critics had to say. [Spoiler alert:?they’ve said plenty, and none of it good!] Maybe it was as a kid when I fell in love with?Walt Disney’s interpretations of?Robin Hood?and?Peter Pan, the mischievous, golden-hearted way that the protagonists saved others, dreamed big, and challenged the…
An Introduction Epic phrases in movies are nothing new. Classic characters breed classic lines, from Darth Vader?s ?I am your father? to Enigo Montoya?s ?My name is Enigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.? Many of the lines remind us of our identification with the character we have known, loved, or even wanted…
San Andreas is not going to win any Academy awards for best film or best actors, but?that doesn’t mean it is not worth watching. It is filled with tons of edge-of-your-seat drama and over the top special effects, yet in the midst of all that, there is an interesting story behind it.?You can already guess…
Anytime you watch a?Brad Bird (The Incredibles,?Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) or?Damon Lindelof (Lost, The?Leftovers) vehicle, you know that you’re in for a wild ride of the imagination. Given that they were handed the keys by Walt Disney Pictures for Tomorrowland, the comparisons to visual, family-inspiring flicks like?Escape to Witch Mountain?are representative of?the genre. Examining the…
Malcolm (Shameik Moore), Jib (Tony Revolori), and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) are three geeks trying to survive life in the dark world of “The Bottoms” in Inglewood, California. Malcolm is our likable star, longing to make it out of Inglewood to the Ivy-lined walls of Harvard. But when Malcolm accidentally ends up with Dom’s (A$AP Rocky)…
By now, if you haven’t seen either?the 1992 Walt Disney animated feature film, the Broadway musical, or the children’s repertoire performance of Aladdin, you’ve probably been living in the Cave of Wonders. The truth is that this adaptation of?One Hundred and One Nights?is more magical, musical, and enchanting than anything else we could’ve imagined. Maximizing?the…
When Paranomal Activity took the world by storm in 2009, it proved that movies didn?t need big budgets or outrageous FX to be scary. Ironically, in true Hollywood-fickle fashion, producers suddenly seemed to think that this new minimalist style was all you had to have, and the ?found footage? genre (launched in the modern era…
My favorite Catholic cop family is back at it for the sixth season. The first episode was a gripping take on terrorism in New York City … that felt like we’d been there and done that. But the second episode found Danny (Donny Wahlberg) pursuing a serial killer who had escalated to a frequency of…
One of my favorite premieres this year was followed up by a dud that was only beaten out for the bottom spot by the?Rosewood?premiere. Thankfully, Jamie Alexander’s team-up with Sullivan Stapleton was back to its impressive self in the third episode, as Taylor Shaw/Doe and Kurt Weller found themselves butting heads and chasing bank robbers….
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a crew of new medical residents invade an overworked hospital to learn from?the most qualified doctors around, but are forced to overcome said doctor’s idiosyncrasies and each other. While some of the shows that balance these qualities have succeeded (ER,?House, Grey’s Anatomy) at keeping our attention for years,…
