I think part of my reason that I can't "access" Miyazaki's stuff is because I saw Mononoke first. Actually, I'd seen Cagliostro when I was a kid, but just enjoyed that because it was a cartoon (and still do!) and I had a couple of the Sherlock Hound tapes, which is the first time I was aware of the...

You want to see what an Iron Curtain animated short looks like? Look at the Deitch T & J series! They were made in Czechoslovakia! I HAVE seen Iron Curtain animated shorts (no, I don't mean Zagreb/Professor Balthazar, I mean we had one station that once tried showing the Russian Bluejay cartoons wh...

Also need to decide if it's worth pulling the trigger on Mars Needs Moms. I don't usually buy films I haven't seen, the reviews are terrible, and I don't care for mo-cap like this. However, I'm a huge Berkeley Breathed fan and, apparently unlike a lot of people, I actually like 3D discs! Plus I wou...

Think it's more of Hasbro's response to Battleship: "Okay, let's admit it, we're in it for the Transformers, and we're never going to have any luck bringing our other game projects into the stream..." The fact that it probably won't be directed by Michael Bay (because it's different , you see!) may ...

I know! There's something wrong with that, isn't there? ;) If it was anyone else, we'd pass it off as a failed hadn't-seen-Epic mistake and ignore it-- But even if he didn't work on it personally, the Lucas name just awakens some primal urge to watch it just to see how bizarre, misconceived and aud...

I, too, am baffled that Lego Movie didn't get a nod. Finally watched it this weekend (not in 3D, unfortunately, as it was only a free bonus movie on my UV)-- And like other Phil Lord/Chris Miller works, I found it rather awkward in that they clearly found themselves so amusing, I felt as if I might...

I'm still curious to see this so-called "homicidal maniac" Man of Steel film that everyone keeps talking about. The movie I saw had Superman in it, not some "homicidal maniac." Maybe there's some R-rated alternate cut I'm not aware of? ;) Compared to the one in Superman vs. the Elite, this one woul...

Hmmm...it could look like a desperate play, but at least finally they'd be doing something 'synergenistic' (haha) with one of their biggest acquired properties. Kind of begs the question, though, that if you had such a character on the books and then started developing a comedy ghost picture, shoul...

James wrote:Just saw this. Moulin Rouge it wants to be but Moulin Rouge it ain't! Even "rock opera" is a stretch. This is more like a "pop revue".

So, this isn't that "Fairy movie with pop tunes" that Chapman said she was working on at Dreamworks, then?

Yes, pretty generic in some ways... but let's remember those awful John Carter trailers. And JC turned out pretty good. There was good stuff in the JC trailers, we just weren't allowed to see it. Here, the stuff they DO show us doesn't look any good. This is more an adaptation of the Ultimate FF co...

What....does the Bridesmaids director...even KNOW about the dangers of crossing proton plasma streams?

Annnnnnd.....they went with the babes. Or, at least, Melissa McCarthy, because they now always want to put her in buddy-action comedies hoping "The Heat" will happen again. And got the Heat writer and the Bridesmaids director just in case. Now all those female Ghostbusters fans can come rushing to t...

It's not a bad trailer in my book, but goodness, it's pretty generic. Looks like it's trying to go for the Man of Steel/Godzilla idea of burying the last mistake by going COMPLETELY in the opposite direction and trying for Somber Epic. I saw maybe two shots--I can count them--that even remotely loo...

To clarify, I'm not implying that Boss Baby is a surefire flop. The concept is fun and easy to sell, and Kevin Spacey is popular right now. We also haven't seen any footage from the film, so a bit early to call it "bad." ;) It is, however, easy to go on the assumption that most people won't even be...

Sniper opened in January because it had a limited Oscar-qualification run in December, and is doing big business now because it's one of the only last-minute Best Pictures we can run to check up on that's not on disk, arthouses or digital. (Also, one of the few big-studio genre nominees we've actual...