Released in 2007, Pixar’s first collection of short films offered a glimpse of the company’s evolution from 1984 through 2006. Watching that first collection, it’s fascinating to witness the tremendous leaps in CGI that were occurring during Pixar’s earliest efforts….
Perhaps stung by the charges of racism that surrounded the release of The Birth of a Nation in 1916, when D.W. Griffith set out to make his first talkie he hoped to adapt Stephen Vincent Benet’s Civil War inspired prose…
Loosely adapted from novelist Walter Wager’s 1971 thriller, Viper Three, Twilight’s Last Gleaming sets up an improbable plot, but still manages to be an interesting film with clearly more in mind than being just a standard thriller. Directed by Robert…
With 2011’s Cars 2, the Pixar brain trust (namely John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter) took a bit of hit. For the first time in the studio’s history really, some began to wonder if after an unprecedented string of…
If ever the future of the Muppets was unclear, the early 1990’s was the time. Creator, father and lead puppeteer Jim Henson had died suddenly at age 53 in 1990. The Muppet Show, canceled nearly a decade earlier, had quietly…
Made on a modest budget of about $5,000,000, My Big Fat Greek Wedding was one of the biggest hits of 2002, grossing more than $350,000,000 worldwide. While some critics complained that the story was formulaic, clichéd, politically incorrect and unoriginal….
Writer/director Amy Heckerling made a name for herself in the ‘80s and ‘90s with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking and Clueless. After her last two features, 2000’s Loser and 2007’s I Could Never Be Your Woman were…
With the 2012 presidential election just days away, many of us have grown tired of political debates, hyperbole and ads. But leave it to Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and the director behind Austin Powers to make politics intriguing again. Director…
Given the success of 1975’s Jaws, Shark movies will continue to get made no matter how good they are in hopes of achieving box office gold. Bait 3D, directed by Kimble Rendall and based on a screenplay by John Kim…
American Joshua Marston made his directorial debut with Maria Full of Grace, concerned the drug trade between South America and New York. In his second feature, Marston delves into a little understood culture in Albania that lives according to an…