A remake of a 2008 French feature of the same name, LOL (“Laughing Out Loud”) is a baffling and somewhat annoying experience. The original film’s writer/director Lisa Azuelos has returned to helm her story about the tug-of-war between teens and…
Pop teen idols have been around since pop music burst forth in the forth in the fifties. Every generation seems to have their own idols, and some last longer than others. When I was very young, Leif Garrett was huge….
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 107 mins. | Rated PG The Last Song marks the first time that wildly popular novelist Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John) wrote the novel and screenplay concurrently. The film was pitched to Disney as…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 102 mins | Rated G Hannah Montana: The Movie, is another vehicle for Disney, Miley Cyrus and the others involved in the franchise to cash in on the “Hannah” phenomenon. The first big…
In any other year, Bolt would have won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, hands down. However, Wall-E was such an undeniably unique movie, it was impossible to deny the filmmakers the Oscar they received. By comparison, the story…
Until a couple of weeks ago, I was a complete Hannah Montana neophyte. I had watched a few minutes of the show here and there on the Disney Channel, but I don’t think I ever sat down and watched a…