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• Best Bets: WALL-E is Wanted

We haven’t had a real summer family movie for a few weeks since Kung Fu Panda. The Incredible Hulk was marketed to little kids, with a slew of toys released in tandem with the film, but the violence and several disturbing images made it not suitable for little ones like mine. So I’m happy to [...]

• Two Week Recap: Four Mini-reviews

So I’m back, I had a nice time of relaxation and refocusing during my hiatus. If your box office news is dependent upon me (in which case you would be severely under/mis-informed) then you didn’t miss much. The past two weeks have given us two huge bombs and two lackluster “remakes.”
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• Best Bet: The Hulk Is What’s Happening

Sorry I’m so late, but VBS has had us running around like crazy this week. In short, both of this weeks new offerings have big battles in their past to fight in order to win at the box office. The Incredible Hulk is my pick of the week, I’ll be seeing it tomorrow night and [...]

• On The Horizon: Benjamin Button

The trailer for this movie was seen by some in front of Indiana Jones. A few days later we saw one pop up online in Spanish. It is basically the same one that we have here except the dialog is in Spanish. So I’ve been waiting a few weeks for the official English trailer to [...]

• Hollywood Stock Exchange

If you didn’t know, I love movies. I love to watch them and I love to talk to other people who love movies too. I love movies because they are our society’s preferred medium for the telling of stories. I love that in approximately two hours they have the power to bring me to tears [...]

• Best Bets: Don’t Mess With the Kung Fu Panda

Well, last week Sex and the City did extremely well at the box office raking in nearly 57 million, easily overtaking the geriatric Dr. Jones who had a weak showing of only 46 million. The big winner of the weekend was the summer horror flick, The Strangers, it surprised most by having a 21 million [...]

• Red Band Trailers

I try to keep this site clean and family friendly. To me, that means avoiding profanity and sexual content, and trying to keep violence to a minimum. I do this as a service for my readers, knowing that many of them object to such content, or are offended by it. However, personally I don’t mind [...]

• Hedley Lamaar and Tribbles Director Dead

I feel like i need to make a new column for death announcements, after the Harry Potter actor and Sydney Pollack, now I have news that two more notables have passed. I hate writing the title “(insert name here) Dead.” It just feels morbid. So I’m going to start calling any death announcements here the [...]

• Best Bet: Indiana Jones

I’ll tell you, few things gets my heart pounding more than a nostalgic theme song score playing during a film. Nothing is more iconic than John Williams’ music when it comes to Indiana Jones, unless you count the humor, the adventure, the whip, and the hat. I can remember watching the trilogy over and over [...]

• S. Darko

It’s news like this that makes me glad I have not moved to Hollywood to be in the “biz,” According to Empire, Donnie Darko, that celebrated piece of indie film making with one of the strangest plots going (and one of the coolest movie websites ever), is getting a sequel. Why is the only question [...]

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