Oscar Preview 2011 Part III

  Best Picture Personal Favorite:  You know something?  For all the crying about the lack of creativity in Hollywood, I looked at the list of nominees and can say I really enjoyed half of the films and really liked most of the rest.  I’m a Nolan fanboy so I have to standup for Inception, but… […]

Quick Shots

A lot of movie talk among friends this week – I thought I’d post my thoughts on three different castings… Willow Smith in a remake of Annie – I mean, did this even have to get ‘sold’?  Little Jada has a hit song under her belt, her brother had a nice hit (and respectable remake) […]

Best of 2010

TV and film-wise, there was good work as always but I wasn’t as overwhelmed by things as I have been in years past.  There’s going to be a lot of ‘Top 10’ lists the next couple weeks; here are 5 films and TV shows that caught my eye the past 12 months: 5. Toy Story […]

Under the Red Hood

  Time for another geeky post… As the countdown to Batman 3 officially begins, Warner Brothers released an animated version of the comic story, “Under the Red Hood.”  Like its namesake, this animated film centers on a new supervillain in Gotham taking on the persona of the Red Hood.  Or rather, an ‘old’ villain.  The […]

Inception

There’s Chris Nolan and there’s everybody else right now. That was my first thought walking out of Inception a little while ago.  I’m not saying there aren’t other filmmakers capable of making films as thought provoking or visually interesting as him; nothing could be further from the truth.  But with the billion dollar Dark Knight […]