Let’s address the Titanic comparisons first.  Yes, Leonardo and Kate are again the love interest, this time as Frank and April Wheeler.  You’ll have to imagine all but a scene or two or their falling in love  - before you’ve finished the popcorn, they are 1950′s suburbanites with two kids.  And yes, there are other [...]

Seven Pounds is a powerful, mysterious film, slow to reveal itself, but engaging all the way.  In the opening minutes, we hear Will Smith’s character make a 911 call reporting a suicide – his own – before flashing back to a series of seemingly random, inconsistent, disconnected actions.  He tells us that he has shattered [...]

This is your captain speaking – thank you for choosing Air Penguin.  As a wholly owned subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation, we aim to please.  In that spirit, when brainstorming ideas for the sequel to the popular Madagascar movie, we said yes to absolutely every thing.  That’s right, we cut nothing. Adventure?  Check – the penguins [...]

Religulous?  For starters, it rhymes with incredulous.  As in “Bill Maher can’t help being incredulous in the face of anything he deems supernatural,” or “Bill Maher is incredulous that anyone could think differently than he does” – you get the idea.  On the surface, the 100 plus minute mockumentary is a humorous exposé of the [...]