A couple of days ago, Roger Ebert voiced his less than positive opinion of 3D films, basically saying that just having things pop out at the audience doesn’t really make the audience feel like they’re part of the movie, or even make the film seem realistic at all. Like Ebert, I don’t have the fondest [...]

I have read and re-read the following about a dozen times, and still remain unable to completely wrap my head around it. Let’s see if you have any better luck. According to The Hollywood Reporter: “Grizzly Adams Prods. is doing a 3D remaster of “The Fabric of Life,” a docudrama that examines physical evidence of [...]

I know what you’re probably thinking…’Frankenweenie’ sounds like the title for a really sketchy, Halloween themed, -ahem- adult film, right? In reality, it is just one more family-friendly piece of brilliance from the mind of director Tim Burton. One of Burton’s first projects, Frankenweenie is a black and white short film about young Vincent, whose [...]

It takes skill to make a franchise of movies that remains consistently good from the original movie to each subsequent movie. The Resident Evil franchise is one that I feel has managed to do this. However, this may be due to a personal bias that Resident Evil‘s character ‘Alice’ is one of the best female [...]

For my screenwriting class this week, I was tasked with reading Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay for Adaptation before watching the film. It was a learning experience in terms of deciphering Kaufman’s dense style, but also in remembering that Nicolas Cage can be really terrific. But then there’s Next. And Ghost Rider. And National Treasure 2. And [...]

The scoop came in from the lovely people at Coming Soon! from someone who took part in viewing 24 minutes of James Cameron’s upcoming (supposedly phenomenal) piece, Avatar. Presented in what people who have witnessed it claim it to be the best 3D movie that’s ever been in theaters, here is an in depth description [...]