I think Robert Zemeckis' creepy animation style is starting to grow on me. While his previous christmas movie, "The Polar Express" still holds a special place in my heart as the scariest holiday film of all time, "A Christmas Carol" makes a gallant...(read more)

Made for $15,000 (the entire movie was filmed in the director's house) two years ago, Paranormal Activity has made an astounding $85 million since it's wide release earlier this fall. This success is in large part due to the trailers, which showed ...(read more)

"This movie is for the fans- This is it", This is the business that is "show".

The movie opens with scrolling text which tells us this footage was shot in April of 2009, backstage as Michael Jackson was rehearsing for his upcoming world t...(read more)

Astro Boy has been popular in Japan for quite awhile. The original cartoon series ran from 1963 to 1966 and is "credited as the first anime cartoon" (imdb.com). I heard someone giving an interview on tv refer to it as "Japan's version of Mickey Mo...(read more)

I saw Where the Wild Things Are twice, two nights in a row. My hopes for this film were not that high, I'm not a life-long fan of the children's book and was expecting nothing more than perhaps a 2-hour Spike Jonze music video. I left the theater ...(read more)

I think you could take all the zombie movies made in the last 6 or 7 years and link them together in a collected anthology. Quarantine, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and now Zombieland could be a series of films documenting zombie outbreaks in v...(read more)

The Informant is an odd little movie (based on a true story) that's quirky yet not necessarily comedic. Matt Damon (in a superb, possibly ocar-worthy performance?) stars as Mark Whitacre, a nutritional biochemist and rising executive with Archer Da...(read more)

The Invention of Lying offers quite a bit of insight into the psyche of writer/director Ricky Gervais. In a world where no one can lie, people are constantly telling him how fat and repulsive he is. Unsolicited. This is probably the biggest drawb...(read more)

By now, anyone with kids should be well familiar with the animated feature archetypes: the boy genius/wildebeest/robot/rat chef is misunderstood by his family/town/fellow wildebeests, but with the help of the one special female who believes in him, ...(read more)

Director Nora Ephron combines the memoirs of Julia Child and blogger Julie Powell in her latest film, "Julie & Julia". Julie wants to be a writer, but also wants fulfillment in her life, so she decides to write a blog about cooking (specifically, c...(read more)