The Spiderwick Chronicles: Two-Disc Field Guide Edition
June 24, 2008
Like The Golden Compass (2007), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) is an adaptation of a series of popular children’s novels and made in the hopes of kick-starting a lucrative franchise a la Harry Potter. The film received mostly positive reviews and...
A Good Year
March 10, 2007
File this film under “what the hell were they thinking?” Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott follow-up their successful collaboration in Gladiator (2000) with A Good Year (2006), a warm and fuzzy mid-life crisis dramedy (?!) that plays out like a sub par...
A Good Year
March 7, 2007
File this film under “what the hell were they thinking?” Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott follow-up their successful collaboration in Gladiator (2000) with A Good Year (2006), a warm and fuzzy mid-life crisis dramedy (?!) that plays out like a sub par...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Deluxe Edition
February 14, 2006
When Johnny Depp and Tim Burton team up to do a movie the results are usually fantastic: Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994) and to a lesser degree Sleepy Hollow (1999). However, since Planet of the Apes (2001), Burton’s films have been missing...
Finding Neverland
October 28, 2005
What made author James M. Barrie such a brilliant fantasist is that he could see the world differently, as a child might and was not tied down by society’s stuffy conventions. Finding Neverland (2004) is based loosely on an account of how he wrote his...
