Hiya, Kids!! A ’50s Saturday Morning
June 12, 2008
The folks at the Shout Factory have cornered the market on nostalgia and are at it again with Hiya, Kids!! A ‘50s Saturday Morning, a primer of vintage children’s television programs from the 1950s. They have compiled the cream of the crop with the...
The Invasion
January 29, 2008
To say that The Invasion (2007) had a troubled production history is a mild understatement. Director Oliver Hirschbiegel set out to make an artier and edgier take on Jack Finney’s classic science fiction novel, The Body Snatchers. However, the studio...
Sunshine
January 4, 2008
In some respects, Danny Boyle is Britain’s answer to Steven Soderbergh – a filmmaker who moves effortlessly from independent to studio films and works in a variety of genres: gritty drug drama (Trainspotting), kids film (Millions) and edgy horror...
Flood
October 26, 2007
I’m a huge movie lover. I’ve spent the last 30 odd years watching films and I have got to say ‘Flood’ is by far the biggest honk of Camel shit I’ve ever sat through – 120 minutes of pure pain. The basic “premise” runs like this…estranged...
Transformers: Special Edition
October 17, 2007
In the 1980s, Transformers were one of the most popular and profitable toy lines. So much so that the franchise expanded into a long-running cartoon, a movie, a comic book, and so on. It was only a matter of time (and money) before someone would try a...
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
October 5, 2007
Artists have always been fascinated by the planet Mars, from books like H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, to films like Invaders from Mars (1953) and The Angry Red Planet (1960). Screenwriter Ib Melchior...
Face/Off: Special Collector’s Edition
September 18, 2007
It took two Hollywood films (Hard Target and Broken Arrow) before John Woo was allowed to cut loose with his trademark style on Face/Off (1997). The result was his most commercially and critically successful American film at that point in his career....
Renaissance
July 23, 2007
Renaissance (2006) is an animated film made in the tradition of Sin City (2005) and A Scanner Darkly (2006). Like the former film, it was initially shot with live actors on a green-screen soundstage and then this footage was animated like the latter film....
Transformers
July 3, 2007
Friday June 22nd, and some of the staff from TheTransformers.Net and TransformersTheMovie.com made the long and arduous journey down to London for the premier of Transformers. That’s right, despite our long running and publicised feud with Don Murphy...
Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster
June 29, 2007
What more could any Godzilla fan ask for from a movie that features a prophetess from the planet Venus, supernatural intrigue, James Bond-esque thrills, and three monsters teaming up to battle a three-headed space dragon? Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster...
