“Tale as old as time./Song as old as rhyme./Beauty and the Beast.” Mrs. Potts, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Oh, yes. Mrs. Potts said it best about this story. It’s long been one of my favorite fairy tales. One of the things I find fascinating about it is the fact that it has numerous incarnations [...]
This weekend I went with my husband and saw I Am Number Four. I find SciFi movies great, although I wouldn’t write one myself. I’m more into fantasy. There’s nothing like a good SciFi movie right before a nice dinner of sushi with your husband, though. The movie was based off the book by Pittacus [...]
You know how sometimes you’ll just go and see something because an actor or actress is in it that you like? I rarely do that, but I did it in this case, and without doing my homework. I don’t recommend doing that at all. ALWAYS do your homework before seeing a movie, especially if you [...]
Today, I thought I’d take a different tact and talk about a subject that’s very pervasive in media, and has been for a long time: why do movies based on books mostly suck? Whether it’s The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, Eragon, or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Hollywood just can’t seem to get [...]
Most people have at least heard of Tron or seen pictures from this 80′s Disney movie. I didn’t get to see it when it came out. I was 9 years old at the time, and I wanted to see it, but I didn’t. It may look very cheesey now, but this movie was state of [...]
Many of us, myself included, grew up reading C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series. For those completely weird people who still don’t know, Narnia is a fantasy land, with talking animals, castles and the like, ruled by the great, magical lion, Aslan. This land is repeatedly visited by the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, who [...]
Rapunzel. Lots of little girls know the story. It’s made more than one girl want to grow her hair long, including me, not to mention bag herself a real, live prince when she grew up. Disney just last week released a new movie, “Tangled,” that was based on the story. On Black Friday this year, [...]
We’ve seen a lot of movies making fun of pop culture and teenagers. Some of them turn into classics, like Clueless, and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off while others go the way of My Best Friend’s a Vampire and disappear from public view and memory. We’ve seen movies influenced by video games, and some work, such [...]
Jackie Chan. The name brings to mind Kung Fu, goofiness, and fun. The Karate Kid, however, is a somewhat serious coming of age movie from the 80′s, arguably one of the better ones, and has left its own stamp on our culture. In this age of movies where Hollywood seems to have lost its imagination, [...]
I love Queen Latifah, and I have since she appeared in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Chicago. She’s funny, versitile, and always fun to watch. Besides, I’ve always liked full figured women actors a lot better than half-starved women like Milla Jovovitch (although I do like Milla. I just like Latifah more). This [...]
