Christmas 2010? Who can wait that long???

I just came back from the movies, taking my four-year old daughter and the slightly older neighbor's daughter to see Dr Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!. It's an excellent movie, and the animation is exceedingly fun to watch. I can highly recommend it, and the young ladies enjoyed it very much.

Even more relevant for me though was the combination of ( Read more... )

Some of you have met my younger brother, _hjk_, who is a creative director at his own advertising company and is also moving into the film industry. I just got a link to a site that has his latest short, which I thought was really really funny. I had a chance to read the screenplay during pre-production, so it was nice to see how the visualization had ( Read more... )

Or French food in general, because Ratatouille is on its way.
( Trailer Spoilers )

When I heard that 300 was coming out, the movie based on the Frank Miller comics about the Spartans holding the Thermopylae pass against the Persian invading army, I was pretty excited.

I am not the biggest Frank Miller fan there ever was, but both _MWife_ and I like his film noir touches. It's a lot like my attitude toward Dashiell Hammett: I prefer ( Read more... )

In preparation for the new Tim Burton movie Corpse Bride, I finally watched a birthday present, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999) for the first time.
( Review == Spoilers )