Atlantis: The Lost Empire, an imaginative and eye-popping mix of action, adventure, and sweeping vision landscapes filled with gorgeous computer enhanced animation. Continuing on its recent arc of solid storylines in its animation and quality visuals, Atlantis is successful in both being a wide eyed roller coaster ride for kids and is interesting enough to […]
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Alexander (Colin Farrell), the son of Philip of Macedonia (Val Kilmer), becomes king of the known world by age 25. Starting in Greece, the insatiable scourge moves his devoted army east, swallowing up new lands and cultures like Fear Factor contestants swallow cow eyeballs. Rarely satisfied by combat or carnal knowledge, Alexander splits his devotions
Adapted from the mega-popular biweekly Japanese comic strip, Katsuhiro Otomoto’s Akira pares down the epic graphic novel into two hours of purely visceral animated carnage. What lacks in coherence is made up for by brutal energy, starting off with a blood soaked shooting, mutant kids on the run, a kick ass motorcycle chase straight from
Disney’s version of Aladdin and his magic lamp is one of its best animated features terrific songs and gorgeous colors, thrilling action sequences and big laughs. It doesn’t have the classical emotional weight of Beauty and the Beast, which came out a year earlier, but it’s one of the only Disney films to break out
There are times when Mike Nichols’ long-awaited HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner’s award riddled Reagan era AIDS epic play, Angels in America, just about achieves that grand moment of completion that it’s been striving for, and the failure to do so is almost heartbreaking. There are numerous reasons why Kushner’s play has never been brought
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uncharacteristic performances in Punch-Drunk Love and About Schmidt, Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson have returned to their roots in Anger Management. In Sandler’s case, it’s as the dim-bulb Everyman who sings with a falsetto; in Nicholson’s, as the crazed lunatic with eyebrows of steel. These two performers come together for the first time in a
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Thank Home Vision Entertainment for bringing the movie back into light and for telling its story it’s actually more interesting than the movie itself. The tale goes that in 1954, the CIA was looking for ways to spread anti-Communist propaganda to do its part to fight the Cold War. Animal Farm seemed like a likely
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It’s always a shame when good comedic talent goes bad, and a pleasant surprise when that finally lands a decent role in a funny film. Nothing has been expected of Rob Schneider since his departure from the hellhole of mind-numbing roles like the Copy Guy Richmeister and the Weed Guy on Saturday Night Live, as
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Mike Judge, creator of the sublime Beavis & Butt-Head and perennial underdog King of the Hill (yes, it’s good!) and Don Hertzfeldt, who is less widely known but beloved by anyone who has seen one of the more recent editions of Spike & Mike. The idea is to collect the best new animation as well
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Like a group therapy session with no psychologist in sight (unless that scary principal counts), The Breakfast Club is often considered the Most Meaningful of all the John Hughes teen movies. And while that very well might be the case, that doesn’t necessarily make it the best of those movies; that prize would most likely
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