Santa Claus brings more than gifts to kids during Christmas. The Easter Bunny offers up more than jelly beans and eggs at Easter. The Tooth Fairy does more than swap teeth for cash. They, among others (Sandman, Jack Frost), are the immortal Guardians whose purpose is to the protect the beliefs and imaginations of the…
Count Dracula is an enterprising fellow. He runs the Hotel Transylvania — the resort for monsters and their families to come to to kick back and relax. But relaxation isn’t in the cards for Dracula when an ordinary human stumbles upon his hidden retreat and takes a liking to his 118 year-old daughter, Mavis. The…
The second trailer for the upcoming yuckfest The Three Stooges starts off with the statement: Before “Jackass,” there was dumbass. How right they are. It’s nothing but belly bopping, ass kicking, face slapping, eye gouging, prat fall lunacy as Larry, Moe and Curly bumble their way into a murder plot back at their childhood home….
Of all the problems you want in your village, probably the last one would be having dragons destroying your crops and livestock. In How to Train Your Dragon, a wonderful animated film from DreamWorks Animation studio based on a novel by Cressida Cowell, these pesky creatures ignore the no-fly zone and create havoc in the…
Not having been the biggest fan of the previous three Ice Age movies, I can’t say I’m overly enthusiastic about the fourth, Ice Age: Continental Drift. The “endearing” prehistoric sloth, mammoth, sabertooth tiger and squirrel find themselves on a seafaring adventure — this time around when an earthquake causes the continents to break and drift…
Orange is the new green in Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda’s eco-friendly, family flick The Lorax. Based on a Dr. Seuss book of the same name, it’s the latest offering from Illumination Entertainment — the studio behind 2010’s “Despicable Me.” Released on what would been the author’s 108th birthday, the animated feature explores the topic…
What normally happens to weird kids who proclaim to see and talk to ghosts? They get ignored, ostracized and/or bullied. Which is exactly what happens to little Norman in Focus Features’ claymation pic ParaNorman, that is until the town needs his peculiar gift. For reasons unknown (the trailer hints to a 300th anniversary of a…
