[Movies]
Serpent Babe opens across America in 2012
I feel obligated to admit in this lede that I have not read the mystery novel-turned-international phenomenon this film is based on. I do not feel obligated, however, to hide the movie's horribly kept secret in this review, and so I'll insert the phrase "spoiler alert" here.
[DVD Reviews]
CHRISTOPHER POMERENKE
LIGHTYEAR
3.9.10
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'Twas not so brillig
By now you know that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is not the dark, psychedelic masterpiece we all expected. At this point, the critical masses have spoken, faulting our generation's spookiest director for dropping the ball on fully utilizing 3-D effects, continuing to wrench Johnny Depp for every drop of oddball mannerism he can muster and continuing to rely on Helena Bonham Carter to look wild-eyed and emaciated. But here's a few items Dig HQ cannot let go unnoticed.
[DVD Reviews]
SPECIAL EDITION
HAYAO MIYAZAKI
DISNEY PRESENTS STUDIO GHIBLI
3.2.10
[Movies]
What to watch for ... through your cupped fingers
Oscar opened up his Best Picture 2010 category to 10 nominees not to extend the broadcast into April, nor to accommodate animated films, but because 2010 was an atrocious year for commercial movies.
[Movies]
If a tree falls in the forest, will someone make a documentary about it?
As the era of documentaries atrophies, the reflexive nature of medium is starting to fray.
[DVD Reviews]
DOLPH LUNDGREN
SONY PICTURES
2.2.10
[Movies]
Craggy, creepy, criminal and crazy
Martin Scorsese has returned with a dark bag of new tricks and his muse, Leonardo DiCaprio (aka Saint Leo, patron saint of hardened cops with Boston accents and broken hearts).
[DVD Reviews]
GERARD BUTLER, MICHAEL C. HALL
LIONSGATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
1.19.10
[DVD Reviews]
HOWARD ZINN
A&E HOME VIDEO
2.9.10