Movie Review: KUNG FU PANDA 2.

      Kung Fu Panda 2 contains at least one landmark:  It’s the first time I’ve ever seen acupuncture performed in a kids movie.  It doesn’t last long, but it’s specific and eccentric enough to be noteworthy. More importantly, this is a good sequel.  It expands on a few of the story threads established [...]

SCREENING IN NYC: Wall*E (2008).

  The Metropolitan Museum Of Art is running a great film series this month called Pixar Revisited, where they will be screening pretty much the entire catalogue of the much-loved, industry-revolutionizing animation house.   Wall-E, maybe my favorite Pixar movie to date, is screening tomorrow, Friday, at 4:30pm, and then again on Saturday July 9th at 8pm.  Here’s [...]

What I Watched 3.16.11: RANGO.

Rango is fun, very quirky, and imaginative, although after a while it starts to feel like every one of its 107 minutes.  But I can never speak too poorly of an animated movie about lizards that finds room for cameos from Hunter S. Thompson and Clint Eastwood. It’s a bizarre mélange of blatant influences and [...]

What I Watched 11.28.10: Land Of The Dead/ Tangled/ On Dangerous Ground.

 

Now On DVD: TOY STORY 3.

 Here’s what happened when I took to the internet to belatedly push a product that everyone in America has already tasted.  Hey you guys, ever heard of vanilla ice cream? It’s yummy… I didn’t write about Toy Story 3 when it was released this past summer because we had another writer cover it for [...]

Cult Classics: MAD MONSTER PARTY? (1967)

Watching this with my niece right now. Wrote this about it last year: 1967’s Mad Monster Party? (the question mark is official) is a Frankenstein’s monster of a kid’s movie, patched together from two wildly different brands whose heyday was the late 1960s: One is MAD Magazine, the irreverent periodical famous for comic strips and jokes [...]