When it comes to bad movies, I tend to have a rather high threshold for pain. Its rare for me to even be tempted to walk out of a movie, and I’ve never actually done so. The last film I was tempted to walk out of was Movie 43 – a hate crime against the … Continue reading Movie Review – MALEFICENT
It’s no secret that movies based on video games have a tendency to be really bad. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time might be the best of them, but calling a middling, forgettable movie like that the best of anything only goes to show how deeply flawed this category is. The problem, at least … Continue reading Movie Review – EDGE OF TOMORROW
SPOILERS AHEAD. You have been warned. Back in my recap for Episode Two of The Wolf Among Us, I described it as being a bit of a bridging episode; an episode where pieces move around the board to set up major turns of the plot, but not very many turns happen within the episode itself. … Continue reading THE WOLF AMONG US Recap – “In Sheep’s Clothing”
Let’s have a conversation about tone. In the most general sense, tone is the way that a movie feels. Is a movie scary? Is it funny? Is it serious, or is it silly? Tone is something that can vary wildly between movies, even within the same genre, and can even change within a movie from … Continue reading Movie Review – Godzilla
Ugggggggggghhhhhhhhhh… Look, I didn’t like The Amazing Spider-Man, not at all. It was one of the most shockingly incompetent big-budget movies I’ve seen in recent memory, aside from completely misunderstanding who its title character is. That being said, Spider-Man is my favorite superhero, and I really desperately want to see a great Spider-Man movie again. … Continue reading Movie Review – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
SPOILERS AHEAD. You have been warned. In the past I’ve frowned upon the episodic model of releasing games. I had often seen it used to sell unfinished games broken up into pieces rather than giving you a complete product worthy of your time and money. In some cases, these games would never even be fully … Continue reading The Wolf Among Us Recap – “A Crooked Mile”
The original 1979 The Muppet Movie is an indisputable classic. The leap of taking Jim Henson’s Muppet characters from a half-hour television variety show to a feature length motion picture musical must have been a daunting task, but the first time out the gate they did it so well that 35 years and seven films … Continue reading Movie Review – Muppets Most Wanted
I’m back again with another set of pictures from Disneyland. This month I decided to spend some more time with Disneyland’s sister park, Disney California Adventure. California Adventure is a park that has had a fairly remarkable transformation, yet still has a few areas that still are problematic from both a design and thematic standpoint. … Continue reading Pictures from Disneyland – February 2014
So many of the great effects in Disneyland are based on the idea of a reveal. Turning a corner in almost absolute darkness, hearing screams and a disembodied voice up ahead before you round the turn to see the source of the voice: a ghostly Jolly Roger above a dark archway. Emerging from the inside … Continue reading Reveals in the Haunted Mansion or: How it Took Seeing an Effect Broken to Realize That I Didn’t Like it.
Oh DreamWorks Animation, what will we do with you? It’s clear that you’re trying so hard to reinvent yourselves, to take that genuine affection people have for How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda and recreate it in your other films. In some ways you’re getting REALLY close, but you just can’t stop … Continue reading Movie Review – Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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