Social satire is tough to create and maintain.  Witness this attempt to satirize the meaning of fame and success in modern America, where anyone can be famous for pretty much anything, and the desire for such fame — and perceived […]

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I’ll say for this in defense of Unearth: it’s different.  It’s a horror film that isn’t horrifying until the final ten minutes or so, and then the tonal shift of the material is so drastic that it seems to be from […]

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In general I find the Disney studio’s recent trend to create live-action versions of their animated classics to be redundant and tiresome.  It’s probably a brilliant business decision, but it seems to me that later versions cannot help but cheapen […]

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