Monthly Archives: March 2011
Retro Review: Alex & Emma
Director Rob Reiner, Kate Hudson and Luke Wilson have decided to square-off against a green-skinned behemoth. They are packing a weapon to help stall the green goliath. What is their secret weapon? Heart-strings, of course. Alex (Luke Wilson) is a starving-blocked writer who must finish his follow-up to his best-selling novel in 30 days or [...]
Retro Review: Ice Age: The Meltdown
Back in 2002, computer animated films were just starting to take off and we hadn’t seen the likes of “Finding Nemo” and “The Incredibles”. 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios stepped into the ring with a new style of CGI animation and we all witnessed the dawn of “Ice Age”. The film followed a [...]
Retro Review: Ice Age
Twentieth Century Fox jumps into the computer-animation arena with the new animated film “Ice Age”. The film tells the story of four “sub-zero heroes” who team up to escort an adorable and very lost baby back to his tribe. First there is Diego (Denis Leary), a saber-toothed tiger who is harboring a secret. Second is [...]
Retro Review: Ocean’s 12
The assembly of such an impressive cast that Ocean’s Eleven had seemed to be only an act that a director like Robert Altman (The Player and Short Cuts) could accomplish. But do it twice, that’s unheard of. Well not for director Steven Soderbergh, who brings back everyone from his smash hit Ocean’s Eleven and even [...]
Retro Review: Ocean’s 11
Written: December 10, 2001 Slick, stylish and star heavy are some of the words that will spring forth from the mouths of movie-goers when they venture to see “Ocean’s Eleven”, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh. Way back in 1960, “Ocean’s Eleven” became a staple film of the infamous “Rat Pack” [...]
Retro Review: Dawn of the Dead
There are staples of a genre and then there are the immortals. George A. Romero’s 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead” is still one of the greatest horror films of all time. It still holds its own and scares the pants off you with each viewing. It is eternal. Ten years after that classic, [...]
Retro Review: Secondhand Lions
The tradition of a solid family film filled with intrigue, delightful characters and a sense of adventure seems to be lost in the quagmire of the ever-evolving multiplex. That tradition saw a re-ignition when Disney released HOLES last spring and FREAKY FRIDAY last month. It seems the family film is back in a big way [...]
