Another television season has ended, and on some cliffs we’ve been left hanging–but nothing to make me crave next season. Alias, Battlestar, Lost, X-Files, and even Friends was always good for some major game-changing in the last episode, but this year’s shows aren’t quite stringing me along for next fall. Heroes – “How To Stop…
Category: Animation
Happy Feet – Movie Review
I’ll bet Pixar is kicking themselves for not being the ones who made this movie. Sure, Cars made hundreds of millions and looked really good, but overall it was pretty run-of-the-mill. On the other hand, Happy Feet (produced by Animal Logic, for Warner Brothers) is not only visually incredible (both for its super cute penguins…
Are you watching these shows?
This year I thought I’d combine my “what I watched on my summer vacation” post with some talk about shows that you might not be familiar with that I think are great. I might have a bit of trouble describing what really makes them good, but all the following shows are worth checking out. The…
Fifteen Flicks for Fall 2006
Exactly one year ago, I posted my previews of about 15 movies that sounded cool for fall 2005. I ended up watching all but three of them. This year, there are fewer movies that I am dying to see (no Harry Potters), but I still managed to cobble together a decent roster (there’s at least…
Monster House – Movie Review
Monster House is the animated tale of a group of kids living in a Leave It To Beaver-style neighbourhood who take on that creepy old house across the street (y’know the one: a cranky old man lives there who apparently hates children and is very strict that no one trespasses). It turns out that (surprise…
Cars – Movie Review
Cars is set in a world where there are no people, but cars are alive (it sounds a bit eerie, but you have to remember that it’s a cartoon so you’ll get over that feeling quite easily). The hero of the story is an up-and-coming rookie race car (i.e. athlete) named Lightning McQueen, who’s tapped…
Cartoons: The Adventure is Back
Do you remember the good ol’ days? When cartoons were full of heroic characters, fantastic villains, and exciting adventures? Remember the days of He-Man? Thundarr? Megatron? Visionaries? Orbots? Herculoids? Space Ghost? Mumm-Ra, the ever-living? Even She-Ra (in her “I’m just like He-Man but targeting the female demographic” kind of way)? For a kid like me,…
Corpse Bride (2005) – Capsule Review
Director Tim Burton’s previous voyages to the land of odd (such as Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Ed Wood), have led audiences to expect his films to be completely off-kilter. However, while Corpse Bride obviously skews towards the ghoulish, that is all that really separates it from your average animated romance. There are splashy musical…
TV Roundup: Sept. 17, 2005
Supernatural may be the show that finally fills the X-Files’s old spot as the show that I watch with the lights out. It’s definitely scary and the first episode had a shocker of an ending. Now that the background has been established, I suspect these creep-hunting brothers will start meeting their monsters-of-the-week. Threshold was the…
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