The minions have taken the world by storm. Since their first appearance in 2010’s Despicable Me, the little yellow sidekicks have been wreaking havoc absolutely everywhere. The minion-mania knows no boundaries: t-shirts, lunch boxes, fancy dress costumes and fart guns have inundated the world. When Despicable Me 2, in which the minions featured more prominently, grossed nearly a […]
One thing to understand about Seth MacFarlane is that for a man of our contemporary time, he also lives and breathes something more conventional, evident by how often he tips his hat to much of the films and music that inspired him growing up. This can be found in everything he touches from Family Guy, […]
Have you ever wondered what goes on inside the mind of a child going through some growing pains? Well, Pixar has created a movie that explores the complex terrain of getting older with its striking 15th animated feature Inside Out. This concept has been explored before, TV’s Herman’s Head, but never in such a sophisticated and touching […]
I went into Jurassic World with plenty of mixed feelings. While Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies (seeing the 3D IMAX re-release is one of the high points of my movie watching career), the sequels never really did anything for me. I didn’t dislike them, but they just never had the magic that […]
If you were to judge this movie based on the last time Melissa McCarthy headlined a project (that would be last year’s Tammy), you might expect that Spy would be a horrible waste of time. And you would be very wrong, at least from the viewpoint of this reviewer. Every project should be a clean […]
A movie called San Andreas could only be about one thing: Earthquakes! Absolutely no two ways about it. We’re not talking about a series of your run-of-the-mill quakes that knock over a few buildings and put a couple cracks in the ground. We’re talking about a kind of quake so massive that its effects could be […]
Movies have a soft spot in our hearts. They present us with engaging, moving stories that can entertain as well as make us think. It is in the thinking of a movie long after the credits have rolled and we have gone back to our lives, that the movie continues to exist beyond the confines […]
Paper Moon, the latest entry into Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series, comes with a heavy dose of nostalgia. In 1973, Peter Bogdanovich, on top form after the success of The Last Picture Show and What’s Up, Doc?, looked back fondly at pre-war America and a golden age of Hollywood filmmaking. Nostalgia is timeless, which is why his adaptation of Joe David Brown’s novel remains […]
Gil Kenan may have brought Poltergeist into the 21st century (ditching the spooky CRT television for a glitchy iPhone), but much like the film’s desecrated graveyard, it should probably have been left alone. Vacant sarcasm and narrative banality prevail over fresh ideas, ensuring Poltergeist‘s spot among the myriad of needlessly “updated” horror films remade only […]
Imagine a place where the world’s most intelligent and highly creative minds came together to do what they do best, create and inspire. What would that place look like? What would it mean for us and how could it change our world? Disney’s Tomorrowland addresses the pros and cons of such questions and does so […]
