What to do when something moving and nuanced is counterweighted with heavy-handedness and caricature?
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight (DEATH AT A FUNERAL TRAILER…Again…)
I saw a trailer Saturday that left me a tad perplexed. I count myself a big fan of Frank Oz’s film DEATH AT A FUNERAL. The 2008 flick has a lot of dry British humour, features a brilliant bit of eccentric acting by Firefly alum Alan Tudyk, and even made my list of the top…
THE BOX
When Santa Claus brings with him death and mystery, you know something ain’t right.
ENCHANTED
An awful lot of my childhood was spent immersed in Walt Disney’s stories and movies. My bedtime picture books were all from Disney movies, and a lot of what I watched early on were Disney classics like SNOW WHITE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and PINOCCHIO (which was the first movie I ever watched on a big…