When hearing about “Hamlet 2,” many may firstly think that the poor great Shakespeare is ripping his hair off his head in his grave. Well, I wouldn’t go so far, at least until I found out more about the movie.
Firstly, because lead characters in the original “Hamlet” are all dead and it would be far-fetched [...]

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Abba fans rejoice and get ready to try really hard to control yourself.  Trust me you will have a hell of a time trying not to sing your heart out while watching this joyful romp through all the songs you know so intimately.
I had such a good time with this film.  I did not know [...]

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“Over the last two seasons, as Roger has bravely coped with his medical issues, I’ve continued the show with a number of guest co-hosts, from celebrities such as Jay Leno, Harold Ramis and John Mellencamp, to critics such as A.O. Scott of the New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune. It’s never [...]

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I have grown up with mean green & he is the one marvel character you can’t scale down because of strength. The movie brought out the true hulk not only his strength but his ability to speak that the other movie completely left out.
All the characters in this movie were the perfect cast to put [...]

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Christopher Bell is confused. In “Bigger, Stronger, Faster,” his documentary on steroid use in the United States, we first see Bell and his two brothers as children, aping their heroes, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone. Look at them now: in their 30s, unfamous, struggling to get by as we all do. None of them [...]

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The movie centers on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. When Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) comes forth with a page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth (Lincolns assassin), it allegedly links Ben Gates’ (Nicolas Cage) great-grandfather to the plot.
Ben and his father Patrick (Jon Voight) set forth to disprove the document and clear their [...]

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The collected edition of the Chronicles of Narnia that I bought for my daughter presented the books in chronological order to the story. This is a travesty beyond words since it makes you begin with The Magician’s Nephew which is, in the Nania time-line, the first story. It sure wasn’t the first written and reading [...]

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As Hollywood continues to mine the cartoons of Generation-X’s youth I wonder if we’ll see a live-action Smurfs movie with CGI-blue actors and Jessica Alba as Smurfette. When I heard they were making Speed Racer into a movie I was basically nonplussed.
It was primitive in some respects, violent by cartoon standards (people did die going [...]

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It had been four years since filmgoers have seen Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) grace the silver screen, but the crazy kids are at it again in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Their last adventure found them traveling across country to find a White Castle hamburger in order to [...]

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One of the guys who made it look that way, who made the crazy idea that movie critics could thrive on TV seem like a no-brainer, recently announced his departure from the airwaves. On April 1 Roger Ebert published a letter to readers of The Chicago Sun-Times that was essentially a farewell to the [...]

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