Superheroes-R-Us

Younger readers may find this difficult to believe, but there was actually a time when Disney wasn’t the first word in animation. Before there was The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King, there was The Black Cauldron, The Fox and the Hound, and The Rescuers. While those latter three movies were [...]

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the latest direct-to-DVD offering from DC Entertainment and Warner Premiere, is possibly the best animated movie yet featuring DC characters. Factor in an amazing voice cast (James Woods, Gina Torres, William Baldwin, and Mark Harmon) with the great storyline by veteran animation and comic writer Dwayne McDuffie (Ben 10, [...]

Twenty Years! It’s hard for me to believe that the Simpsons have been on television for more than twenty years now. The show surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest running show in television history and it’s still running – admittedly not as strong as it used to be.
As Paramount has released season after season of the [...]

Surrogates begins with an admonishment: We are not meant to live our lives…to experience the world…through machines. The irony that you’re reading these words on a computer that you might use to surf the Net, play World of Warcraft, or communicate to distant friends or relatives via email or Skype should not be lost on [...]

I’ve admitted here before to not being a big Family Guy fan. It’s really that I’ve not watched Family Guy, than a dislike for the show. The one episode I’ve seen in it’s entirety is the Star Wars spoof Blue Harvest. I remember being excited about watching it and not being disappointed. I’ve had the [...]

Getting past my initial disappointment that the movie G-Force was not a big-screen adaptation of the Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets franchise, I’ll admit I was still slightly intrigued by the film. Yes, it’s for kids (and I guessed mine would want to see it).  However, it also resembled the Warner Bros. film Cats and Dogs [...]

Wow! I had forgotten just how much I loved Season 5 of LOST. The show has managed to stay creatively fresh for five seasons and after a slight slump in the second and third season, the cast, crew and creative team roared back to life for Seasons four and five.
Pared down to only 17 episodes, [...]