Movies

For the most part, children aren’t utilized in movies to a large extent.  One of the main reasons is that most children aren’t that good at acting.  It’s obviously a stressful and grueling job which…

Conventional wisdom dictates that a book will always be better than the movie that it’s being adapted into, regardless of how good that movie actually turns out to be.  Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings was…

Despite the fashionability of trashing its lackluster prequels, Star Wars still looms large over the cultural pantheon as the definitive narrative of the 20th Century.  It’s a multigenerational epic that’s survived everything from Christmas specials to Jar Jar Binks,…

Stop motion is an animation technique that dates as far back as 1898.  An object (often made of clay) is is photgraphed and moved slightly in each separate frame, and the illusion of movement is created when…

There has been a very disturbing trend increasing in Broadway over the last 20 years.  It’s the turning of normal movies into musicals.  Granted there have been some successful musicals turned into movies such as…

There are countless movies that are either about sports or feature sports, ranging from baseball to football to auto racing to pool.  There are a few, though, that are about or feature sports that are…

Most of you probably heard about Christian Bale’s little outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation a few years back.  If you haven’t, I highly recommend listening to it.  You might think twice about liking…

Robots in movies has always been a fascinating subject.  On the one hand Robots carry that machine like mystique that enables them to do things that we humans can’t.  And that factor alone leads us…

We can argue the merits of baseball as an exciting sport until the end of time (I say it’s the best), but instead let’s look at movies based on or about baseball.  The overwhelming majority…