The Labyrinth (1986)Was there anything hotter in the '80s than David Bowie? That's what I thought. Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is just a frustrated babysitter. Her baby brother, Toby, refuses to stop crying despite all of her attempts to appease him. In her anger, she accidentally conjures goblins from her favorite book, The Labyrith (obviously), to…
For fans of Independent Films, the Bay area offers quite a selection. From San Francisco, East Bay, to South Bay or "The Peninsula", the Landmark Theaters are dedicated to marketing independent films. With five locations in San Francisco, four in East bay and two in South Bay, locals can choose between Embarcadero Center Cinema, Shattuck…
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a famous movie producer? With The Movies, a new game released by Activision, players experience what it is like to run a multi-million dollar studio, answer the demands of celebrities, build a movie empire from the ground up, and deal with everything else a "real" Hollywood producer deals with….
According to the blurb on the box, director Susan Seidelman's 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan is about a simple, presumably comic case of mistaken identity. Rosanna Arquette's character Roberta, a New Jersey housewife, gets hit on the head, develops amnesia, and is mistaken for "free spirit" Susan, played by Madonna. What the blurb doesn't intimate,…
After amassing a rather large collection of VHS movies, like many other old collections associated with electronics, VHS tapes are just about obsolete. Not only do they take up a considerable amount of space, but they are also no longer wanted because of newer and better options. Like many other people, I prefer Blu-ray or…
I'm a Woody Allen fan, and certainly I can understand wanting to do an homage to his work, but for me this movie is too much an attempt to copy Annie Hall. Normally I would think it unfair to grade a film down just because it's clearly inferior to some classic film I love, but…
Macbeth movies are relatively few in number compared to film treatments of other plays by Shakespeare. Still, the best Macbeth movies are so good they could make you forget the curse that keeps superstitious actors from speaking the name of the Scottish play. These are 5 of the best Macbeth films including one that never…
Okay, let's start up Windows movie maker. Click on Start, All programs, and then Windows movie maker. If you're using windows XP, you first have to go to Accessories first. In this tutorial I'm going to add some music, some text and some transitions to my video. First I'm going to File, and then Import…
Stretch Armstrong first came out as a toy in 1976. Made by Kenner (now owned by Hasbro). A ripped blonde guy in a pair of black swimming trunks, his arms and legs were rubber and filled with gel so that they could literally be stretched to extraordinary lengths. If this sounds to you like Mr….
This is a short primer for bizarre kids movie known as Shorts. This movie will be in theaters on August 21st, 2009. The trailer for this film can be found at http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/shorts/ The Plot: Black Falls is your typical suburban neighborhood on the surface and the Thompson's appear to be your typical suburban family. That…
