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,…
Many of us haven't even recuperated from the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie yet, and here comes the next batch of summer movies! Actually, "The Hangover II" might be the perfect remedy for those of us still swooning from our latest cinematic voyage with Captain Jack Sparrow. The much-anticipated sequel to 2009's "The Hangover"…
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…
What an awesome romantic comedy! Abbey ((Katherine Heigl), a radio producer is accustomed to working on her straight laced radio program, and she is a leader in her field. Despite her great work, the station's ratings were not high enough, so they gave her Mike (played by Gerard Butler), the star of a show called…
**1/2 out of **** Night Shyamalan is back, although maybe not in the form many had wished he would return. With The Happening, the Signs writer/producer/director gives a shot at a slightly different genre, that of the disaster movie. Blending horror, disaster, and family drama, The Happening is light-years beyond Shyamalan's painful Lady in the…
Chicago, Illinois is major city in the U.S. As such, it has enjoyed a very long partnership with Hollywood. There are movies about Chicago, filmed in Chicago, and movies that have in one way or another involved Chicagoans. It seems that the first movies filmed in Chicago may have been as early as 1915 with,…
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….
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…
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…
