Sure, Tim Burton directed this new loose adaptation of the Lewis Carroll novels “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass,” but you know exactly what to expect with him: Gothic art direction and loony characters. What makes a Tim Burton movie something more than just a visual delight is its screenplay. This one was […]
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The Oscar Fix, Episode 5 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this first episode, Eric and JD predict the winner in the newly expanded 10 movie Best Picture race.
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Disney may have the most famous one, but it wasn’t the only studio to adapt Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” Check this weird, disturbing clip of W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty in a 1933 live-action adaptation. Classic-era movies STILL have the best special effects, man. This is creepy stuff. (Thanks, DailyBeast!)
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If you’ve ever tuned in to Afentra’s Big Fat Morning Buzz on Kansas City’s alternative rock station KRBZ, you’ll know that Afentra gives co-host Scoops a huge amount of crap all the time. I was on the show this morning and it was no exception. Poor Scoops spent all this time doing a parody of […]
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Coming off of the disastrous critical and box office reception to Showgirls in 1995, director Paul Verhoeven decided to return to the science fiction genre he was best known for, adapting Robert Heinlein’s much-revered, juvenile-oriented novel “Starship Troopers.” Verhoeven was known for the hyper-violent “RoboCop” and “Total Recall,” so filmgoers were ready for giant bugs […]
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The Oscar Fix, Episode 4 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this fourth episode, Eric and JD predict the winners in Best Animated Film and Best Director.
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The Oscar Fix, Episode 3 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD from Scene-Stealers.com pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this third episode, Eric and JD predict the winners in Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress.
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It makes sense that the man who directed such iconic films as “Clerks” and “Dogma”—which constantly reference movies from the 1980s—would be behind the lens on “Cop Out,” a throwback tribute to the buddy cop movies of the same era. What doesn’t make sense is that “Cop Out” is completely devoid of the inspired and […]
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I’m sure you get as tired of hearing it as I get of writing it: Here is yet another horror remake. At least this new version of “The Crazies” has one thing that the 1973 George Romero original was lacking—a real sense of community among the soon-to-be-afflicted. It may be achieved through mere glimpses and […]
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The Oscar Fix, Episode 2 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this episode, they predict the winners in Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. Oh yeah, and lasers shoot the Oscar logo and it explodes! Don’t forget: Michael Bay is also a […]
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The Oscar Fix, Episode 1 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this first episode, Eric and JD predict the winners in Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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You know the kind of thriller that works only at surface value, skirts cliché at every turn, keeps stringing you along, and—in the end—hinges 100 percent on whether you buy the twist ending or not? “Shutter Island” is not that kind of thriller. Directed by Martin Scorsese, “Shutter Island” has enough gothic atmosphere, deep emotional […]
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