INSIDE OUT — CANNES 2015
Children’s book authors will be eating their hearts out over co-writer/director Peter Docter’s brilliantly devised story about the different emotions…
Children
PARANORMAN
Fans of Aardman’s handcrafted style of animation will find much to enjoy in this wonderfully stylized stop-motion comedy-horror-thriller about a…
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED
It took three directors to make the third installment in the “Madagascar” franchise, yet the compound collaboration has resulted in…
THE LION KING 3D
If only it weren’t for the inflated ticket price that comes with it, “The Lion King 3D” would represent a…
NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS
A vast improvement over the 2005 franchise introduction of co-writer/actress Emma Thompson’s Mary-Poppinsish household savior, “Nanny McPhee Returns” finds modern-day…
INKHEART
Based on Cornelia Funke’s 2003 fantasy kid’s novel, director Ian Softley (“The Wings of the Dove”) makes a half-hearted adaptation…
INKHEART
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Based on Cornelia Funke’s 2003 fantasy kid’s novel, director Ian Softley (“The Wings of the Dove”) makes a half-hearted adaptation…
THE LONGSHOTS
“The Longshots” is a movie with no regard for details. It’s an idea for a movie that was passed off…
Nanny McPhee
Emma Thompson ("Sense And Sensibility") plays a magic-working nanny in a script she wrote based loosely on Christianna Brand’s ‘60s…
MONSTER HOUSE
“Monster House” may well be the first mainstream animated exploitation movie. Debut director Gil Kenan upgrades the creepy animation style…
HARRY AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
With the inane promise of making the “darkest” Harry Potter movie yet, Mike Newell (producer on “The Constant Gardener”) takes…
ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE
“Zathura: A Space Adventure” is a mediocre children’s movie based on the reworking of an already faulty formula (see “Jumanji”)…
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Tim Burton lovingly adapts Roald Dahl’s famous children’s novel to the big screen with visual splendor and a hyper sense…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
