Smallfoot Keeps Both Feet on the Ground

The Golden Age of Hollywood showcased the best of Warner Bros animation with the Looney Toons. In the nineties, they flourished on television with Tiny Toons and Animaniacs but the same couldn't be said for its theatrical set. Space Jam was the only film that did well critically and financially, the rest were either loved by critics but made no money at the box-office (The Iron Giant, Cat's Don't Dance), or bomb with both critics and audiences (Quest For Camelot, The King and I). Despite a lukewarm reception from critics, Osmosis Jones and Looney Toons: Back in Action were what Home on the Range was to Disney: financial failures that shut down the studio's animation division.

Better Late Than Never Vol. 2

There were more than a couple of films that came earlier this year and wasn't able to write on. Many are already available to purchase or rent. Here's the quick rundown:

The House With a Clock in its Wall Could Use Some Repairs

I am always curious to see a filmmaker experimenting outside their usual style. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The idea of Eli Roth doing a family film sounds perplexing and while The House With a Clock in its Wall isn't the best adaptation of Jon Bellair's book, I am open for him to keep on trying other work that doesn't involve his usual bloodshed.

Top 10 Highly Anticipated Fall/Winter Movies

With the summer season over what movie are you excited see this fall and winter season? Perhaps Ralph: Breaks the Internet the long-awaited sequel that seems to be this generation's Roger Rabbit. Micheal Myers back on a murder spree in Halloween, Benedict Cumberbatch as the mean one himself Mr. Grinch or the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.  In any case here are ten movie that I can't wait to watch.

The Predator Catches Its Prey

The original Predator remains as an eighties staple in terms of action and science fiction. Among Arnold's manly cast was aspiring screenwriter Shane Black, who played the nerdy character Hawkins. Having moved to directing with Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys under his belt, Black returns to the franchise that got him on the map in the fourth Predator movie (sixth if you count AVP and Requiem) simply titled The Predator.

John Cho is on the Search in Searching

When your movie's entire runtime is on a computer screen, that can either succeed or backfire. The 2014 teen slasher flick Unfriended gave it a shot and while the technique was praised, the rest of the content, not so much. Its sequel Dark Web was no better. What promised to be a new form of film making was starting to look like a cheap horror gimmick à la Blair Witch. Who should come along and give it new life but a couple of newbie filmmakers, a competent script, and Hikari Sulu to give us a great mystery thriller.

The Hunt is on in Operation Finale

In Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Ben Kingsley played Holocaust survivor Itzhak Stern. Now he shifts gears in Chris Weitz's Operation Finale as Nazi official Adolf Eichmann; credited as the architect of the Final Solution who evaded capture after World War II. This is the the story of the people who went out to find him.....