Valkyrie
Bryan Singer’s film Valkyrie has been getting a bit hammered in the press lately. (Actually, I feel like I’ve been reading bad things about this movie for over a year, mostly in connection to the multiple shifts in its release date, which usually indicates a studio’
Wall-E & Star Trek: Voyager
Are you perplexed by today’s cartoon? Pop Wall-E into your DVD player and skip ahead to 34:24 (that’s the middle of chapter 12, just after Wall-E gets launched into space). Then follow this link to see screenshots of the opening credits sequence for Star Trek: Voy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This is the film I’ve been waiting for. Steph and I took advantage of our vacation to see a LOT of the big Oscar-hopeful films that have been released in the past few weeks. As usual, there has been a crazy end-of-the-year rush of “serious” films, many of which won
Motion Pictures in 2009!
Welcome back to Motion Pictures! I am happy to announce our new schedule of updates for 2009. New cartoons will continue to be posted Monday-Thursday, every week. As for the blogs, instead of 2008’s whenever-I-feel-like-it schedule, I have decided to solidify a schedule of n
See you in 2009!
MotionPicturesComics will be dark next week, as I head to Chicago to enjoy some New Years festivities. We’ll be back on Monday, January 5th, with new cartoons and lots more fun stuff. I have a lot of movies and DVDs that I’ve seen recently that I can’t wait to t
Run Lola Run
I first saw this terrific German film a number of years ago, and for quite some time now I’d been eager to check it out again. The copious amount of snow that fell this past weekend was as good a reason as any! Released in 1999, the story of Run Lola Run is pretty simple: [&he
Once Upon a Time in America
I love trolling the discount bins at Newbury Comics and other stores that sell DVDs, because you never know what sort of fun treasures you’ll find for very little money. Case in point: I recently came across Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America. I had heard of th
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
My father recommended this film to me, years ago, and from the first time I watched it I knew right away that he was right on the money in declaring it to be a masterful work. Made in 1974, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three stars Walter Matthau as New York City transit chief Lt. [&h
On the Comics Shelf
There is a lot of terrific comic book work being published these days. Last month I spent a lengthy post discussing Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. Allow me, today, to bring a few other high-quality series to your attention: All Star Superman, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely – The idea
Howard/Nixon
I love movies, and I am fascinated by politics, so it’s no surprise that I am always up for a good political movie. And make no mistake, Ron Howard’s latest film, Frost/Nixon, is a very good political movie. Adapted by Peter Morgan from his own play (which attracted noti