Modernizing Little Orphan Annie is certainly not a bad idea as one would have a hard time releasing a movie today featuring a war profiteer who rails against organized labour and is portrayed as an idealized capitalist and not be the film’s bad guy. Adopting a dozen red-headed moppets couldn’t soften that image for today’s…
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) – Review
I don’t think you will find too many people that will dispute the fact that the book The Hobbit in no way warranted three movies let alone three overly long movies, but with Middle-earth source material drying up the studios convinced Peter Jackson to help them make as much money as possible. The parallel between MGM…
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) – Review
Are you a fan of Holiday Movies? How about Star Wars? One might think mashing those 2 things up would be magical and amazing…. They would be Wrong!!!
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) – Review
As genres go Christmas movies are sadly more miss than hits, for every Miracle on 34th Street we get a dozen films like Santa Claus Conquerors the Martian, and in 1985 the men who brought us Superman: The Movie decided to take a stab at the Christmas movie, and with Supergirl director Jeannot Szwarc at…
Exodus: Gods and Kings – Movie Review
This is not your daddy’s Ten Commandments.