DVD Review: Tron: Legacy

When ‘Tron’ came out from Walt Disney Productions in 1982, must have been quite a sight. Mixing computer generated effects with live action in the scale of the first ‘Tron’ was a major step forward in the types of effects that are quite common place these days. Does ‘Tron: Legacy’ live up to this standard? …

Review: Tron: Legacy

When ‘Tron’ came out from Walt Disney Productions in 1982, must have been quite a sight. Mixing computer generated effects with live action in the scale of the first ‘Tron’ was a major step forward in the types of effects that are quite common place these days. Does ‘Tron: Legacy’ live up to this standard? …

Review: Clash of the Titans

It’s sometimes hard to be a fan of big movies.  In many cases, you end up being an apologist for popcorn flicks when you say things like, “It’s ok to turn your brain off and enjoy the flashing pictures for 2 hours.”  You not only sound like an idiot who’s cool with letting the light …

Vatche Reviews: Avatar

Having been forced to wait over a week to see it, it’s been hard for me not to be influenced by what other people had to say about it. Universally, the consensus from my peers has been, see this movie.Now.Up until then, I’d avoided every single piece of promotional information, review, and no opinion greater …

‘Dawn of the Dead’ in 3D

When there’s no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the Earth…in 3D! Now joining Tim Burton’s ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ as a standard film converted to 3D for theatrical release will be George Romero’s zombie classic, ‘Dawn of the Dead.’ This seems like somewhat of an odd choice to convert to 3D as, …

Look Out! That Pirahna is 3-D!

Joe Dante’s 1978 classic film about flesh-eating piranhas is set to get the remake treatment, this time in 3-D. The Weinstein Company has signed Alexandre Aja (‘The Hills Have Eyes’) to direct the film, as well as co-write the script. Piranha 3-D will be one of the few R-rated 3-D films currently in development. Personally, …

Spielberg Goes Anime

It was announced a few months ago that Leonardo DiCaprio would be adapting one of the most famous pieces of anime film, ‘Akira.’ Now, one of Hollywood’s biggest players, Steven Spielberg, is following suit, having snatched up the rights to another Japanese anime classic. Dreamworks will be adapting ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ with Jamie Moss …