THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Cars 2” – Running On Fumes
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
RIO: Cartoon Carnival
> Worth A Ticket; Birds Fly High Enough for Kids, and Adults Too. Click For More Reviews: THOR PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Animation has, over the past decade, passed beyond ...
Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Dumb Money” & “North Star”
THE BOY AND THE HERON (GKids – Dec. 8): Hiyao Miyazaki, a legend of animation (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke), had announced his retirement as a feature film director a decade ago, upon the...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED – Worth A Ticket – A Circus Indeed There’s a certain luxury in being DreamWorks Animation. Pixar gets the awards and the acclaim, but it’s also held ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Ice Age: Continental Drift”
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT – Watch It At Home – The CSI of Family Franchises Does Its Thing You know what the fabulous Peter Dinklage never gets to do on Game of Thrones? Sing! That’s remed...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Monsters University”
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY: Watch It At Home – No Dean’s List For Pixar’s Latest There’s a wonderfully charming, imaginative Pixar movie opening on Friday, one that will restore your faith in the studi...
“KUNG FU PANDA 2” – Black Belt
> Worth A Ticket; This franchise has been working out. Over the past few years, DreamWorks Animation has been emerging a bit from its place as the jokey, insubstantial sidekick to Pixar’s superhero studio. How To Tr...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”
THE SURVIVOR (no distrib): So many films and television productions have tackled the subject of the Holocaust over the decades that it takes real effort to break through with a story that feels fresh. Barry Levinson&...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Brave”
BRAVE: Watch It At Home – Pixar Out Of Its Element A spunky young animated princess is suffocated by her domineering mom, and her efforts to break free lead to all sorts of unintended chaos… Wasn’t Ta...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rise of the Guardians”
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS: Worth a Ticket – “The Avengers” as Holiday Fantasy RISE OF THE GUARDIANS doesn’t entirely look or feel like what we’ve come to expect from DreamWorks Animation. Un...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good House,” “Where Is Anne Frank” & “Official Competition”
THE GOOD HOUSE (DreamWorks – TBD): By my count, it’s been two full decades since Sigourney Weaver was at the center of a feature film (that was Heartbreakers, where she shared the spotlight with Jennifer Lo...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Despicable Me 2”
DESPICABLE ME 2: Watch It At Home – Good-Hearted If Unexciting Sequel For the Kids Despicable Me was far from the most ambitious or striking animated feature of the last few years, but it was definitely cute. I...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Croods”
THE CROODS: Watch It At Home – Prehistoric Sitcom’s Bland Storyline Doesn’t Evolve Hollywood already has a thriving CG-animated prehistoric franchise in the Ice Age series, but DreamWorks Animation ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Turbo”
TURBO: Watch It At Home – Nothing Supercharged About the Script If the new DreamWorks Animation release TURBO proves anything, it’s that even for the competition, there’s a special mystique about the ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”
HORSE GIRL (Netflix – February 7): Every one of the four films Jeff Baena has directed had its premiere at Sundance, with Horse Girl following Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours. It’s an impressi...