Anton Yelchin

In my more recent weekly box office columns, I pointed out a few times that British-based Aardman Animation has yet to find much success across the Atlantic except in very rare cases. Its initial full-length feature Chicken Run and the movie adaptation of their greatest claim to fame, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit remain the most popular and financially successful of the compan...[Read More]

If you make a feature-length movie in one month and decide not to give your actors a script, you can expect to see some flaws in the final product. The good news for Like Crazy, winner of this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the latest film from 28-year-old writer/director Drake Doremus, is that the movie’s positives far outweigh its negatives. What begins as a stereotypi...[Read More]

As the remake becomes more and more popular these days, you begin to hear people wonder why they are made in the first place when the original was fine to begin with. This tends to be a more prevalent discussion when people aren’t watching John Carpenter’s The Thing or the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, both of which have become praiseworthy adaptations made from movies that were already considered sup...[Read More]