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Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph
For most of my life, almost as long as I’ve loved movies, I’ve been a huge fan of video games. Because of that, it’s been disappointing that films based on games have had such a dismal history, with many of them being pretty much unwatchable. But on the other hand, there have been some great films about video games – Tron (1982) and WarGames (1983) spring immediately to mind. Wel...[Read More]
Movie Review: Frankenweenie
There may seem to be glut of scary-themed animated movies this fall – we’ve already had ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania – and now we have Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s comparably modest addition to a genre he had a significant hand in popularizing (with a hat tip to Rankin-Bass, et al). Frankenweenie’s first life was as a thirty-minute live-action short in 1984 by the morbid auteur during his slav...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Get in the Game with Wreck-It Ralph
With the cooler fall weather comes the beginning of the long wait for the big year-end movies. But in the meantime, there are still plenty of cool trailers being released. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ looks at Disney’s upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph. Premise: Wreck-It Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) is the villain of the arcade video game Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the gam...[Read More]