Movie Review: Batman Begins Calling Batman and Robin a disaster would be an understatement. Not only was it panned by critics and the audiences alike but it performed so poorly that Warner Brothers wouldn’t release another Batman film for 8 years. The franchise seemed dead and buried with all future projects postponed indefinitely. Enter Christopher […]
Movie Review: Batman and Robin – 1997 After the great financial success of Batman Forever, it was very predictable that there would be another Batman film. The audiences responded favorably to the brighter mood and the reliance on action as opposed to the psychological elements of its predecessors. So for the next film it wasn’t […]
Batman Forever – 1995 For the next film in the Batman series, Warner Brothers made the decision to make some radical changes to the franchise. No more of the dark brooding atmosphere, Tim Burton would no longer be directing the series, Michael Keaton wouldn’t return at the caped crusader, and heck even Danny Elfman would […]
A sequel is a tricky thing. What do you do? Make a carbon copy of the original or be even more ambitious. For the sequel to the mega hit Batman, Warner Brothers had no choice but to do the later (unless they were willing to give Jack Nicholson over $100 million). So what did they […]
Batman – 1989 Back in the 1980’s if you ask anyone who their favorite superhero was it would have to be Superman. Thanks to the iconic Christopher Reeve, the hijinks of Gene Hackman, and John Williams soaring musical score, the man of steel was the symbol of heroism and morals due to the popularity of […]
The Power Station Original release date: March 25, 1985 Robert Palmer – Andy Taylor – John Taylor – Tony Thompson One of my favorite LP’s when I was a kid was the debut self titled album by the band The Power Station. That summer my speakers were filled with the sounds of so many great […]
The Incredibles – 2004 In 2004, Pixar made a radical decision in their selection for the next director of their upcoming film. Up to this point every film was done by an established group of writers from Pixar which included John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Pete Docter. However, for this film, Pixar rolled the dice […]
Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, NJ. Just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. I was born more than 60 years later, in Michigan. Born in a suburb of Detroit City, which is just across the Detroit River from Windsor, Canada. In other words, I have very little in common with […]
After the massive success of it’s first four animated features, Pixar was on it’s way to supplanting Disney Studios as the king of family entertainment. Thanks to it’s revolutionary computer generated animation, memorable characters, and heart warming, emotional screenplays, the young upstart studio became the standard for the industry. However, for it’s next project, Pixar […]
The one single common thread that ties the first three Pixar films together is its heart and emotional pull. Due to the well constructed screenplays, great musical scores, and its innovative animation, audiences and even a critic or two had developed attachments to an assortment of characters ranging from toys to insects. However this great […]