Disney Scares Itself Silly With ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’

Disney has always had a love affair with the macabre. You need to only look at several plots and subplots of the classic movies. The boys turning into donkeys in Pinocchio probably has terrified people over the decades. In Sleeping Beauty, Malificient turns into a dragon as she battles Prince Phillip. Then, you have theContinue reading “Disney Scares Itself Silly With ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’”

Anna Nicole Smith Doc Exploits While Accusing Others Of Exploitation

The Netflix documentary Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me is two hours of stuff we probably already knew. Smith has been deceased for over 16 years, which was longer than she was active. So, why do something like this now? Filmmaker Ursula Macfarlane assembles some people who were close to Smith as talking-head interviewees.Continue reading “Anna Nicole Smith Doc Exploits While Accusing Others Of Exploitation”

What Part Of Leave Britney Alone Don’t These Parasites Freaking Understand

I haven’t watched the TMZ documentary about Britney Spears. There’s no need to. The bar has been set so low over the years by TMZ that an ant can’t even limbo underneath it. Titled Britney Spears: The Price of Freedom apparently alleges that Spears doesn’t get much sleep and has a rocky marriage with herContinue reading “What Part Of Leave Britney Alone Don’t These Parasites Freaking Understand”

‘Seinfeld’ Finale Still Disappoints 25 Years Later: What Is The Deal?

If you were to look up “disappointment” in a dictionary, you’d find a picture of the Seinfeld series finale next to the definition. The final episode aired 25 years ago May 14, 1998. A reported 76 million houses tuned in and there’s probably more who watched it. There was no DVR. People were at homeContinue reading “‘Seinfeld’ Finale Still Disappoints 25 Years Later: What Is The Deal?”

‘Inside’ Keeps Willem Dafoe In Mostly One-Man Show That Overstays Its Time

For the most part, I think many actors are obsessed with just doing normal things in movies anybody will do with no dialogue. For True Confessions, Robert DeNiro wanted a scene of him just doing stuff without any dialogue. In All is Lost, Robert Redford’s dialogue could’ve been written on a index card. During theContinue reading “‘Inside’ Keeps Willem Dafoe In Mostly One-Man Show That Overstays Its Time”

‘Moonage Daydream’ Tells Bowie’s Life In Lyrical Stream Of Consciousness

Going into Moonage Daydream, the musical documentary directed by Brett Morgan, you should know ahead of time, it isn’t your typical documentary. You won’t see many talking heads telling you about how David Bowie did this or he did that. This is the documentary that Summer of Soul should’ve been. Morgan lets musical scenes playContinue reading “‘Moonage Daydream’ Tells Bowie’s Life In Lyrical Stream Of Consciousness”

J. Lo Plays One Bad ‘Mother’ (Shut Your Mouth.) I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout J. Lo. (Then, We Can Dig It?)

Jennifer Lopez has had one of those careers where people love to hate her and hate to love her. From her start as one of the Fly Girls on In Living Color to her groundbreaking role as doomed Selena Quintanilla Perez in Selena, it seemed that Lopez later nicknamed just J. Lo wouild be theContinue reading “J. Lo Plays One Bad ‘Mother’ (Shut Your Mouth.) I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout J. Lo. (Then, We Can Dig It?)”

‘Clock’ Updates ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ For The Millennial Audiences

The beginning of Clock plays almost like a parody as Ella Patel (Dianna Agron) is at a baby shower for a friend when all the other women are going on and on about motherhood and having babies. She hides her dislike, eye rolls and frustration from them before she is asked the one question mostContinue reading “‘Clock’ Updates ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ For The Millennial Audiences”