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Movie Review: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloweentown’s pumpkin king Jack Skellington does not understand or appreciate Christmas. Jack stumbles upon Christmas Town and is totally taken with the idea of Christmas. Jack is convinced he can do Christmas better than Santa and takes on the daunting challenge of running Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas is an original animated Christmas tale from [...]

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Movie Review: Rango

Rango is the story of a chameleon who is on a car trip with his owners when fate lands him on his own stranded in the desert. Rango has a wild imagination, so what better place for him to end up than in the Wild West? Rango walks into the town of Dirt where they [...]

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Movie Review: Alice In Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland is the film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s well known story. This time Alice is older and making life decisions, many of which she’d like to escape at the moment, including a marriage proposal. Alice succeeds in escaping her problems by falling down the rabbit hole into an other worldly adventure. How magical [...]

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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

This stop motion animation movie is a fun one with an interesting story and clever characters. Director Wes Anderson wrote the screenplay from the Roald Dahl novel of the same name. The story follows Mr. and Mrs. Fox, who live in a burrow. Mr. Fox makes his living stealing chickens and after being caught, is [...]

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Movie Review: Enchanted

“Enchanted” is an enchanting movie with Disney at its best combining music, live action and animation. Gisele is transported to modern day New York by the evil Queen Narissa to search for her prince. The story follows the fairy tale Gisele facing reality in modern times and is ably narrated by Julie Andrews. This is [...]

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Movie Review: WALL-E

“WALL-E” is a charming animated movie centered on the last robot on earth after earth is destroyed by an environmental crisis. This Pixar film follows the travels of WALL-E, a waste disposal robot who works all the while dreaming of romance in his life. WALL-E seeks out visitors from another planet when they arrive on [...]

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Movie Review: The Simpsons Movie

If you are fans of the Simpson cartoon series you know what to expect. As usual the Simpsons are fun, silly and comment on society. Oh and those great characters too. “The Simpsons Movie” is everything you’d expect onscreen and maybe a little more. Never a dull moment, the animation is great and the voice [...]

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Movie Review: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” earned three well deserved Oscars for this animation/live action film, becoming an instant classic. The story revolves around Roger (Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit), his wife (Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit), a murder and a detective who hates toons. The movie has the feel of the Warner Bros tongue-in-cheek adult humor [...]

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