This is the third of a trio of comedies co-written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, with Wright directing and Pegg starring along with Nick Frost. In Shaun of the Dead (2004), a pretty funny and original romantic comedy with … Continue reading
Connelly is an excellent mystery author whose novels are highly readable if not necessarily memorable. In this one his main series character, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, who’s now nearing retirement and working on the department’s cold case squad, investigates a … Continue reading
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who have co-starred in a series of comedies, are back in a movie they also co-wrote. This time they play a couple of English sci-fi (and I do mean sci-fi) enthusiasts who come to the … Continue reading
Fry is a well-known British actor, writer, and public intellectual as well as the former comedy partner of Hugh Laurie. This is his first novel, a very weird and occasionally very fun cross between a coming of age tale and … Continue reading
Seth MacFarlane — best known for creating the animated series Family Guy and providing the voices of (among others) Peter (the father), Stewie (the baby), Brian (the dog), and Quagmire (the pervert) — directed, co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in this … Continue reading
A number of films and plays have lately looked at classic fairytales from the viewpoint of a villain, including this live-action retelling of the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, released 55 years to the day after the animated original. It’s … Continue reading
As narrator Patrick Stewarts explains, back in the 1980s a lonely little boy wished for his teddy bear to come to life, and to everyone’s amazement it did. The talking bear became an instant celebrity, but after a while he … Continue reading
As I mentioned a couple of days ago (link), a recent segment on the Fox New Channel show Fox & Friends attacked the hit film Frozen for supposedly being unkind to men (despite the fact that it’s really not). Host … Continue reading
This hugely popular computer-animated feature from Disney is said to have been inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” (and in many countries was released under a version of that title), but the plot and characters are in fact … Continue reading
This is just strange. Earlier this week on the Fox News program Fox & Friends, host Steve Doocy and guest Penny Young Nance of Concerned Women for America suggested that Disney’s 2013 hit Frozen was somehow anti-male, apparently because there … Continue reading