This website is under transition to its new home – I have partnered with PixelatedGeek.com, a hub site for all things fun and nerdy! Check out my review of The Switch here http://pixelatedgeek.com/2010/08/the-switch/ You can keep this site bookmarked as it will soon mirror to their site! I am very excited about this new partnership [...]

It seems impossible that a movie with a 3 at the end would be able to boast any commentary better than “not too bad, considering.” But Toy Story 3 may well be the least unnecessary sequel ever. Toy Story 2 left Andy and his toys in the playroom in 1999; now, 11 years later, Andy [...]

The one unknown entry in the Oscar category of Best Animated Feature, The Secret of Kells is a twinkling gem of a movie that should be overlooked no longer. The marketing artwork makes it look no more substantial than that egregious Snow White sequel Happily Ever After, but this movie is much, much better than [...]

Cinerina’s Best 50 Of The Decade: The 2000′s Last turn of the decade I had only been writing for three years, so I didn’t think I could really support a Decade list.  Heavens to betsy how the years do add up!  I will definitely forget your favorite film, or some ridiculously obvious classic that I [...]

Cinerina’s 2009 Extremes Some truly terrible movies came out in 2009, so terrible that I refused to see them. This may be the first year in recent memory where I have not rated a film “Avoid At All Costs.” This could mean that I just was less willing to plunk down my hard-earned money for [...]

James Cameron has always been an innovator. Whether it’s defining the gold standard for a female action lead or designing cameras and processes to make the exact film he is envisioning, Cameron is a technical wizard. Match his attention to detail and his creativity with the peerless effects and design team at Weta, and you [...]

The Road doesn’t answer many questions, not what happened, not who these people are, or where they are. It’s enough to know that Before is irretrievably gone forever, there is only Now. Now is after a cataclysmic event (my companion posited an extinction event comet strike) that has wiped out most of humanity, all animals, [...]

Oh Disney! You invented feature-length animation, revolutionized the children’s film industry, and infected little girls the world over with princess worship. Then Pixar swooped in and taught you how to make stories fancy looking (you skipped the class where they reminded you to also have stories in CG movies), and then you got distracted with [...]

Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Rental with Snacks Roald Dahl writes books of fantasy grounded in realism, and the Fantastic Mr. Fox is no exception. Wes Anderson is a director with a deadpan sense of absurdism and dysfunction. From them come this stop-motion animated film, a story of civilized wild animals trying to get their piece [...]

I am beholden to various entities to keep my review content PG. But in the interests of journalistic integrity, I feel I should report that in my cramped notes I dropped, for my own train of thought record keeping, the F-bomb three times. Holy, Amazing, and just plain F-bomb. The usual tenor of my notes [...]