‘Ponyo’ is the latest animated creation from the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, whom I consider one of the best directors of our time, having done ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ and recent Oscar-winner ‘Spirited Away’. He captivates the audience not with one-liners or explosions but with images, with his incredible hand-drawn animation.
‘Ponyo’ is a variation of ‘The Little Mermaid’: [...]
‘(500) Days of Summer’ is a huge breath of fresh air in a genre more cliche-ridden than any other: the romantic comedy. It’s still a basic boy-meets-girl story but it’s in a class all its own. ‘500 Days of Summer’ is the story of Tom, who is looking for love and Summer, who doesn’t believe [...]
My, my, my. Before my lifetime, films were either based on novels or were original stories by screenwriters. Now it seems all films are based on toys, video-games, are sequels, or remakes of a Japanese horror movie. ‘G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra’ is much, much better than a certain other summer blockbuster based on a [...]
Writer/director John Hughes has died at 59 years old.
In the 1980s, his films were extremely popular, and he was seen as a voice of that generation of teenagers. ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’, ‘Uncle Buck’, and ‘Breakfast Club’ are particular favorites of mine, although some films he wrote were simply awful. (’Home Alone 3′, ‘Drillbit Taylor’) [...]
Young movie critic
brings laughs, insight
I wanted to express my sincere appreciation for the hilarious movie reviews featured in your newspaper this summer.
It is even more interesting to read them because they are the intelligent insights of a very wry, witty and outspoken 12-year-old film critic, Ryan Michaels.
His latest review on the new “Transformers” movie was [...]
‘G-Force’ may go down in history as the film that made me realize that I need to bring a notebook to the movies, be it to jot down observations, help me remember certain parts, note certain actors…Or to list all the truly horrific lines of dialogue that a film can possibly have. ‘G-Force’ is about [...]