Shrek, Hellboy, and rediscovering Nemo…

This week, like a crazed mutant toddler hopped up on kiddie Quaaludes, consisting of a 64 oz. big gulp of Hi-C Fruit Punch and a couple packets of Pop Rocks, washed down with a box of Nerds, I’m taking the room down a notch to bring you all some out of the way fare. I have some new stuff from Spike Lee, a movie in the vein of the Coen’s (when they were good), a new flick from Doc Ock, an indie about Mexicans that’s actually supposed to be funny, and a gritty crime flick starring The Punisher.

Peter takes a look at Chris Claremont’s X-Men reboot…

I don’t know what kind of sticky cheeba was being smoked in or around the Disney negotiating table when it was time to talk business with the Pixar people but I’m feeling that somehow, someone might have actually thought, “Oh yeah. We can do this alone.”

Peter turns his eye towards Peter David’s Soulsearchers & Co…

Without messing around, and with the exception of paraphrasing some Ice Cube above, the trailer that is running for THE BOURNE SUPREMACY has some great weight behind it. Without a doubt there is car chasing much gritter-looking than anything in THE ITALIAN JOB and a little more explosive action than in RONIN. While the latter mixed foreign cities with 4-wheel action with great effectiveness, I do hope BOURNE replicates its sleeper status as a great, well-thought-out action pic. If you do yourself a favor this week and have the chance to look at least one of these movies, make it this one. Trailers can only tell so much, and can hide a lot, but the advertising for this flick sells a pile of crap well if that’s the case.

X-Men, Spider-Man, and Jess Nevins’ League…

This week’s No-Prize goes to reader Donovan K. who illustrated, not to severely pun here, the difference between traditional animation, computer animation and where the new film, APPLESEED, reviewed last week, falls in-between…