In the months leading up to its release, FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, based on the long-running video game series, was hailed as a wonder of technological achievement. Reports surfaced that dozens of programmers spent more than a year animating just the lead character’s hair, while other sources claimed that the programmers took about three weeks to do the hair, and spent the rest of the year trying to look busy when anyone was looking.
Don’t believe the hype but believe the tripe that’s being served with the trailers for DOWN IN THE VALLEY, STRANGERS WITH CANDY and the passable THE DESCENT inside the one and only Trailer Park with Christopher Stipp.
In the arena of popular culture, May is always one of the saddest months. Why? Well, because invariably, some long-running and beloved television show comes to the end of their line during season-ending sweeps…
It’s much easier to justify writing about Tarzan in this column, than Spamalot. Though the latter was based on a movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), which had animated sequences, the Tarzan stage musical is based on Disney’s entirely animated 1999 film, which in turn was inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel Tarzan of the Apes. Even apart from the animated film (and Disney’s TV series and direct-to-video Tarzan II, both animated, that followed), Tarzan has a long history in cartoon art
Pabst Blue Ribbon has got nothin’ on the stylings of MEET THE ROBINSONS, THE OMEN and THE suprisingly wonderful LAKE HOUSE at the Trailer Park with Chris Stipp.
Get loose inside the Trailer Park with Christopher Stipp as he checks out LIVE FREE OR DIE, THREE TIMES, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE.
[adult swim]’s Dana Snyder and Ken Plume’s weekly chat podcast returns with a mailbag special, wherein they endeavor to answer the stacks of queries in typically quarrelsome fashion. Who lives? Who dies? Who knows?
It’s horror movie time again at the Late Show. In fact, I’ve gotten so many fright films in the mail lately that I’ll have to devote two columns to them!
First, check out the trailer inside the Trailer Park for TRUST THE MAN; one of the best marketing tools for a rom/com, buddy picture melds this year. Then, peep what Christopher Stipp has to say about KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS, A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT.
Where in the world have Dana & Ken been for the last month? Are you jonesin’ for a new Ken P.-D. Snydecast? You must have been considering all of the “Are you dead?” mail. Well, would you believe that our two hosts found themselves in Tijuana? With cash? And a tape recorder? You’d better believe it…
Christopher Stipp chats it up once more with Sam Jaeger from LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN and CATCH AND RELEASE before taking a look back at his talk with Natalie Portman and Joel Silver of V FOR VENDETTA.
The Trailer Park is back again with some words about the Phoenix International Film Festival while lamenting on LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO, AWESOME; I FUCKIN’ SHOT THAT, ALPHA DOG and BASIC INSTINCT 2.
Don’t believe the hype but believe the tripe that’s being served with the trailers for DOWN IN THE VALLEY, STRANGERS WITH CANDY and the passable THE DESCENT inside the one and only Trailer Park with Christopher Stipp.
Scooters, scooters, more scooters, and a peek at a Dr. Acula scene that didn’t make it to the final cut…
In the arena of popular culture, May is always one of the saddest months. Why? Well, because invariably, some long-running and beloved television show comes to the end of their line during season-ending sweeps…
[adult swim]’s Dana Snyder and Ken Plume’s weekly chat podcast returns with a mailbag special, wherein they endeavor to answer the stacks of queries in typically quarrelsome fashion. Who lives? Who dies? Who knows?
It’s horror movie time again at the Late Show. In fact, I’ve gotten so many fright films in the mail lately that I’ll have to devote two columns to them!