As much as I love Disney’s The Little Mermaid, it’s the fish film’s follow-up that holds a real special place in my heart. I first saw Beauty and the Beast in college with my girlfriend (a.k.a. My future wife). We both absolutely loved it and I’d even go around doing my best Beast impression as I’d burst out into song and start belting this infamous line: “She glanced this way. I thought I saw. But …
I read a number of Roald Dahl’s books when I was a kid. Sure, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s still my favorite, though I remember loving the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Of course there’s also James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox and oodles of short stories. I never did read The BFG though. In fact, up until this year, I had never even heard of it. After this weekend, just about …
Has it really been 15 years since we all fell in love with a rude, stinky swamp-living green ogre named Shrek? Time sure flies when you’re not saving princesses and fighting dragons! Well, DreamWorks can’t let such a special anniversary go by without a celebration, so set your clocks for June 7, because that’s when the Blu-ray & DVD versions of the Shrek Anniversary Edition hit store shelves! You can relive the magic of Shrek, …
Everybody’s got a “Happy Place.” You know, that island in your mind you go to when you just need to get away and relax from the stress of life? Yeah, mine isn’t so much a place as it is a decade. I may have been born in the ’70s, but I grew up in the ’80s. I am most definitely a child of the Bubble Gum Decade. It’s crazy to me that it has been …
What’s so civil about war anyway? Absolutely nothing if you ask Guns n’ Roses or two former avenging friends Iron Man and Captain America. Tony Stark and Steve Rogers are currently duking it out on the big screen in the mega-fantastic film Captain America: Civil War. (Super short spoiler-free review: It’s AWESOME!!!!) Why do two teammates and friends start going mano y mano? Well, something bad happens and the US government starts to realize that …
