There have been so many remakes, so many unnecessary TV to theater remakes. So let’s just say I didn’t go to the screening of the new 21 Jump Street with very high hopes. For those who do not remember, or are too young to remember, the television show was an eighties police...

Red Tails is an old-school action drama war movie with a pretty ambitious payload; twenty-three years in the making, big action dogfights, and an all African-American cast, screenwriters, director and film scorer. A long-cherished project by Star Wars maven George Lucas (co-written by...

The screening of Man on a Ledge last night got me thinking, this is a film that Alfred Hitchcock would really have enjoyed making. After all, the movie features so many Hitchcockian elements, such as an innocent man accused of a crime, dubious characters who operate in the gray area of...

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a movie trailer that I just can’t stop telling people about, so it is about time I enlighten my fellow readers. Above is the trailer for Chronicle, a new superpower movie that is coming to theaters this February. Shot in the found footage format, three high...

Christmas movies usually are the bane of many movie goers pocketbook, so much promise, yet so little in return. Luckily, the folks who brought us Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away have inserted delightful blast of fresh air to the conventional Christmas genre with Arthur...

I am pretty excited (yet slightly weary) for the upcoming Adventures of Tintin movie, as I think a lot of people are. Yet, I think I may have stumbled upon the most excited person, James Curran. Curran has created this amazing, unofficial title sequence that utilizes themes and images from...

A documentary showcasing Packers fans is set to be screened tonight at the Downer Theater on Milwaukee’s east side. The Packers’ Fan Experience is a documentary following 20 fans over the 2010 Super Bowl run that ended with a world championship. This screening is a little bit...

Last night I attended the screening of Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin’s Moneyball. The movie takes a deep look at how Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane helped reinvent baseball based on statistics rather than near-superstitious thinking. While the movie has its lags and...

Ji Lee just launched a new project called “Famous Objects from Classic Movies” and is a fun online game variation of hangman for movie lovers. You are presented with a silhouetted object and must guess the title of the movie it comes from. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s...