“Monsters University” makes complete sense as a prequel—the first time, by the way, that Pixar has attempted such a thing. That’s because in the original “Monsters, Inc.” the two main monsters are
My father taught American history and geography for 35 years to middle school students. We were raised to know, among other things, that history was, is and will always be extremely important. This sa
“Shrek the Musical” opened at the Broadway Theatre on November 8, 2008 and closed a little more than a year later, after 441 performances. For Broadway, that’s a short to medium run, but it wasn’t
I had heard that the animated Disney Channel series “Gravity Falls” had been well received by audiences and critics, so it surprised me when my teen boy and ‘tween girl refused to watch it with me
The action-comedy buddy-cop movie as we know it really surfaced in the ‘80s. Though coerced-con Eddie Murphy and undercover cop Nick Nolte weren’t on equal footing, they hit all the right notes in a 1
Dennis Hopper's first leading role isn't exactly an early template for his intermittently volcanic career. As Johnny Drake, Hopper plays a soft-spoken sailor who is so shy and tentative he clutches hi
Mention Dean Martin and the average person thinks of his long partnership with Jerry Lewis (1946-1956), or his 1960s “Rat Pack” association with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter
After the box-office failure of “The Magnificent Ambersons” and a bitter fight with RKO over the allegedly out-of-control production of “It's All True,” Orson Welles's wunderkind status was in jeopard
“Hey Dad, can we have a catch?” “Hey Dad, can we work on my science project?’ “Hey Dad, can we star in a $130 million summer tent pole science-fiction feature film?” Some children’s lives really are
The late Irwin Allen was famous for two things: disaster movies like “The Poseidon Adventure,” and campy melodramas that were so bad they would have been complete disasters had they not been so uninte
It’s tough being a successful, award-winning writer, with a huge house on the beach. In the comedy/drama “Stuck In Love,” Greg Kinnear plays William Borgens, a novelist who finds himself in a bit of
Dreamworks Animation has really been pushing Pixar lately, and they’ve done it again with**“The Croods.”** There are eye-popping allusions to “Avatar” and jaw-dropping sequences of cataclysmic clouds