So the writing is a process — you never stop writing, you’re writing all the way up until the film is in the theater pretty much. Just trying to make it a little bit better and animation allows you that longer gestation period so that you can keep doing that. So really animated films should be as close to perfect as you can make it because you’ve got that long period of time. …

What is it about ants, insects, and just the whole “bug” field, that is so much fun to smash and destroy when you are a kid. Is it that the fact that you have no authority over anything? From what I’ve learned these past few years in history, is that the heirarchy of our world is based on either wealth or power. Even at such a young age, that stands, and you don’t even realize it…

I remember seeing the film Signs in theaters with my mother and aunt while vacationing in Massachusetts as I am now. It was indeed one of the scariest films I had ever seen and staying in a small house in a small quiet town didn’t help me recover from some of the terrifying imagery. My family and I stayed in the up-stairs, which was basically an attic that had cleaned up very well. I had to sleep on the air mattress considering both the bed and futon were occupied by my parents and my siblings…

Producer Robert Zemeckis of this film (Monster House), directed Polar and used dubbed performance capture to trace the movements of the face and place them on the characters in the film. The same technique is used in Monster House and looks just as good, and the thankfully the eyes have been fixed to make them look “of the living”…

Kevin Smith’s screenplay is almost as rich as was the original Clerks, but not many expected to be just as rich. Obviously Smith couldn’t just create another “I’m not even supposed to be here today” situation, but actually had to give the characters something to do and introduce more characters to laugh at, especially since the original, Kevin Smith has made quite a few films, and Jay and Silent Bob are the only characters he’s kept up with…

I haven’t seen any well made movie staring a superheroin, and to be truthful I still haven’t. What’s interesting about My Super Ex-Girlfriend is that it is in a way, Superman with the roles reversed. The role of the damsel in distress is now a gentlemen, and the superman character is replaced with a tacky G-Girl who is an insecure control freak…

Does any one remember that movie What About Bob? You know, the one with Bill Murray as the insecure hypochondriac and Richard Dreyfuss as the uptight Psychologist? I guess there is just something about annoying houseguests and not so welcoming hosts that just make Hollywood executives wet themselves. I will admit, I loved What About Bob?, it had quirky characters and through a pretty wild adventure…

Roger Ebert has been through many of these experiences and knows the true joys that are aquireable from just sitting in a cold dark room with over 100 seats. He graciously offers his opinion of films to help the viewing audience avoid or motivate people to seeing a movie. There are way to many things in this world that people take for granted. The environment, their parents, their money, love, etc. One of the largest things that people take for granted is of high…

For those of you unfamiliar with the original; Basic Instinct was a highly anticipated and controversial film. It introduced Michael Douglas as the king of adult thrillers (following Fatal Attraction), and propelled Sharon Stone to stardom. The plot was simple: decorated San Francisco police officer is infatuated with a sexy novelist/murder suspect…

What begins as a narrated adaptation of the source novel quickly falls into the petty problems of it’s cast and crew: Steve Coogan (as a satirical version of himself) faces such dilemmas as his wardrobe not making him taller than his co-star (on obvious comparison to his insecurities of not being the “bigger” man), and later must deal with his girlfriend, Jenny, and newborn son. Through conversations Coogan has with various cast and crew…

There was something about Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow that was much more appealing and likeable in the first film rather than the second. His character is dressed in a red bandana, with long black, braided hair occasionally holding beads in certain strands. Most of his teeth are there, but a few are gold and silver. He walks with a drunken stagger, possibly because he’s a rumaholic or because he’s grown so attached to the rocking back and forth of his ship…