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Review: THE NUT JOB 2: NUTTY BY NATURE, A Nutty Surprise
Everyone loves to be pleasantly surprised by a movie. What's even better? Being surprised by being pleasantly surprised by a movie. There is no known expectation of The Nut Job sequel being any good in any way. The 2014...
Review: THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Just Might Save the DC Cinematic Universe
Following a string of direct-to-video animated outings for DC characters in LEGO form, themselves spawned from a series of successful video games, Batman appeared in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 2014 smash hit The LEGO Movie and promptly stole the show....
Review: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, Funnier Than The First One
Superman had it easy. He was a superpowered immigrant who came to America as an infant in the 1930s, and made his big-screen debut in animated shorts in 1941. By 1978, most people never thought about him. Comic books were...
J Hurtado's Top 10 Movie Memories Of 2014
Here we go again!My standard admonition about my own lists is that these are, in no way AT ALL, the best movies of the year. They are the ones that gave me the biggest thrills, made me think, made me...
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tops Online Film Critics Awards
Wes Anderson's rip-roaring love letter to Lubitsch and Hitchcock, The Grand Budapest Hotel, topped this year's Online Film Critics Society Awards, which counts a number of ScreenAnarchy contributors amongst its global membership. The film won awards for Best Picture, Best...
Review: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Chooses Not To Compete, And Succeeds
Michael Bay gets his hands on another beloved property from our childhoods, but as producer of a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature his signature influence is somewhat muted. Director Jonathan Liebesman instead delivers a superhero adventure pitched squarely at...
Check Out The Half-Shells On These TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES One-Sheets!
While the world goes crazy over Michael Bay's fourth offering of toy robot-inspired global destruction, let us not forget that he has another dollop of kid-friendly action entertainment just around the corner. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, produced by Bay, and...
Destroy All Monsters: Girls and LEGO
Major spoilers for The LEGO Movie follow. If you don't want to read about the ending, bookmark for later! So girls can't play with LEGO? That's the takeaway from The LEGO Movie, a takeaway which I thought was just a...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks THE LEGO MOVIE and THE MONUMENTS MEN
Sure, it's a film about building blocks, but The LEGO Movie proves to have all the right pieces. It's a tonne of fun, and easily one of the best films of 2014.Also chatted about the disappointing The Monuments Men, a...
Review: THE LEGO MOVIE Is Brickin' Fantastic
Let's not bury the lede: The LEGO Movie, even this early into the season, is the best animated film of the year. I mean, sure, it's only February, but this is one of the funniest, most clever animated films in years. Not...
Ghibli Retrospective: THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY
Willem (age 10) and Miranda (age 9) put a capstone on their extended marathon of Studio Ghibli viewing. After taking both the heaviest Studio Ghibli film, Grave of the Fireflies, and the lightest entry, The Cat Returns, they end the...
It's A Slow Build: First Full Trailer For THE LEGO MOVIE
The film's still months away, but it seems I'm already running out of decent Brick-themed puns. Still, this first full trailer show that the clear nod to many Warner properties (including the obvious ones like Batman and Superman, and even...
THE LEGO MOVIE Trailer Will Make You Shit Bricks
Out of all the movie trailers that leave me hyperventilating with excitement, from stunning teases of Scorsese or Coen Brothers films to crazy/awesome looking Polish semi-documentaries, you might be surprised that a little film coming out in 2014 from Warner might...
Who Is Will Arnett Playing In TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES?
We know he's not Casey Jones but that's about all we know about Will Arnett's role in the upcoming Michael Bay produced / Jonathan Liebesman directed live action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that...
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Review
Arriving early in the year, Japan's "The Secret World of Arrietty" may go on to stand tall as one of the best films of the year. Graceful and elegant, unafraid to take its time but never boring, this adaptation...
Review: THE INCREASINGLY POOR DECISIONS OF TODD MARGARET: SERIES ONE (DVD)
Todd Margaret is, not to put too fine a point on it, an asshole. David Cross's character in this six-episode BBC/U.S. co-production isn't a bad person necessarily, but he is stupid and a compulsive liar and unwilling or unable to...
David Cross. Will Arnett. THE INCREASINGLY POOR DECISIONS OF TODD MARGARET.
David Cross and Will Arnett back together again? Is it the second coming of Arrested Development? No, this is something even better ...If you'll recall, back at the beginning of November I posted something about a comedy pilot titled Campus,...
