Tag Archives: Adventure

Family dynamics, big thoughts from a little head, and the pursuit of excellence

With Oliver Stone’s Alexander (click for trailer) lurking on the filmic horizon, this interview from Archaeology magazine with the film’s chief historian Robin Lane Fox (pictured above with star Colin Farrel) – who teaches Greek and Latin literature, Greek, Roman and early Islamic history at Oxford, AND who appears in …

My wife, our 4 year-old daughter and I enticed my parents to watch the baby and darted the luxuriously short distance to our brand new cineplex (stadium seating, all that new crap), right here in burgeoning Aurora, to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and other than my …

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban arrives in U.S. theaters today, after doing boffo biz in Europe this week: The new Harry Potter film has broken a record set by its predecessor, The Chamber of Secrets, by taking £11.5m in three days at the UK box office. The Chamber …

Alan Dale is a peerless reviewer and a treasured asset of Blogcritics – his erudition and range of references, which appear to be effortlessly on hand, are staggering. But regarding Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, this time, I do believe he (to be cliched) missed the point. His …

Although it’s only been a couple of weeks, it seems an eternity since The Return of the King came out, so I feel compelled to add “finally” when I say we saw it last night. I am still trying hard to get my head around such a huge slab of …

We finally snagged The Pirates of the Caribbean DVD and watched the film portion last night – it is exceptional. The casting couldn’t have been much better, especially an extravagant, Peter O’Toole-like Johnny Depp as a surprisingly multi-dimensional pirate with a conscience, and Geoffrey Rush as his piratical nemesis and …

The Indiana Jones trilogy comes to DVD tomorrow: A close second to the original “Star Wars” trilogy on DVD-lovers’ wish list, “The Adventures of Indiana Jones” debuts Tuesday in a four-disc boxed set that includes one of the most comprehensive making-of documentaries ever. Hardcore fans who think they know it …

We watched Twister on TV twice on our vacation – we missed the beginning the first time and the ending the second time so it all evened out. I am somewhat embarrassed to admit we loved it. Our almost-four-year-old called it “the movie with cows and tomatoes.” I believe she …

MTV does Spider-Man.