Well Ho Ho Ho! Guess who’s playing Santa this holiday season?
The new CGI animated title Gotta Catch Santa Claus– featuring none other than William Shatner himself as the voice of Santa and the captain of the most important sleigh in the world!
I don’t know if this will become a modern-day holiday classic because both my husband and daughter found the movie too modern and kind of weird because the kids in the movie were not wearing winter clothes in the snow. The characters didn’t set a good example of how children should behave. Yet, the movie is being promoted as funny, contemporary and enjoyable for the entire family and features six jolly jammin’ new holiday songs. My daughter commented that the songs are not all that great either. She also told me about a department store Santa Claus who picked up kids and was mean to the kids as the parents took a pictures. By the time they get off his lap, they started crying.
Any-Ho! The story centers on a friend who starts to doubt the idea of Santa Claus, 12 year old Trevor sets out on a mission to catch old St. Nick in order to prove his existence and put the skeptics to rest. Gotta Catch Santa Claus, which will be broadcast nationally on ABC Family during their annual “25 Days of Christmas” programming block, features bonus materials on the DVD that include deleted scenes, behind the scenes Santa footage, sing-along songs and more!
Screenhead has a copy of Gotta Catch Santa Clausto give away. Post your name to have a chance at winning the DVD. Screenhead will pick the winner Sunday, December 10, 2009.
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is a wacky, upbeat and entertaining film. I have seen the trailers and each one is a kicker. They are so much fun that I watch them over again, sharing them with family and friends. It may sound corny but it’s wacky.
Now anyone can send a holiday e-card to friends and family – and play the new MR. FOX game and test your waffle-eating prowess with the click of your fingers on the keyboard or with a web cam… Just click here.
Even iTunes allows you to visit Mr. Fox’s room by clicking here. If you feel like clicking again, you can find some more Mr. Fox stuff for your iPhone here.
Fantastic Mr. Fox opened yesterday in NY and LA! The film will expand to more cities next week, and then go wide the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, November 25. 2009.
Okay, so people weren’t too enthused by the Screenhead Film Festival’s big prize giveaway (it was ten DVDs, man! That’s got a retail value of like two, maybe three hundred bucks!), but I’ve got something here that might put some fire in your belly.
It’s the Indieroar Film Festival, and I just got word of it from director Alan Rowe Kelly. Top prize? Five THOUSAND dollars.
Plus, you’ll also get some film editing software with that. And if that isn’t enough, there are also second and third prizes too, a thousand bucks a crack. Entries are being accepted in five categories: horror, drama, comedy, animation and documentary, and each entry must be UNDER twenty five minutes in length.
The public will vote on the gathered films, and winnow down the entries to the top twenty five in each category, the winners of which will be decided by a jury.
So if you’re a short film maker and you’re up for a shot at five grand, grab your camcorder and get to shooting. Deadline for entry is January 15th, 2010.
I am excited about this movie, the visuals are breathtaking. I want to swim in the crystal clear water of Pandora!
Even though we see the same type of footage of the movie, without details about the process of operating the Avatar, I am still fascinated. I am curious how the Avatars work and if there are any limitations or dangers while operating one of the Avatars. Whatever the limitations and dangers are will add to the suspense of the story and make it even more thrilling to see.
In cinema you tend to see two types of directors: those who make different movies across different genres, and those who make the same movie over and over. The latter are often labelled auteurs, obsessed with a particular theme or style that they need to create using different scenarios, as if chipping away at some metaphysical truth. But such people can also lose their audience along the way, boring them with the same themes, the same style. Wes Anderson, writer/director of offbeat comedies such as Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, is certainly in the latter of these characters, with his tales of family dysfunction and his trademark style that can only be described as a quirky mix between JD Salinger and high-school theatre. But his last film, the Darjeeling Ltd, performed poorly at the box office and was criticised for its insubstantiality and repetitiveness. So it comes as a relief to see his latest film is an adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel Fantastic Mr Fox. And it’s a stop-motion animation. But while a Dahl story (which are usually amusingly grotesque) may seem like a perfect way for Anderson to branch out in his use of themes, it’s ironic to realise that Fantastic Mr Fox is possibly Anderson’s most quintessential film.
The tale deals with the eponymous hero, who decides to give up his farm-raiding ways in order to provide a safer life for his wife and son Ash (who is deeply jealous of his cousin Kristofferson for attraction his father’s attention). But Mr Fox decides to return to his wily ways, moving home to reside near the farms of the three most dangerous humans in the area: Bean, Boggis, and Bunce. Enlisting some animal companions to enact his master-plan, complications arise, putting Fox’s family and friend at serious risk.
Once again Anderson returns to his key figure of the reluctant father. Mr Fox is merely a canid version of Royal Tenenbaum or Steve Zissou, too interested in his own entertainment to live up to his responsibilities. His family are just as dysfunctional as the Tenenbaums, with Mrs Fox doubting her decision to marry her husband, son Ash unable to live up to his father’s reputation, etc. And of course despite being an animation the film still has the same feel of an Anderson movie, brimming with primary colours, chapter headings, and the use of understated wit that can make his films either hilarious or dull. Read the rest of this entry »
It is now very, very unlikely that we’ll be getting another installment of the celebrated Pixar classic Monsters Inc any time soon, and frankly, that’s probably for the best.
Seriously, the way they ended the last one was going to make for some serious problems if a sequel were to come up. The whole idea that children’s laughter was several orders of magnitude stronger than their fear, and that solved the monster energy crisis, was pretty much as final as it got. Who would go back to scaring children? There’s no percentage in it any more.
But former Monsters staffer Pete Docter is apparently neck deep in something else, and Pixar’s newest project is about a few weeks in, if the advance word is to be believed.
Of course, we’ve all been wrong before on this sort of thing, but I have to admit that the smart money right now says no more corporate monsters any time soon.
My daughter enjoyed the latest Veggie Tales featuring all-stars Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber, this new seasonal DVD tells the story of Saint Nicholas, the world’s greatest giver, and introduces Nicky the Pepper, the first new Veggie Tales character in five years. Bonus features include an original new song by singer-songwriter Matthew West, “Give This Christmas Away,” performed by West and Grammy Award-winning artist Amy Grant.
My daughter is nine and still enjoys these vegetables. She really gets a kick of each Veggie personality. She said the best part was when the tomato and the cucumber were telling the story of Saint Nicholas. The cucumber kept on wanting things in the story to be different. Like when the two vegetables were telling the story, there was no twinkling lights, with cucumber’s imagination, he suggested twinkling lights, and then there was twinkling lights – my daughter thought that was funny.
Screenhead has Saint Nicholas available for a giveaway. Please post your name and we will pick the winner Saturday, November 28, 2009, just in time for Christmas.
A new trailer for Illumination Entertainment’s 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me has just debuted online!
The newDespicable Metrailer doesn’t reveal much about the movie, but it’s worth watching for enjoyment. The movie includes a wonderful cast including Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement and Julie Andrews.
Movie will be in theaters July 9, 2010!
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon.
Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.
The world’s (second) greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.
You know what…the trailer doesn’t show any of this story. You can see it at Apple.
This is a fun movie and I am sure we will see more trailers on this film. It’s a good trailer to watch on a Monday after a weekend of Halloween. It put a smile on my face. Enjoy!
Well Ho Ho Ho! Guess who’s playing Santa this holiday season?
Wes Anderson’s 
Okay, so people weren’t too enthused by the
In cinema you tend to see two types of directors: those who make different movies across different genres, and those who make the same movie over and over. The latter are often labelled auteurs, obsessed with a particular theme or style that they need to create using different scenarios, as if chipping away at some metaphysical truth. But such people can also lose their audience along the way, boring them with the same themes, the same style. Wes Anderson, writer/director of offbeat comedies such as 
It is now very, very unlikely that we’ll be getting another installment of the celebrated 
