Rodney Takes a Nap: Oscars as Sleep Aid
For the first time since I started watching the Oscars seriously around ’93, when “Schindler’s List” swept all before it, I think this year’s ceremony will be among the most predictable of them all. I […]
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War Of The Worlds (2005) -vs- Independence Day (1996)
The Smackdown If you had to choose death from above, would you pick the green lasers, or the blue beams of destruction? It’s “Alien versus Alien” today, technology against technology, human victory against germ warfare, […]
Australia (2008) -vs- Moulin Rouge! (2001)
The Smackdown Australia is a continent, my country, a state of mind and now, finally, a movie. To get the silver-screen version made, they gave one of the most visually stylish directors working today more […]
Hancock (2008) -vs- Superman: The Movie (1978)
The Smackdown You’d be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood has forgotten how to make anything but superhero movies. They come out as regularly as the comic books that spawned them once did for adolescent boys […]