Picking a title for a movie is no easy task. Pick wrong and you just provide your critics with inspiration for their scathing headlines (“This Oz ain’t so great or powerful!” comes to mind). And when you finally have one, a title that perfectly encapsulates everything you want to say about your film, and then somebody tries to steal that …

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I’ve got some love for Disney again lately. Their recent slate of films, such as The Princess and The Frog and Tangled has proven that they don’t need Pixar when it comes to creating some decent films. Disney is long overdue a third golden age of animated films, and their next one, Frozen, looks like it could keep that flame …

This year appears to be the worst time to pay a visit to Barack Obama’s pad as we have not just one but two movies featuring plots where terrorists take over the White House. Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down are also not exceptional cases, as Hollywood has a history of releasing similar themed films very close to one another. Here …

If there’s any industry that is really weird behind the scenes, it’s got to be pornography. What goes on behind closed doors and sets, in order to make those spank bank movies which will then be pirated across the internet is something that I don’t want to know anything about. But it never used to be that way. Sure, porno …

It’s amazing how well Jurassic Park has aged. The original at least. While sequels 2 and 3 may have been decent attempts to recapture that glory, it was fleeting. So to say that Jurassic Park 4 director Colin Trevorrow has some hurdles to jump for this film, isn’t an understatement. And he’s well aware of that legacy. Last Updated: July …

Were you perhaps watching all those kids die in Cabin in the Woods and daydreaming of being at the cabin yourself? Well, neither did I, because that seems reckless and terrifying. However, the evil folks over at Universal Orlando will now be giving you the opportunity to do just that… *terrified whimper* Last Updated: July 4, 2013

When it comes to animated movies, it’s easy to forget that there are other studios making them besides for the big trinity of Dreamworks Animation, Disney and Pixar. Blue Sky Studios also has a horse in the race, and when I say horse, I actually mean prehistoric squirrel chasing an acorn. Laika may not be as much of a household …