There is more grave than gravy about A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2009)
Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Alamo Village, 12/10/09, 3:15pm
One could hear a collective groan from moviegoers everywhere when Robert Zemeckis announced that he would be making yet another motion-capture animated film (after his disappointing efforts with The Polar Express (2004) and Beowulf (2007)), that it would be yet another in an endless slew of cinematic Christmas Carol renditions, [...]
Plagued by the Past in 2009
I have been thinking about writing a blog post on the cinema year in review. I’d take about the general trends that the year brought, the highs, lows, surprises and upsets of the year. That kind of thing.
As part of that project, I have been thinking about consistent themes of the [...]