Home Is Not Where The Heart Is
The world of sci-fi animaton is surprisingly sparse of huge successes, despite the presence of…
NerdInTheBasement
NerdInTheBasement (A.K.A. Douglas Laman) is a man of cinema, pure and simple. He loves good music, good food, good friends and the vocals of Idina Menzel. He does movie reviews, news pieces, editorials, occasional TV coverage and is well-known for writing like he's running out of time. Douglas Laman also has a Patreon, where you can donate to support his crippling movie-watching habit: https://www.patreon.com/DouglasLaman
Articles:
How DreamWorks Animation Lost Its Way
When I was kid, growing up at the dawn of the 21st century, there was…
To Live And Divergent In LA
In the year since Divergent was released, so much has changed for the cast. Shailiene…
A Cinderella Story
It’s interesting to look at how the treatment of fairy tales in pop culture has…
2 Best Exotic 2 Marigold Hotel
There’s no shortage of extremely pleasing scenery in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which…
I (Didn’t Care For This), Robot
My gut instinct is to say that Chappie goes off the rails, but that would…
Focus Is A Con Artist Film That Loses….Well, Y’know.
There’s a lot of money stolen, exchanged and gambled in Focus, a con artist feature…
A Look At Will Smith’s Career Of Aliens, Explosions And Jaden Smith
An actors career is kind of like a story in and of itself; full of…
Can We Start Giving Superhero Films Some Respect: Part Two: Electric Insult Boogaloo
Well hey! Like anything that’s successful, here’s a sequel to my earlier editorial surrounding the…
What Happened To 3D?
If history has taught us one thing, it’s that there’s one tactic Hollywood knows how…