We’ll warn you in advance: this episode goes to some strange places. We review It’s Kind of a Funny Story and critique another critic’s buzz-phrase, which leads into a discussion on Hollywood’s recently adopted cause: bullying – a cause we can’t stress enough. Trying to get back on track we look at two of John Carpenter’s alien invasion movies before misreporting... 

In many ways, Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is a return to a formula that spelled success for the animation house in the past. Most notably, it’s a return to hand drawn animation for the studio, who had moved to strictly computer animation ever since 2004’s Home on the Range, a movie that was poorly received. It’s also a return to a story structure that has proven itself time after time... 

Hands down, Gamer is the most disappointing picture of 2009 thus far. Unlike the summer franchise sequels that didn’t live up to the promise of their predecessors, Gamer showed the potential of something new that looked to be entertaining and carry some sort of social commentary, like good science fiction should. Instead the movie is an elaborate mess, a sloppy story that’s poorly told that somehow...