The Rabbi’s Cat, which did not get nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar this year (since all the slots were taken by bigger-budget, non-foreign cartoons), will be out on Blu-ray later this spring. It’s also playing a few selected theaters in the U.S. starting this month. In the meantime, I got a chance to check out a screener. Here’s a subtitled trailer: Like the trailer, the movie is told in French with English subtitles. The first thing I noticed […]

The sequel to Red, a comic book movie adaptation I was really surprised to enjoy, has had its first trailer released. Red (said to stand for “Retired, Extremely Dangerous”) was based on a comic by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner about retired CIA agents that have to reunite and demonstrate how they’re still incredibly competent when one of them is targeted. Here’s the trailer: Based on this, the key actors of Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren […]

Dredd is an extremely violent science fiction action movie that is also very faithful to its comic source. For fans of either genre, it’s worth watching. Comic fans will also appreciate the mini-documentary on the source material included in the home video release. Judge Dredd was created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra in 2000 AD in 1977. In a nice touch, that’s the very first of the end credits, before even the actors’ names appear. The movie is faithful […]

Dick Tracy was released on Blu-ray last month. I saw the movie when it came out, and I was impressed by the cast. I also liked the limited palette, with only a few shades of bright colors used to give the movie a comic-strip look. For instance, early on, a set of oil barrels are red, green, and yellow, and suits are similar crazy shades — emerald, purple, and so on. It looks like someone spilled their crayon box all […]