The Simpsons

By Christopher Campbell The stranger part of the story, however, is that TWC will also apparently be re-releasing Halloween II in theatres for a limited engagement and special midnight screenings around Halloween. People have often wondered why the rebooted franchise has stuck to late summer releases thus fa...

By Christopher Campbell David Wharton at Cinema Blend doubts the movie will translate easily to TV: Its source material at least sets it apart from the glut of other modern teen dramas, but I’m extremely skeptical that any of the edginess or bleak humor of the original will survive a modern TV development process.

By Christopher Campbell It’s another slow day in the film news world, so I’m going with the usual standby, complaining once again about another beloved bunch of classic characters being reincarnated as CG poop-eaters. I never like to use phrases like “is nothing sacred,” but I was awfully close to shouting the wo...

By Christopher Campbell Long-running film franchises of the 30s and 40s were like TV series before there was TV. The Hardy Family movies (aka the Family Affair sequels) were kind of the predecessor to television family dramas, while the comic-strip-adapted Blondie franchise gave way to the TV sitcom. We’d inclu...

By Christopher Campbell I sat through all eight mintues of Solomon’s interview with Michael Bay (also in video) to see him ask about the Megan Fox story, and it never came up (though Michael Bay does reveal “I was a magician as a child.”).  Secondly, why would she have to “audition” for a sequel?  The only grain of trut...

By Christopher Campbell Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost movie took the original television show in a weird new direction. Ferrell plunked a version of his famous character from Anchorman into a science fiction landscape - and it worked…if you’re looking for good science fiction fun this weekend I would recommen...

By Christopher Campbell It’s quite convenient for Warner Bros. that Time magazine, a fellow Time Warner subsidiary, has been able to break the review embargo on Watchmen. Though (geek blogger and Simpsons executive producer) Matt Selman acknowledges the embargo, he neither considers himself press nor his pos...