It is probably very telling that the most endearing characters in Oz The Great and Powerful, the ones with the most emotional gravitas and who demand an audience’s empathy, are a china doll and a bellhop-clad monkey. Because for all the many fanciful things in this new Oz, a real […]
Oooooooh yeah. The prequel to The Wizard of Oz looks pretty terrific in this 2-minute sneak peek. Are you excited or nervous about the modern-day screwing with a legendary tale (that doesn’t always work out, see: the cinematic Dr. Seuss oeuvre)? Will you & your kids be there on March […]
Remember those Invisible Ink Books your mom would buy for the long & boring road trips to Grandma’s house? You’d rub all over with that curious, rather bland-looking marker, then squeal with delight as images magically appeared. Those books and a lb. of goldfish almost made the journeys bearable. I […]
