Tag: chrissanders
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Review: Live-Action Remake Fails to Justify Its Existence
When filmmaker Gus Van Zant (Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) remade Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, in 1998, critics somewhat justifiably dismissed the end result as a stunt, a prank, a jest, and not an affectionate homage to a...
LILO & STITCH Review: New Ways to Be Cute
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp ('Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'), the live-action remake stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, and Zach Galifianakis.
Toronto 2024 Review: THE WILD ROBOT, Ground-breaking Animation Powers Familiar Family Tale
Dreamworks Animation presents Chris Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's popular children's book.
Review: THE CALL OF THE WILD Gives Mo-Cap-Heavy Adaptations a Bad Name
Harrison Ford and Terry Notary star as a prospector and a dog, respectively; Chris Sanders directs a new version of Jack London's classic tale of adventure.
The Stack: HOUSE OF WAX 3D, 100 BLOODY ACRES, THE CROODS, THIS IS THE END and more...
Welcome back to The Stack! This week we're dividing the show into two separate episodes so I can finally catch up from Fantastic Fest. Look for October 8 releases to be covered on Wednesday October 9. In the mean time...
Review: THE CROODS Survives by its Wits
Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone head the voice cast of Dreamworks' latest animated odyssey, following the world's last surviving family of Neanderthals as they venture forth into an untamed and unexplored prehistoric world. Gorgeous visuals, frantic pacing and a...