Joel Murray
Trailer Trashin’: Class is Now in Session at Monsters University
It’s almost here, dear readers. With the Academy Awards this coming weekend, we’re almost to the end of February and the beginning of the season for what will hopefully be good movies. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at one of those upcoming releases, with the new UK trailer for Pixar’s Monsters University. Premise: Set about ten years before the events of M...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Pixar Enters the Prequel Game with Monsters University
Well, faithful readers, this is a day I’ve awaited since I started writing this column – I finally get to write about a Pixar movie! This week brings us the first teaser for the first Pixar prequel, Monsters University. Premise: Set about ten years before the events of Monsters, Inc., this is the story of how James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski met during their college days at the U...[Read More]
Movie Review: God Bless America
Opening on a pitch-black fantasy of a wailing baby being thrown in the air and shot down like a skeet target, comedian-turned-filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait pays blunt warning in the opening minutes of God Bless America – his screed against the tendencies toward cruelty and narcissism in modern American culture. Those easily offended would do well to stay away from this extreme (and extremely funny) ...[Read More]