All aboard &#39;Polar Express&#39;
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With the popularity of computer animation and the success movies that use this advanced technology have waves of new and innovative story-telling continue and thrive.
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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Lately, I have been asked if there is anything really good playing at the movies. Now I have something to rave about -- a film called &quot;Hero.
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After a slow start out of the station, "The Polar Express" just keeps chugging along. Taking in nearly &#36;10 million over the weekend, the holiday tale lifted its domestic total to &#36;110 million with plenty of steam left for Christmas and New Year's.
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What would Christmas time be without a bigâass Santa fantasy flick form a bigâass studio with a bigâass star. Warner Bros went all out for &quot;The Polar Express&quot; by snagging Tom Hanks and director Robert
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There&#39;s a popular misconception that it&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any likable characters. Nonsense. The truth, as usual, is a bit more subtle: It&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any empathetic characters. You don&#39;t have to ...
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LOS ANGELES  - Warner Bros. Pictures'  costly new entrant "The Polar Express" goes up against reigning  champ "The Incredibles" at the weekend box office, but is  unlikely to dislodge the hit superhero cartoon.
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(CBS) &quot;The Polar Express&quot; has delighted children for 20 years, since Chris van Allsburg penned the tale about a train ride to the North Pole.
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It's not just The Polar Express that's pulling into the theatrical station this season.
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Robert Zemeckis&#39; opulent big-screen rendition of Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s holiday best seller The Polar Express is so visually dazzling that it&#39;s the very definition of Christmas eye candy - and that&#39;s the problem.
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Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of the children&#39;s classic The Polar Express, is a low-tech kind of guy. He prefers the feeling of pastels and paper
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Even at a hefty cost of around $165 million (89 million pounds) to make &quot;The Polar Express,&quot; director Robert Zemeckis thinks an innovative new animation technique
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Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of the children's classic The Polar Express, is a low-tech kind of guy. He prefers the feeling of pastels and paper to the keyboard, doesn't type or use a cell phone, and lets his wife, Lisa, handle the family's e-mail.
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Okay, a few days ago I wrote a review of the Diving Bell and the Butterfly saying it could be the best picture of 2007, but even so you might want to skip it because the truth it reveals might be something you don't want to look at. It's a fine picture, but a tough one. Another wonderful but tough picture is No Country for Old Men. It's one of those movies that leaves so much unresolved that you walk out of the theater not sure which foot goes in front of the other. On a second viewing it makes much more sense. The world isn't necessarily as crazy as it at first seemed. But there's a movie that is also incredibly well crafted, and gets better every time you think about it -- Juno. I didn't realize how much I liked it until I heard someone compare it to Little Miss Sunshine, a movie that I did not enjoy, unlike everyone else it seems. I loved Juno because it organizes its sweetness into love for one person, the star of the movie, Juno. But everyone, no matter how dorky or clueless (and some of the adults are truly dorky and clueless) shares the love. The movie has a wholeness, an unqualified goodness, you not only walk out of the theater in love with Juno and everyone else in the movie, but your heart is warmed for everyone, including yourself. It's that good.  All three remind how good movies can be. And there were some not-too-bad movies at the end of 2007, for example, Atonement, which some didn't like, but I did. 3:10 to Yuma is a well-crafted genre picture. Michael Clayton was a perfect showcase for the talents of George Clooney. Great acting and a simple story in The Savages.  Which one was the best? I'd hate to have to choose!
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Tom Hanks doesn't turn Polar Express into much of a thrill ride. For that you need 3-D goggles
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When the film based on Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s delicate and haunting children&#39;s book &quot;The Polar Express&quot; plays in its own backyard, it has the purity of virgin, new-fallen snow.
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Tycho:  There's even a little bearcake in there for the fur contingent!  Truly, this film  has it all.