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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a fantasy adventure film released this year that is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It’s basically the same team that did the National Treasure franchise. Parts of the story are loosely based on the Sorcerer’s Apprentice segment in Disney’s Fantasia, which in turn is based on the late 1890s symphonic poem by Paul Dukas and the 1797 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ballad.

I have to be honest here. When I saw the trailer for this movie I thought “this looks awful” but I had a few friends of mine tell me that I’d be surprised if I went and saw it. So yesterday Bri and I decided to see it yesterday for $1.50 each (dollar theater raised the price lol).

How was it? Let me tell you..

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Fear of Clowns is a fairly low budget film (but not as low as Mr. Jingles) written by a guy who wants to create a classic icon on the same level as Freddy Kreuger, Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees. Did he succeed? Let’s break down Fear of Clowns and find out!

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What do you expect to see when you see a DVD box like the one above? A decent horror film? A cheesy, yet enjoyable, film? Perhaps a diamond in the rough. Well let’s take a look at Mr. Jingles and see.

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When I first saw the trailer for Taken I was unsure of how the film would be. I ended up waiting til it came out on DVD. After seeing it I forgot to do a short review of it. But since I have just finished rewatching it I thought now would be a pretty good time to do one.
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This movie is unlike any other version of Sherlock Holmes ever made. It’s a wild ride of action, drama and comedy weaved together to create a pretty cool movie.
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Many of us grew up with Disney movies and it is very likely that our first exposure to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the 1951 animated Disney film. In this film Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and enters a bad acid trip she calls Wonderland. The entire film follows Alice as she meets a bunch of nonsensical and insane characters along her journey. Eventually she wakes up and the movie leaves you wondering if it was real or just a dream.

59 years later Tim Burton decides to create a sequel to that and thus Alice in Wonderland is born and released. But how does it hold up?
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I originally saw Saw VI in theaters and again just a few nights ago on DVD. I forgot to write a review when I saw it in theaters, so let me fix that now..

As far as the Saw movies go, 6 is a great addition to the series and a much-needed face lift after the last one. This movie had a lot of decent twists, tries to wrap the series up (though it does leave a few plot threads open, since they are working on a 7th), and of course has quite a bit of gore with the traps.
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I got the “pleasure” of seeing this movie, called Never Back Down. What can I say about this movie to someone who hasn’t seen it? I would probably say “it’s like The Karate Kid without any of the charm and fun.” But let’s look at it in a little more depth.
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