Dracula (1931)
October 10th, 2010
“Listen to them, Children of the Night. What music they make”, was spoken by one of film’s most devious and scariest characters, the representation of Count Vlad, who is most often called as the true Count Dracula due to his ruthlessness towards his enemies. Most of the other facts have been filled in by lore and fiction writers but the movie has lived on in spite being first made into film in the 1930′s. The legend of Dracula has lived and died along with the characters of the film only to be re-incarnated in newer versions. The newest one, Bram Stoker’s Dracula came out in 1992 in the US which again brought back to life the blood sucking villain who is Count Dracula.
Frankenstein
September 10th, 2010
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Everybody knows the horror film that has been turned into all sorts of characters in comics and cartoon series. The movie has an eccentric budding doctor obsessed with the newly discovered power, electricity which in his mind is the key to the creation of life. His obsession turns morbid when he decides to bring back to life a man whose body is made up of parts from several corpses he dug up from graves. His experiment takes toll on his life, publicly and personally. He is ridiculed by fellow doctors and scientists as a lunatic which drives him further down the road with his morbid experiment. Upon getting his creation to breathe to life, he exclaims the famous words, “It’s alive!!! It’s Alive”. His creation turns on people and kills everybody in sight ending the experiment with his creator ending his life.
Disney vs. Pixar on Wall-E
August 16th, 2008

Image source: www.disneyswalle.com
The outline for Wall-E looks somewhat like this: “Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot that travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend.” The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has been taking out the trash, and collecting precious knick-knacks in order to stave off the monotony of his dreary routine. Little does WALL-E realize that he has recently stumbled onto a secret that could save planet Earth, and once again make the ravaged planet safe for all humanity. When highly advanced search robot EVE makes friends with WALL-E and realizes the value of his remarkable discovery, she excitedly races back to let the humans know that there’s hope for their home planet after all. But after centuries alone in the world, WALL-E can’t stand the thought of losing the only friend he’s ever known, and eagerly follows her into the deepest reaches of space on the adventure of a lifetime. Along the way, the friendly trash-collecting robot who has always known what he was made for gradually begins to understand what he was meant for.
This is the most excellent film of 2008 so far, and if Wall-E doesn’t get listed for Best Picture (not just the cheap cop-out Best Animated Picture) then I’m going to throw a total fit. This is a beautiful, smart, touching, hilarious and damn cute movie that I’m going to see at least 4 more times in the theatre. It is the best film Pixar has ever made in my opinion… and the most complete one too. I appreciated this movie.