The Whole Delivery

Photo from Warner Brothers In akin to last week, the star power and big premieres are the case with this week's edition of The Cinema on TWD Friday. It really is hard to give any of these premieres top billing over the other since they all seem to indicate top quality from them. But, I kind of already did that by choosing a clip from Invictus at the top to slide that way (only because the publisher of this site is a massive Morgan Freeman/Matt Damon partisan). The reviews are generally positive, including one lauding Clint Eastwood, Freeman, and Damon Freeman, Eastwood's "Unforgiven" co-star, finds the smart strategist living inside Mandela. The 72-year-old Oscar-winner (for Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby") slows himself down some and stoops a bit to play Mandela, but you always see him thinking. In his scenes with Damon — who makes Pienaar a quiet, new-generation hero, even when the rugby captain has little to do but rally his team and face his separa...

Would be funny is PIXAR went up and said "Let's buy DC." Walt Disney Co. said on Monday it has reached a deal to acquire comic-book titan Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, a move that underscores the company's desire to have strong box-office franchises with appeal to families. Despite the somewhat. success of the movies, the Marvel brand has kind of fallen off over the years, especially with making successful cartoons. Something that Stan Lee and crew haven't been able to do since the 90's.

From Disney's movie Bolt, via mlive.com Good, positive reviews, if not of the spectacular level of Pixar's sole creations, for Disney's Bolt are in as the movie, including this one: hits theaters today : BOLT immediately establishes a tone of gentle jokiness -- in a frenetic opening chase that could have been designed for the sequel to THE INCREDIBLES -- and proceeds to build upon it by bringing in beautifully defined characters with strong, engaging personalities. There's no real villain in the story, which means the challenges Bolt and his friends face often involve overcoming their own mindsets and attitudes instead of fighting off an enemy. Bolt (voice provided by John Travolta) is both the prized pet and screen partner of young actress Penny (Miley Cyrus, whose slightly gruff line-readings give a potentially sticky-sweet character a hint of edginess); they co-star together in a TV series that looks like a mad mash-up of "Lassie" and "Mission: Impossi...

Photo from FortuneCity Hello, and welcome to the second installment of the weekly "Saturday Cartoon Throwback Thread" Series. Today, we take a look at three more classic cartoons. Okay, it is very debatable two of them are "classics." But for some of us (whether one of the 3, two of the 3, or all of the three), these cartoons have left a lasting impact on our lives. Remember "Five hours of summer, once a week......" a few years back. Before ABC went all corporate and uncaring with their "Disney Channel" block right now, One Saturday Morning was a force that really put both Fox Kids and Kids WB on notice. And the three shows that drove one Saturday was this: "Whose that girl, what's her name, is she cool, is she lame. I'm talking about what's her name, Pepper Ann! " Pepper Ann Episode Clip . Brand Speakin New, then uggghhhhhhh, Disney's Doug (I likd this version of Doug just as much as Nick's original version, because...