The 76th-annual Academy Awards, broadcast on Feb. 29, may just go down in history — as producing the dullest, most predictable set of winners ever to parade down Hollywood Boulevard. Granted, it was also a list of Oscar winners largely incapable of producing much in the way of head-scratching puzzlement or teeth-gnashing anger. Was I […]
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
After I burned out on admiring the gorgeous, slightly sub-Tim Burton production design by Bill Boes (who started out trying to make films look Burtonesque with Monkeybone), and after I got beyond wallowing in cinematographer Oliver Wood’s strikingly saturated colors, I realized I still had about 70 of Scooby Doo 2’s 91 minutes to slog […]