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Vampiric Animated Visuals in 'Hotel Transylvania'

Finally, a family animated movie with characters that include housekeeping witches, zombie Mozart's, and a skeleton Mariachi band. From Sony Pictures,  Hotel Transylvania  went through 5 directors until it landed on Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory , Star Wars: Clone Wars). Dracula ( Adam Sandler ) has a strict no humans allowed policy at the Hotel Transylvania, preserving it under all costs to remain the sanctuary of the undead, monsters, and displaced freaks of the living world. So when an American backpacking tourist voiced by Andy Samberg ( SNL ) stumbles upon the hotel, Drac must disguise the human as Frankenhomie, whose monstrous appearance is more acceptable for the special weekend guests: Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man. The few hip hop/pop song numbers are intrusive, where for the sake of appealing to the masses, an alternative soundtrack would have married sound and vi...

Fall 2012 Movies to Watch For

Fall 2012. A DiCaprio Christmas Day double-header. The return of a Master. Two gothimated (that's goth + animated) movies. Which will you choose? The screen awaits. The Master (September 14th) This is Paul Thomas Anderson 's first film since the 2007's knock-out film  There Will Be Blood . This also marks the return of Joaquin Phoenix in his first dramatic role since Two Lovers (2008), a film that no one saw. Of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman will master another performance. Django Unchained (December 25th) Quentin Tarantino directing Leonardo DiCaprio - will Di finally win an Oscar this time?! Or will the Academy wait until he's old and gray to recognize that he's the most talented actor since Marlon Brando. The film is inspired by 1960s spaghetti westerns.   The Great Gatsby (December 25th) Baz Luhrmann 's version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel will no doubt be much different than the 1974 release starring Robert ...