Hop is a film both contextually and inherently about family, notably the aspirations fathers; both human and bunny, have for their sons. The kind of film we as adults go to see mostly because we know the younger bunnies in our families want to see them. Sometimes the most we can hope for in cases like this is to find a shred of inspired filmmaking in the basket. There isn’t a whole lot to love about Hop but on the other hand there isn’t much to dislike. Hop will undoubtedly make your children giggle and awe given its crisp, cutesy animation and its main character, E.B. the brazen jellybean-…

In Limitless Bradley Cooper portrays sad-sack writer Eddie Morra who through both miracle and circumstance stumbles upon a gift that every writer hopes to as they aim to complete their next project, clarity.  This clarity and intelligence come in the form of an illicit pharmaceutical drug called NZT. Morra can now access everything on demand that the circuits of his brain have stored throughout his life. Suddenly Morra can reference everything he has ever seen or known then apply that knowledge to the situations and conundrums that face him. This kind of limitless access enables him to finish…

Pelican Beach Productions owner and local promotional film producer, Jonathan Spencer, gives his review on the film "The Lincoln Lawyer." I knew I should have become a lawyer. This past weekend, March 19, I combed carefully over the selections at the local multi-plex. I was trying to decide between watching Battle LA, a happy-go-lucky drug that turns your brain into a super computer or a law case that I had very little background information on. I decided I would attempt to feed my intellectual appetite and go with The Lincoln Lawyer.  Now, many of my friends are lawyers and believe me, this …

It is apropos that Johnny Depp, the chameleon actor who has given so many memorable and varied performances over the years in both the mainstream (Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean) and in what I believe to be unequivocally his two finest and certainly most underappreciated films, Dead Man and Ed Wood is playing just that; a chameleon in his latest foray into animated film, Rango.  Rango sees Depp again teaming up with Pirates director Gore Verbinski. Though Rango at first whiff smells like a pet project that the two may have conceived together simply because they could, it proves…

Pelican Beach Productions owner and local promotional film producer, Jonathan Spencer, gives his review on the film, Take Me Home Tonight, starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris. Before I begin my review of Take Me Home Tonight, there are a few things I should have on record.  I enjoy cheesy romantic comedies. I admire Topher Grace as an actor. I love the 1980's, especially movies with a killer 80's sound track.  So naturally, Grace's Take Me Home Tonight, would be right in my wheel house. To be fair, Take Me Home Tonight is not a bad movie, but it is also not a good movie. Where my …