25 Days of Christmas: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000)

Welcome to Day 22 of our 25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS series, where we will be taking a look at holiday classics each day in the lead up to Christmas. Today, we'll be taking a look at Ron Howard's hidden gem...HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS.

Side By Side: THE ROBERT LANGDON SERIES (THE DAVINCI CODE vs. ANGELS AND DEMONS)

Welcome to another installment of SIDE BY SIDE, where we dissect the differences and similarities between two films, be it a remake/reboot with its original, a sequel with its original, or two similar movies. This week we’ll be taking a look at a pair of films in a series that preceded 2016's latest box office flop Inferno… THE DAVINCI CODE and ANGELS AND DEMONS.

Movie Review - INFERNO (Review #2)

Inferno is the third film in the Robert Langdon series, based on the books by best-selling author Dan Brown, directed by Ron Howard. It stars Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, and Sidse Babett Knudsen. This film finds Robert Langdon in a hospital struggling to remember things that happened in the last couple of days. He then gets drawn into a situation where he has to solve a puzzle based on art and history to discover a plague before it is released killing a large portion of the world’s population. I enjoyed this series of books (though I have yet to read Inferno) and really liked Angels and Demons (more on that on Tuesday!). This film was wildly disappointing for me and is the worst of the series thus far.

Movie Review: INFERNO

Based on the book by Dan Brown, Inferno finds professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) in Florence as he wakes up in a hospital being taken care of by doctor Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) and he does not remember anything of the past two days. Quickly, details start to emerge,Langdon  is hunted down at the hospital, escapes with Sienna and discovers he is on the run and the only clue he has is a map of Dante's Inferno.