Spoilers as to the identity of the Wicked Witch of the West contained within. When I say that Oz the Great and Powerful is all downhill from the opening credits, don't take that to be too harsh a ...

In Sam Raimi's prequel Oz The Great and Powerful, he attempts to replicate the original's magic by laying on the CGI, a strategy that risks provoking the ire of fans. Furthermore, gone are the songs ...

There's a new trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful and it looks like the Sam Raimi directing, James Franco starring project will be a loud, technicolor trip back to Oz you might want to avoid. Okay, ...

It’s a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar, also the ceremony that star James Franco once presided over as calamitously as he ...

Some of them reach at least a little bit in their reference points: “Somewhere over the rainbow there may be a more magical movie, but this will certainly do.” – Tom Long, Detroit News “...you draw ...

This line, sung by Glinda in the song “No One Mourns the Wicked,” is one of the most nuanced lyrics, in my opinion, of the whole “Wicked” musical. It applies for every type of villain, even though the ...

In the film from director Sam Raimi, a young man played by James Franco is caught in a tornado that takes him from Kansas to Oz. That's where we get the back-story of how a circus magician named Oscar ...

Dorothy Gale may be the star of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but the Wizard himself, a fellow Kansan, also has a tornado-to-Oz journey worth sharing. Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to L. Frank ...

So, it turns out in Oz the Great & Powerful that the man behind the curtain is even smaller and less mighty than Dorothy had discovered in the Emerald City. It turns out that the tale of how the man ...