Tobe Hooper is back with “Djinn,” and while he is a talented director, he’s also somewhat erratic in terms of the quality of his output. There’s a lot of debate over whether he directed “Poltergeist,” which looks like a typical Steven Spielberg film (other than the subject matter), though that could be due to the […]
Someone wiser than I said that “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” Looking at what some of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are saying, there’s perhaps some truth to that adage. Though I am not here to talk politics, so let’s apply that famous saying to the movies. Recently Rev. Bob […]
I understand why Netflix is moving toward original programming, though I am not quite sure why Yahoo would want to. That being said, they are working with Tom Hanks to produce “Electric City,” a 90-minute sci-fi series. From the article on Deadline it appears that the purpose is to drive viewers to other aspects of […]
Don’t you hate it when television shows talk down to you? I can’t stand it it when people do, never mind TV. I ask because a few weeks ago iTunes had the entire first season of “House of Anubis” available as a free download. That might still be the case, but just the thought is […]
This is interesting. I always assumed that David Prowse was the only person that played Darth Vader in the various Star Wars films and sequels, though seems that someone else played Vader during the lightsabre duels. That person is Bob Anderson, a Hollywood fencing coach who also worked on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings […]
Twentieth Century Fox is re-releasing George Lucas’s “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” in 3D in 2012, according to The New York Times. Is such a move going to help the current box office slump? This makes me wonder: Is adding another dimension to a pretty mediocre movie really going to make a […]
If this trailer is any indication, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” looks to be moving somewhat away for its cartoonish predecessor, and becoming the “Blackhawk Down” of toy-based action movies. If that makes any sense. That last scene on the cliff face, with Snake Eyes and the red-dressed Cobra ninjas (speaking of which, why would a ninja, […]
Liam Neeson vs. Nature. Nature doesn’t stand a chance.
Many blogs, this one included, have commented upon how difficult it is to understand Bane (Tom Hardy) from the trailers so far released from Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises.” It seems that Nolan was aware of the sound problem was well, though the approach he has taken is a somewhat novel one. Here’s […]
I just completed Trine, a side-scrolling video game from Frozenbyte. It revolves around three characters: a thief–clearly the most useful of the characters, a wizard and a warrior. Through some evil magic they are combined into one, so you can use only one particular character at once. The cool thing about this is that the […]
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