Happy New Year to everyone, and I hope for the best for you and your loved ones. That being said, is there nothing that Steven Spielberg isn’t involved with? I just finished watching “True Grit”–a little bit choppy in the editing department, but otherwise very entertaining–when I noticed that Steven Spielberg was listed as an […]
I had no idea that the rights were being contested, but according to the New York Times, Marvel Entertainment owns the rights to the character, which were being challenged by Gary Friedrich, a freelance writer. It’s probably not a coincidence that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is coming out February 17 of next year.
Tucker & Dale vs Evil, currently streaming on Netflix, is a horror/comedy with more levels than similar films. It can be taken as a cautionary tale about the perils of prejudging people, or if that goes over your head, then perhaps a story about the perils of making hair-trigger assumptions. Or you can take it […]
The first trailer below my first two paragraphs is the official Russian trailer for “The Avengers.” For some reason the characters seem more rounded (as rounded as one can get in two minutes and 13 seconds) and less like they were just posing. It strikes me as odd because I would think that more Americans […]
I have never been a fan of Fred Armisen, of Saturday Night Live and Portlandia fame. Appearance-wise he’s ethnically vague enough that he can play Barack Obama one moment, and a white person the next. The problem is that I don’t find him particularly funny. That is, till I saw this video, courtesy of the […]
I don’t think that I posted this, so here goes. I do so not because I expect the film to be that good–I don’t–but because I dig the genre. That being said, how is it that Selene was able to be captured by humans? If you take a look at the trailer, she makes short […]
“Tintin,” while perhaps not for everyone, is so well-done that the occasional misstep is easily forgotten. I must admit that I went into “The Adventures of Tintin” with somewhat low expectatations, due less to the input of Steven Spielberg, (director) Peter Jackson (producer) and Steven Moffat (Dr. Who, Sherlock), Edgar Wright (Shawn of the Dead, […]
After the numerous problems in 2011 that Netflix has encountered under the leadership of Reed Hastings, it’s comforting to know that his stock option allowance has been slashed for 2012. Sure, that means that the value of his stock options has dropped to $1.5 million, but seeing that his reimbursement has fallen to that amount, I […]
According to Deadline, Alan Taylor, of HBO’s “A Games of Thrones,” will be helming Marvel’s “Thor 2” after Patty Jenkins left the project for “creative reasons.” “Creative reasons” is in quotes because whatever was the real reason that Jenkins left the project, I am not sure that creativity had anything to do with it.
I visit my parent’s regularly during the holidays, and this one is no exception. I was channel surfing, when I came upon Tron: Legacy on Starz: Edge. Seeing that I have seen the film at least seven or eight times in various forms of media, I figured that I would just watch the special effects […]
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