Marvel Studios is one of the most successful movie studios today, if profitable, reasonably-budgeted movies are the metric–if you consider a $200-250 million reasonable–so much so that some within Disney were rumored to be disappointed with the earnings of Avengers: Age of Ultron, which took in $1.4 billion at the box office–so if that’s a […]
I really want to like this movie. I have had a fascination with Egypt for most of my life–and the tattoo to prove it!–and want to really like it.
Looks okay, by which I mean those of us really into Harry Potter will probably have a good time. I was never particularly a fan–I don’t hate it, though I don’t particularly love it, either. In other words I don’t care one way or the other. Though Warner Bros is betting a lot that there are enough less apathetic movie […]
I refuse to leave out the colon in Star Trek: Beyond because while I am not a grammar nazi, it feels incomplete, as if someone hasn’t quite finished the sentence. “Star Trek Beyond….” Beyond what? Beyond Jupiter? Beyond Imagination? Beyond Getting On My Last Nerve!? Anyway, the trailer looks fun, and while I know that that’s a […]
The trailer for the latest chapter in the Independence Day saga dropped a few hours ago, and to be honest I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. Between Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and X-Men: Apocalypse there are some huge movies coming out relatively soon. There’s potentially millions riding on when these […]
Having seen 2014’s Godzilla–which as far as I am concerned will go down in history as the first Godzilla film where Godzilla was almost a tertiary character in its own movie–I was hoping that Toho Co. Ltd, the original creators of the radioactive-firebreathing lizard, would do a much better job (and the less I say about […]
Yesterday I read an interesting article from Albert Ching, Managing Editor at Comic Book Resources, where he explains why he hopes that the actor cast as Iron Fist in Marvel Television/Netflix’s upcoming series isn’t Asian. And I think that I get it why an Asian person might have a problem with an Asian person as the lead […]
I have to admit act for a while I was a bit nervous. From rumors that Marvel Television was ditching Iron Fist and replacing him with Moon Knight (Moon Knight is pretty awesome, by the way, though he lacks a prior relationship with Luke Cage which would be essential to the narrative) to they were going […]
This teaser aired during an episode of Gotham, and I’m sorry, but I can’t stop looking at how absurdly fake Batman’s triceps look. I know that actors in these types of movies traditionally wear muscle suits, but my god that does not look even close to real.
I find Hollywood a fascinating place, though perhaps that’s because my view is a distant one. Never mind the scandals, or whom is sleeping with whom–though that’s interesting too, though only in a cursory manner. What I find infinitely more fascinating is how is it that decisions are made. And while I doubt that it has […]
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