Gavin Hood gets a bad rap. The South African director made “Totsi” in 2005, which he won an Academy Award for. His biggest film – in terms of budget – was “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which didn’t get any Oscars. Mainly because it was pretty bad. Though can you blame him for that? He didn’t write […]
This trailer has been around for awhile, though I am just getting around to posting it. The reason why is that it seems terribly “Meh,” which shouldn’t be confused with ‘bad’ or uninteresting. It hits all the right notes, but doesn’t do anything that we haven’t seen many times before. I guess what I am […]
“Iron Man 3″ Is The Superhero Film Quentin Tarantino Would Direct, If He Had Directed A Superhero Film” The biggest problem I had with with Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man 2” was that the filmmakers decided to pit Iron Man against another armored character, just like in the first film (though there was also the way […]
Here’s the latest trailer – thanks Deadline – that came from the same place as the latest “Pacific Rim” trailer. Which is CinemaCon, not Comic-con, by the way. In it Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is doing all sorts of stuff, much of it involving either his claws, or a threatening grimace. We finally get some shots […]
There are rumors that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are going to be in ‘Avengers 2,’ though I have to ask why, especially when they’re two of the most uninteresting characters – in my not-so-humble opinion – in the Marvel canon. Why don’t they go in another direction, and leave the Maximoffs to Fox (both […]
I assume that this footage for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” is from the last Comic-con. It shows the most detail of the robots yet, as well as a bit of character development. And I can’t see why Michael Bay would ever be worried by ‘Rim,’ after all, if the trailers are to be believed, […]
Sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind.
Sorry about the odd spacing issues. I have been working with an app that publishes to WordPress called Metropolis, which seems to be doing funky things with my spacing. There has been much in the news recently about Zach Braff financing his latest film, “Wish I Was Here” through Kickstarter. This is an issue that’s […]
Guillermo Del Toro rocks. Why, you ask? Sure, it has more than a little to do with him being the director of “Hellboy,” “Hellboy 2,” “Blade 2,” The Devil’s Backbone,” Pan’s Labyrinth, among others. It also has to do with tenaciousness, and following your dreams, no matter how bleak things may seem (it also never […]
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