I am not a big fan of junk food, or junk TV, yet when I heard that the Season 7, the last, of “Weeds is on Netflix, I dived right in (I’m not kidding. I found out yesterday, and am already at episode seven, just about midway). There’s something about “Weeds” that just works. The […]
“Seven Psychopaths” stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken. It was directed by Martin McDonagh, who also did “In Bruges,” which I have heard is a very entertaining, though I have yet to see it. Though not billed as such, “Seven Psychopaths” feels to me like a must-see film, bordering on […]
It needs to be said that I have never been a huge fan of DC Comics. Despite enjoying the adventures of Green Lantern and Batman when I was younger, I always preferred Marvel overall. That being said, I don’t want their films to fail because if enough superhero films fail, it threatens all superhero films […]
I know it’s a bit early, but mark in your calendars that the sequel to Marvel’s “The Avengers”–currently known as The Avengers 2–will be released May 1, 2015. And in other Marvel-related news, according to Superherohype James Gunn is the front runner to direct “Guardians Of The Galaxy.” I am not quite sure that I […]
I was over at WorstPreviews yesterday, and they had an article saying that the meeting between Marvel and Fox execs was over a co-financing deal for a “Daredevil” reboot. This sounds to me like either deliberate misdirection, or nonsense (though on whose part, I can’t say). The problem for me is: How can Twentieth Century […]
I recently read that Breck Eisner is going to make a movie based on Stretch Armstrong, a stretchable (i.e., the name), pliable, and extremely bendable toy from Hasbro (the same company that created the Transformers and G.I. Joe). I remember playing with one when I was a kid. I also remember being very interested in […]
Thomas Jane strikes me as a really neat guy, mainly because he seems to care about things. This interests me because, for afar, it often seems that many actors do what they can to isolate themselves from their fans to such a degree that they appear as cyphers. Not Jane. He’s also not afraid to […]
The Fixx’s first new studio album in nine years, “Beautiful Friction,” will be out July 17 though Amazon has samples of many of the tracks, and I have to say that it’s definitely a departure for them. I am also glad to see that the band has gone back to George Underwood, who did the […]
Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” appears to be opening strong overseas–in India it premiered bigger than Marvel’s “The Avengers”–but this has to be tempered by the fact that other movies that appeared strong because of international profits have gone on to underperform at the American box office. Like Peter Berg’s “Battleship,” for instance. So at […]
Sam Mendes‘ “Skyfall” teaser is up, and while I like my Bond with more gizmos than this current incarnation (for my money, Pierce Brosnan‘s Bond struck an almost perfect balance between technology and testosterone, with the exception of “Die Another Day,” which almost played like a parody of a James Bond film), there is something […]
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