0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/8/2016
After taking a week off during the New Year’s holiday, Serial is back with its fourth episode. Fortunately, it was only a one-week hiatus because if it had been longer, I wonder if people would have begun to realize that they didn’t miss the show that much. Did you think about Serial — or more […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/6/2016
Given its critical and box office success, a sequel to Creed was likely to happen. The story of Apollo Creed’s son chasing his father’s boxing legacy and training with Rocky Balboa ended with the promise of future visits with those characters. But after earning more than $100 million at the box office since its Nov. 25 release […]
:TORONTO, ON – NOVEMBER 08: Director Ryan Coogler surprises Canadian fans at a special advanced screening of ‘Creed’ at TIFF Bell Lightbox on November 8, 2015 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 1/5/2016
During the New Year’s holiday weekend, Creed passed $100 million at the box office. That presumably gives director Ryan Coogler some strong bargaining leverage with a studio for his next gig. Not only has Creed‘s success been enormously profitable for MGM (considering the movie’s budget was $35 million), but it solidly establishes Coogler as a filmmaker […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/30/2015
“The world is what you make of it, my friend. If it doesn’t fit, make alterations.” — Stella (Linda Hunt) This summer, while most people paid attention to the 30th anniversaries of Back to the Future and The Breakfast Club, the pearl milestone for Lawrence Kasdan’s postmodern Western, Silverado, was passed over. The second collaboration of […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/29/2015
Annual lists of “Best Albums” are a late-night toast to a long-lost art. The music industry is in constant flux, and the cohesive work known as “the album” has long been considered a casualty even as albums have limped their way from vinyl to cassette to CD to digital MP3, and back to vinyl again. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/28/2015
I’m not sure Youth is a great movie. But I’m certainly glad it exists and that we have an opportunity to watch it. What I don’t think can be argued is that director Paolo Sorrentino, along with cinematographer Luca Bigazzi made a film with beautiful and curious visuals. And I’m not just referring to the scene […]
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Marvel and Entertainment Weekly didn’t waste any time shaking off a Christmas hangover, providing geeks with a nice gift to begin the final week of 2015. The latest issue of the magazine features a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel’s Doctor Strange on its cover. Filming on Doctor Strange just began in November and […]
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You surely saw the new trailer for Deadpool released on Christmas Day. But maybe you weren’t checking your phone or tablet while spending time with family. Or you weren’t watching any of the NBA games on television, where the trailer made its broadcast debut. Or maybe it’s the Monday after Christmas, you’re back at work, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/26/2015
Three episodes into season two of Serial, I wonder if we’ve been thinking about this show all wrong. Or maybe I’ve been looking at it the wrong way. Season one was an investigation, essentially re-opening a 16-year-old murder case. Sarah Koenig and her staff were trying to determine if Adnan Syed was wrong convicted for […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/23/2015
When the U.S. economy began its collapse in the fall of 2008, I remember talking to someone who worked as a financial adviser. “The media’s blowing this whole thing out of proportion,” he said. “It’s not nearly as bad as they’re making it out to be.” I asked him if that’s what he really believed […]
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Going into Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the trailers, posters, toys and myriad promotional materials presented new characters and questions about them. Who was the Stormtrooper experiencing a moral and identity crisis, compelling him to change sides? Who was the scavenger on a desert planet living off scraps but feeling the pull of a greater […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/22/2015
The made-for-TV movie is a lost art form. (Thankfully so, due to the advent of the golden, #TooMuchTV era of excellent programming on the small screen.) But one of the classics has to be Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, if for no other reason than its title. The movie, which broadcast on NBC in […]
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How will director Richard Linklater follow up his critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated 2004 film Boyhood? Depending on how you look at it, he’s either going back to his roots or sort of continuing the story from his last movie. Everybody Wants Some looks like the spiritual sequel to 1983’s Dazed and Confused (which […]
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Captain America first appeared in comic books back in 1941, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Marvel Comics didn’t even exist back then. The company was known as Timely Comics. That makes 2016 the 75th anniversary for the character and as you can imagine, Marvel has a few things in mind to celebrate the occasion. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/18/2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is really good. If that’s the first thing you’re worried about, relax. Even if you searched your feelings and knew that this new movie couldn’t possibly be as bad as the three prequels, let go of that fear. Besides, you remember what fear leads to. If the second thing you’re worried […]
