0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/11/2015
Guardians of the Galaxy showed that the Marvel name and brand is a powerful one with audiences. Even though the general public wasn’t familiar with the likes of Star-Lord, Drax and Rocket Raccoon, people trusted that a Marvel film would be good and packed theaters in response. (Saturday Night Live even created a skit making fun […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/10/2015
When he’s not playing Marvel’s Norse God of Thunder, Chris Hemsworth is making some intriguing career choices, taking supporting roles in upcoming comedies. On Wednesday, director Paul Feig announced that Hemsworth was joining the cast of his Ghostbusters reboot, playing the receptionist for the ghost-hunting foursome of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate […]
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Like virtually everyone else who writes about movies, I joined the mob that attacked Cameron Crowe a couple of weeks ago for his latest movie, Aloha. I knew what the critical consensus was leading up to the film’s release. The movie critic hive mind can be a powerful beast. Some writers don’t want to stray from […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/9/2015
Season two of Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix was expected to include some new characters — especially the more famous ones from comic book storylines, such as Matt Murdock’s one-time lover Elektra and the assassin Bullseye. But the first season of Daredevil established a dark, gritty world with street-level vigilantes taking on human traffickers, drug dealers […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/8/2015
One of the more intriguing sci-fi novels of the past couple of years was Andy Weir’s The Martian. The story follows astronaut Mark Watney, who’s stranded on Mars after his NASA crew has to abort its mission due to a dangerous storm. What set Weir’s novel apart and made it such an intriguing read was […]
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Spy comes at the perfect time on the movie calendar. It hasn’t been a good time at the cinema in recent weeks, with either disasters or disappointments. Entourage was fun, but I’d say it was more of a 100-minute inside joke than actually funny. A truly funny summer comedy is always welcome among all of […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/6/2015
Hannibal is one of my favorite shows on television, and it’s perplexing to me that I haven’t written about it yet. That might be partly because it feels like a hidden pleasure that I only talk about with a couple of friends. The show — which portrays the early exploits of everyone’s favorite serial-killing, cannibalistic psychiatrist before […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/5/2015
Monday was a bad day. Not because it was my first day back after a week in Hawaii or because my sunburn still hurt or because June Gloom has hit SoCal once again and I miss the sun. No, it was because E.L. James announced via Instagram an upcoming release of a new 50 Shades […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/4/2015
Perhaps one of the weirder story developments during Seinfeld‘s nine-season run was the decision to kill off George Costanza’s fiancée, Susan Ross, at the end of season seven due to licking toxic glue on cheap wedding invitations. Over the years, there have been rumors that the character was written out of the show because the […]
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Stephen Colbert debuts as the new host of The Late Show on Sept. 8. We haven’t seen much from the comedian since he signed off from The Colbert Report just before last Christmas. However, Colbert’s few public appearances revealed that he grew a beard, a magnificent coat of surprisingly frosty white hair that made him […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/3/2015
With the huge success of Furious 7, James Wan showed he could successfully direct a blockbuster franchise movie. Prior to that, the filmmaker was primarily known for horror fare such as Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring. But he has now obviously moved up the studio totem pole after making a film that’s drawn $1.4 billion […]
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During its eight-season run on HBO, Entourage always seemed to be a show that people loved or hated. Those who enjoyed the show reveled in the male fantasy it depicted. Four loyal friends stuck with each other, regardless of how much their lives changed when one cashed in the lottery ticket of movie stardom. And […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/2/2015
Dwayne Johnson is probably at the height of his powers right now. He’s coming off a $53 million opening for San Andreas, the best showing for a movie that he headlined himself. Later this month, his HBO series Ballers will premiere. The Rock is riding the wave of that success and seems ready to test […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 6/1/2015
With the current box office success of Mad Max: Fury Road and the overall popularity of comic book superhero movies, it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s renewed interest in the failed 2007 Justice League movie to be made by director George Miller. If you’re unfamiliar with this, the project was titled Justice League: […]
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Monday afternoon, Vanity Fair magazine released an image of its July 2015 cover, featuring Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce). Here is the cover photo by Annie Leibovitz. The cover story is written by Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights), who was given “unfettered access” to Jenner, according to Vanity Fair, detailing “the tensions, trauma and […]
