0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 5/4/2015
Warner Brothers and DC Comics apparently didn’t want Marvel Studios to grab all of the comic book superhero movie headlines coming out of the weekend. As Avengers: Age of Ultron finished off an estimated $187.7 million gross at the box office, director David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch) tweeted out a photo of his cinematic supergroup […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 5/1/2015
Would it be a ridiculous mess of hyperbole to call Avengers: Age of Ultron the best superhero movie ever made? Or is raising the bar exactly what was expected in following up 2012’s The Avengers, which changed everything that seemed possible for these sorts of blockbuster films? Is the sequel better than the original? Yes. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/30/2015
If you’ve been hoping for the entire run of Seinfeld to become available on Netflix, we’ve got bad news for you. That’s not happening. Not with Amazon Prime either. And fortunately, not on iTunes (which I’m saying because you’d likely have to pay per episode that way). But the legendary sitcom will soon be available […]
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The cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron have been doing a lot interviews to promote the film’s May 1 release. The sheer number of sit-downs and the grind of doing one after the other has led to uncomfortable moments and controversy. But it’s also difficult for movie journalists to stand out among the blizzard of publicity […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/29/2015
Is Hawkeye like the Aquaman of The Avengers, the guy whom everyone snickers about because his contribution to the superhero team seems minimal? All Aquaman does is talk to fish, right? And all Hawkeye does is aim a bow and arrow alongside Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor. Even Sesame Street made fun of him! […]
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Evidently, some people were underwhelmed by the teaser trailer for season two of HBO’s True Detective. I don’t share that feeling, but I can understand if there was some sentiment that the preview was somber, largely because of the song chosen to score it. What was that song, by the way? Where can it be […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/28/2015
Wrestler-turned-MMA-fighter CM Punk has been dipping his toe into the world of comic books, writing one-off gigs with Marvel (Thor Annual #1) and DC Comics (Strange Sports Stories). Marvel was apparently impressed enough with Punk’s work to give him a brand-new ongoing series, starring one of its most popular characters from the movies. Punk will […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/27/2015
David Letterman doesn’t have much time left behind the host desk at The Late Show (18 days, to be exact), so every guest he has from here on out is likely to be the last time he talks with that particular person in that setting. On Friday, Jerry Seinfeld was the Late Show guest and […]
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As I was watching Ex Machina, I wondered why it often seemed as if stories about artificial intelligence (A.I.) went in either one of two directions: 1) The A.I. is going to advance past human intelligence and render us obsolete or 2) The A.I. is going to fill some sort of companionship void, causing a […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/25/2015
It’s been difficult to take Johnny Depp seriously as an actor in recent years, with the goofy roles that he’s taken in films like The Lone Ranger, Into the Woods and Mortdecai. Not to mention his continual cashing in of paychecks as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. (And really, can […]
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How could Jared Leto top the performances of Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson as The Joker? Obviously, we have no idea as Leto’s role as Batman’s arch-enemy in 2016’s Suicide Squad has yet to be seen and is currently being filmed. But after director David Ayer released the first photo of Leto in his full […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/24/2015
The end of Parks and Recreation does not mean the end of Aziz Ansari doing comedy on your television. Ansari has already had success with comedy specials on Netflix (the latest being “Buried Alive“), which apparently compelled the network to greenlight a 10-episode series starring the comedian and executive produced by former Parks and Rec […]
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Among the many revelations from last year’s Sony hack was that the studio had no idea what to do with the Spider-Man franchise after the perceived failure of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. But one of the ideas proposed is going to become a reality, involving two of Hollywood’s currently hottest filmmakers. Phil Lord and Chris Miller […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/22/2015
Robert Downey Jr. is not here to talk about the past. Not in an attempt to deny embarrassing, incriminating misdeeds, as Mark McGwire infamously did in a 2007 hearing before a Congressional panel. But because a reporter for Britain’s Channel 4 News tried to ask him about his personal life during a promotional interview for Avengers: […]
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It’s been nearly two weeks since Marvel rolled out its bold experiment on Netflix, telling a superhero story in 13 episodes with Daredevil. The show has been a hit with fans and critics, largely because it succeeded in breaking away from what’s become a familiar formula. Daredevil had to do something different to stand out, which […]
