0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/17/2014
CM Punk has gotten an itch for writing comic books, it seems. The former WWE star and future UFC attraction will be following up his story for Marvel’s Thor Annual #1 in Feb. 2015 with some work for the competition, contributing to an anthology titled Strange Sports Stories for DC Comics’ Vertigo line. Not much is […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/16/2014
If you remain in denial that Mad Men is coming to an end when the second half of its seventh and final season airs on AMC in Spring 2015, key cast members joining other shows confirms that it will soon be time to move on. Christina Hendricks — best known as Joan Harris, an account […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/15/2014
If you haven’t seen 22 Jump Street, you might want to avoid the rest of this post. Or at least the next three paragraphs. And maybe the embedded video. Better not look at its title either. You did? Oh well — it’s not the most integral story point of the movie. But just in case: SPOILER […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/12/2014
FX’s Fargo was one of the best TV shows of 2014, in my opinion, which amps up the anticipation for a second season. Showrunner Noah Hawley envisioned the series as an anthology with completely different stories from season to season. So we won’t be seeing the further adventures of Sheriff Molly Solverson. But we will be […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/10/2014
“My world is fire and blood.” The first line of the trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road is cryptic, but probably describes Max Rockatansky’s existence perfectly. It certainly sums up the glorious anarchy displayed in this two-and-a-half minute preview of director George Miller’s sequel/reboot (“rebootquel”?) of his “Mad Max” trilogy that made Mel Gibson an […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/9/2014
If an earthquake struck Los Angeles — a massive earthquake that laid waste to the city — wouldn’t you want The Rock to be the one to save you? That appears to be the premise of San Andreas, in which Dwayne Johnson stars as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot trying to find and save his daughter […]
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Maybe the civil unrest in Ferguson is just too painful a topic to approach, even for a comedy show like Saturday Night Live that’s supposed to be unafraid of mining difficult topics for humor. That could be why a funny sketch depicting the misery a local St. Louis TV morning show experiences in trying to […]
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As our usual Saturday Night Live recapper Jeremy Klumpp wrote two weeks ago, SNL seems to be getting better with each subsequent show this season. That trend continued with the latest show. I’d argue there wasn’t a weak show in the bunch, though some were obviously stronger than others. Even the final half-hour of the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/8/2014
If you saw any people beginning their week wandering around looking around as if they had lost something, it’s very possible that these poor victims are trying to find the two hours they lost by watching Discovery Channel’s Eaten Alive on Sunday night. When the concept (televised stunt) was announced a month ago, we were on board. A […]
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CW’s The Flash has already gotten cute by casting actors from the 1990 CBS series in supporting or guest roles. Barry Allen’s father is played by John Wesley Shipp, who portrayed the hero 24 years ago. Amanda Pays, who played scientist Tina McGee (and Allen love interest), will be a character with the same name but […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/4/2014
Most of the talk with Marvel has to do with their upcoming movies. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Captain America: Civil War. Black Panther. Benedict Cumberbatch was finally (officially) announced as Doctor Strange. Marvel also has some TV action going on too. But while Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter are interesting enough, what the studio has coming up […]
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Is the newest installment of the “Terminator” franchise, titled Terminator: Genisys, one of the most anticipated films of 2015 or among its most dreaded? Personally, I fall into the latter category. For one thing, look how “Genisys” is spelled in that title. It makes my eyes twitch. I loved the first two Terminator films and even […]
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Early Thursday morning in the U.S. — but during the evening in the UK — the name of the new James Bond film was announced in dramatic fashion on stage at Pinewood Studios. The next Bond movie, the 24th in the series, is titled Spectre. For long time fans of Agent 007, that holds some significance. […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/2/2014
Unless you’re a diehard DC Comics fan, you may have no idea what the Suicide Squad is. But Warner Brothers is making sure you’ll be interested in a Suicide Squad movie by putting together a killer group of actors to play this assembly of supervillains. As first reported by Variety, Will Smith headlines the cast, giving Suicide […]
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With the raging success of The Walking Dead, AMC understandably wants to keep that business going for as long as possible. In September, the network ordered a pilot for a spinoff show, written by the source graphic novel’s creator Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson (Sons of Anarchy), focusing on survivors of the zombie apocalypse in […]
