0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/28/2014
After a few days of false alarms — did you buy the fake (though quite well done) trailer that was circulating or were you Rick-rolled? — the real, official teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now online. Fans in 30 selected markets will get to see the trailer on screen over the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/26/2014
John Oliver and Last Week Tonight are on hiatus for the rest of the year, returning to HBO on Feb. 8, 2015. But he’s still throwing us a few morsels via the show’s YouTube channel. What better time to feed an appetite than just before Thanksgiving? Appropriate to the holiday when we’re all feasting on […]
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Apparently, we can’t get enough of Peter Pan. Next week (Thursday, Dec. 4), NBC will broadcast its musical, Peter Pan Live!, starring Allison Williams in the title role and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook. (You can view a trailer here.) However, the boy who wouldn’t grow up gets the big-screen treatment next summer in Pan, directed […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/25/2014
Last weekend, Universal Studios released a teaser for the Jurassic World trailer. Not a teaser trailer, mind you, but something with clips from the full trailer. Like a 15-second trailer for a trailer. I resisted the impulse to check it out and post it here at The AP Party. Because, really, we have to draw the […]
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What is it like to be Stephen Hawking? How must it feel to be one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, yet be trapped in a body afflicted by motor neuron disease, leaving him almost completely paralyzed and unable to speak? The Theory of Everything won’t necessarily convey that experience to those […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/24/2014
It seems like there’s always a key role to cast in an upcoming superhero movie, whether it’s a good guy, bad guy or supporting character. But one of the biggest villains in X-Men comic book mythology now has an actor ready to take that role. Variety‘s Justin Kroll reports that Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis) […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/21/2014
Jimmy Kimmel putting celebrities on camera to read mean tweets about themselves is always reliable entertainment. The eighth edition of this series from ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live is no exception. This time around, Chris Pratt headlines the latest gaggle of celebrities asked to read insulting, mean-spirited attacks, written in 140 characters or less. Among the […]
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AMC has been stingy with details for its Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul. The network did announce that the show had been renewed for a second season roughly eight months before the first episode even airs. And a 10-second teaser featuring star Bob Odenkirk as the title character was released shortly thereafter. Other than […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/20/2014
Anyone who knows me personally, follows me on social media or is familiar with my writing here at The AP Party probably won’t be surprised that my favorite new TV show of the fall is CW’s The Flash. Given my love of comic books, superheroes and geek culture, you might think I enjoy this show […]
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After getting back on the pop culture radar with 2005’s Sin City and reminding people what a great actor he could be in 2008’s The Wrestler (a performance which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination), Mickey Rourke didn’t quite have the comeback or renaissance that many expected for him. Maybe that had something to […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/19/2014
Six women have now publicly accused Bill Cosby of raping them. This is a story that was rumbling around the underbelly of news and pop culture, perhaps because it was so difficult and uncomfortable to discuss. But the situation ignited last weekend on NPR’s Weekend Edition when host Scott Simon directly asked Cosby about the allegations during […]
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When Saturday Night Live decided to move Cecily Strong from the “Weekend Update” desk back to the featured cast, it was a bit of a surprise. But joking about politics and current events got her one of the prized gigs for comedians these days. Strong will be the host and featured entertainer for the White […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 11/18/2014
Did the world really want a CGI-animated Peanuts movie? For that matter, was there an appetite for a Peanuts feature-length film? Our culture seemed pretty happy with old reruns of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas Charlie Brown specials every year on TV. But we’re getting The Peanuts Movie in 2015, animated through computer graphics instead of traditional […]
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Let’s get the big question out of the way first: Rosewater demonstrates that Jon Stewart can direct a film. Skepticism or doubt for the comedian and host of The Daily Show making a serious film about a journalist’s four-month imprisonment in Iran is understandable. As awards season ramps up, perhaps we’ll read some backbiting snark […]
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One of the more intriguing and mysterious characters in the Star Wars mythology of films is Boba Fett, the intergalactic bounty hunter who turned Han Solo over to Jabba the Hutt at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. The appeal of Boba Fett has been somewhat mystifying, as there was nothing in the films […]
