0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/8/2014
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a surprise success in the summer of 2012. Thanks to an outstanding cast including Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Dev Patel, a story about British retirees who move to what they believe is a luxury hotel in India, but is more of a work in progress grossed […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/7/2014
Perhaps you’ve found yourself wondering what might happen if Mad Men‘s Joan Holloway (Harris) was transported via time machine from the 1960s and the Sterling Cooper & Partners offices to 2014 and the work environment most of us are familiar with. If so, wonder no more. That is the exact premise of this Funny or […]
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Weird Al Yankovic is having a great year, with his new album Mandatory Fun hitting No. 1 on the Billboard charts and a whole new generation of fans appreciating his brilliant music parodies. (Or maybe it’s the same generation that grew up with Weird Al, except they have far more disposable income and time to […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/6/2014
According to director Joss Whedon, filming on Marvel’s next Avengers film, Avengers: Age of Ultron has wrapped. Whedon declared it so on Twitter himself. pic.twitter.com/0qag74HSWM — Joss Whedon (@josswhedon)
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/5/2014
We are getting very close to a world owned by Chris Pratt with the rest of us just living in it. Fresh off his movie’s $94 million opening weekend, the Guardians of the Galaxy star stopped by The Whoolywood Shuffle, hosted by DJ Whoo Kid and revealed some serious rapping skills. During the conversation, Pratt […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/4/2014
It’s about time for the Michael Keaton comeback, isn’t it? Or maybe we’re already in the midst of his revival with his role in Robocop and playing the lead in the upcoming Birdman. This seems to be a real meta turn for Keaton as Riggan Thomson, most famous for playing the superhero Birdman on screen, […]
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We are truly in the midst of a Mike Tyson renaissance. The former heavyweight champion released a memoir, Uninspired Truth, which inspired a one-man show that played on Broadway. Jamie Foxx has agreed to play him in a movie that could be in theaters within the next two to three years. Then there’s perhaps the […]
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Based on the trailers, ads and other promotions for the movie, Get On Up looked like it was going to make the big mistake many failed biopics do. In recent years, filmmakers tackling biographies have learned that it’s better to focus on a specific period of the subject’s life, rather than try to fit an […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/1/2014
Much of the advanced press and early reviews for Guardians of the Galaxy touted it as the best Marvel movie ever. Could it really be? I mean, that’s some damn serious praise. As I was watching this movie, I couldn’t help but think how much I would have loved it as a kid. It might […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/31/2014
For the second consecutive summer, an evening in late July was spent by millions watching a “Sharknado” movie on Syfy. Wednesday night was the premiere of Sharknado 2: The Second One. Not wanting to miss out on the same social media phenomenon as last year during Sharknado’s premiere, the people took to Twitter to snark […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/30/2014
Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Interstellar, has been somewhat of a mystery. What we’d known up until this point is that Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in the film. (Also, every Nolan film since Batman Begins must have Michael Caine. I think it’s actually a rule. So he’s in there too.) But the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/29/2014
Typically, farmers get a sample of the crops they harvest or the resulting product. So you might figure that cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast region have tried chocolate before. Isn’t chocolate just about everywhere? Of course, chocolate is a highly processed item. Cocoa beans are roasted, then ground up. Butter, milk and sugar (and […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/28/2014
The consensus seems to be that this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego was disappointing. Warner Bros. showed a teaser from Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and revealed Wonder Woman, but didn’t introduce the Justice League. Marvel shared footage from Ant-Man and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but didn’t announce any new projects, such as Doctor Strange […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/26/2014
We’ve already seen images of Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman from 2016’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. But other superheroes will appear in the movie (which may or may not be cameos) as Warner Brothers lays the foundation for its “Justice League” franchise. Most prominent among those is Wonder Woman, […]
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I haven’t seen every movie released this year, so I can’t say with certainty that Lucy is the worst movie of 2014. What I can say is that it’s probably the worst movie that I’ve seen this year. I’m sure there have actually been worse films produced this year, with no coherent story or directing […]
