0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 10/5/2016
This past weekend, Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg finished second at the movie box office with their true-life story about the 2010 oil-rig explosion off the Louisiana coast, Deepwater Horizon. As many of you likely know, the two are teaming up again for another film based on true events: the Boston Marathon bombing drama […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/22/2016
With only one episode left in season two (and what was originally intended as the second half of a two-part season finale), we probably shouldn’t have expected Mr. Robot to answer all of its lingering questions and tie up each of its loose ends. But what’s been a frustrating, slow-burning mind trip of a season […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/20/2016
Do you remember the BMW Films ad campaign from 2001 and 2002? Online action films selling cars! The series of eight short films was titled The Hire, starring Clive Owen as “The Driver,” with each installment directed by a top-list filmmaker. Each short involved Owen as a mercenary hired to deliver or transport a person or […]
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A sci-fi blockbuster starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt? No wonder that Passengers is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. But other than two of the culture’s biggest movie stars in outer space, in a film directed by Academy Award nominee Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) with a script by Jon Spaihts […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/17/2016
Oliver Stone and Edward Snowden seem like an ideal match. The director is (perhaps unfairly) generally known for his conspiracy theories and wackier takes on history, demonstrated in movies such as JFK, Nixon and W. And Snowden is an infamous whistleblower whose dismay and distrust of a government he once fiercely believed in has made him […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/15/2016
Mr. Robot has tested the patience of viewers in its second season, taking the audience on a mind trip for much of the season and dangling the promise of a payoff. Eventually, we’ll be rewarded for sticking with this journey and the endgame showrunner Sam Esmail is working toward will become apparent, right? Are you […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/14/2016
One of the tidbits that movie reporters and bloggers learned when visiting the set of the upcoming Justice League in London is that Batman will wear more than one suit in the film. That might cause some Batfans to have bad flashbacks to the Joel Schumacher Batman movies, in which the Caped Crusader donned some […]
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After creating some of the most iconic superheroes of our pop culture, Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee is going to become an action hero in his own big-screen story. At 93 years of age, he’s probably too old to portray himself, so someone else will have to play the creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/12/2016
It’s surely not a coincidence that Warner Brothers released Sully on the same weekend as the 15th anniversary of 9/11. The parallels between a plane crashing in New York City, terrified passengers and citizenry, and the efforts of the first responders on the scene are both uncomfortable to watch and inspiring. Director Clint Eastwood draws […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/8/2016
With three episodes left this season, Mr. Robot is finally unleashing its finishing kick. Season two has largely been inside Elliot’s head, as he tried to sort out his head while in prison. What he didn’t consider, however, is that the world would go on without him and the people he loves would have to […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/2/2016
Producer Greg Berlanti is developing a show based on DC Comics’ first African American superhero Black Lightning, but it won’t be the first time the character has been seen on television. No, we’re not talking about cartoons such as Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Young Justice: Invasion or DC Nation’s animated shorts. How about […]
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We might be on the verge of peak superhero TV, if that hurdle hasn’t already been cleared. But producer Greg Berlanti apparently doesn’t think so. The man responsible for Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl, along with his team of producers, are practically a superhero TV studio, creating content almost entirely for […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/1/2016
After last week’s focus on Darlene and the rest of fsociety, Mr. Robot tried to return to normal in episode nine, “init_5.fve.” Or whatever passes for normal in this mind trip of a season. Elliot re-enters the real world after serving 86 days in prison, getting out early because of the 5/9 Hack affecting the records […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/30/2016
For many fans and moviegoers, a natural question to ask while watching Captain America: Civil War this spring might have been “Where’s Thor?” The Norse God of Thunder surely could have helped resolve the conflict between Captain America, Iron Man and the various Avengers each of them recruited to a side in a dispute over […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/29/2016
Ben Affleck decided to have some fun with the comic book/superhero movie fanboy internet Monday morning. No, it wasn’t another rant about Roger Goodell and DeflateGate. Nor was it an appeal for a charity fundraise initiative. No, Affleck essentially lit up the Bat Signal for fans looking for news on his standalone Batman film. Cinema’s […]
