0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 10/5/2016
To this point, very little has been known about a third film featuring Wolverine, the clawed, feral mutant played by Hugh Jackman. (He’s also appeared as Wolverine in five X-Men films.) Speculation has been that the story will follow an older version of the character, presumably based on the “Old Man Logan” comic book arc […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
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 Sean Keeley on 10/4/2016
A recent trailer premiere seemed to confirm two absolute truths about the future of Hollywood blockbusters. Number one, much like cockroaches, Pirates of the Caribbean movies will outlive us all. Javier Bardem is destined to play villains for the rest of his career. True, Bardem is a great villain. His portrayal of Anton Chirgurh in No […]
0 comments by David Lauterbach on 10/3/2016
After years of production delays, teases, trailers, and anticipation, HBO’s Westworld has finally arrived and the first episode delivered on the hype. Westworld was originally supposed to premiere in 2015, but after a lot of off-screen issues, HBO was forced to push back the premiere to Oct. 2, 2016. Reviews flooded in praising the premiere as […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 10/2/2016
Even in a bad summer movie season — and by all accounts, this summer was one of the worst — an actor becomes a breakout star. This past summer, Margot Robbie starred in two of the bigger disappointments of the season, The Legend of Tarzan and Suicide Squad, and while her turn as Jane received […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 9/30/2016
The season premiere of Saturday Night Live arrives just over a month before election day. Both campaigns are setting the stage for what should be an eventful, strange, and wild month of campaign stops and debates that should easily fuel SNL with enough material to make it must-see TV through the first few episodes of […]
0 comments by David Lauterbach
After years of hype, production delays, and curiosity, HBO’s Westworld is slated to debut on Sunday, Oct. 2 with a star-studded cast as well as one confusing and mind-bending storyline. Westworld is a science fiction thriller based on a 1973 film of the same name and book by Michael Crichton. The show is headlined by an incredible cast that includes Anthony Hopkins, […]
0 comments by Sean Keeley on 9/27/2016
If I simply described the premise of Fleabag, you’d probably feel like it’s not going to work. That has less to do with the show itself and more to do with every American TV show you’ve seen try to do it before now. Fleabag is not American, even though it’s an Amazon “original series.” It’s British, […]
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 […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
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 Liam McGuire on 9/19/2016
The Primetime Emmy Awards wrapped its 68th installment on Sunday, as many of Hollywood’s television elite (sans Maggie Smith) gathered to honor the best performances of the past television season. Jimmy Kimmel was on hand to host the evening, doing a commendable job delivering an entertaining Emmys broadcast. Here are the moments that stood out from Sunday’s […]
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 […]
