0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/10/2015
Releasing a suspense thriller in August didn’t seem to bode well for The Gift, which looked as if it could be a Fatal Attraction or Single White Female type of film that might get chewed up against the likes of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Fantastic Four, or the upcoming Straight Outta Compton and The Man […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/7/2015
I’m not sure any recent movie is more difficult to judge purely on its own merits than Fantastic Four. Devoted Marvel Comics fans, who grew up reading the adventures of Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and Sue and Johnny Storm, probably won’t like this 2015 version because it barely resembles what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire on 8/6/2015
When Rare Replay was announced at E3, there were plenty of reasons to be excited. The compilation of 30 games featured some of the best Rare titles including Battletoads, Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Banjo Kazooie. Not only did you get all of the classic games, but the price was surprisingly reasonable at just 29.99 […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire on 8/5/2015
The first official trailer for Deadpool has been released, after grainy cellphone footage of the project blew up the internet following Comic-Con. That leaked footage brought massive amounts of hype, but wasn’t initially shown to fans online because
0 comments by Joe Mags
(This post contains spoilers. You can read my thoughts on previous episodes of True Detective, season two, here.) In the wake of last week’s shuffling madness, I finally watched Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Unmistakably an influence on Nic Pizzolatto’s second season of True Detective, Kubrick’s colossal nightmare-fantasy — his final film — has been popping up online quite […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/4/2015
We got our six seasons. So will we ever get that movie? After being canceled by NBC, Community had a sixth season on Yahoo! Screen. But the show’s run is over, according to star Joel McHale, who dropped the bad news in an interview with Washington, D.C.’s Metro Weekly. Is it getting another season on […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
No one needs to know my politics or the politics of any other person who writes about sports and entertainment for a living. That said, I feel compelled to say that after once being a rabid political partisan, I stepped out of a dualistic “Democrat-or-Republican” mindset at the start of this century. I dropped out […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/3/2015
OK, it’s probably true that we’ve given an undue amount of attention to Olivia Munn’s upcoming role as telekinetic ninja assassin Psylocke in next summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse. But she has geek cred from her days co-hosting Attack of the Show, and going from breakout roles like Sloan Sabbith on HBO’s The Newsroom to a superhero […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Ripping on season two of True Detective has become popular sport in pop culture. (Though there’s still hope the series will redeem itself in its final episodes.) But what do the original TD duo of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle think of Nic Pizzolatto’s sophomore TV effort? Or maybe more specifically, what does Hart think […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
I wasn’t really a Prince fan growing up. My cousin used to torment me by playing “Little Red Corvette.” I didn’t really become one until the Batman/Graffiti Bridge one-two punch in 1989 and 1990. Then I got deep. Used to buy records on the day of release. Read a lot of Uptown magazine. I was […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/31/2015
I don’t think any film series in recent memory continues to baffle and impress me more than the Mission: Impossible franchise. When the first one was released in 1996, even with Tom Cruise starring, it seemed to be jumping on the wave of movies adapting popular or cult TV shows. But with Cruise’s star power […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/30/2015
After Daredevil rolled out on Netflix April 10, the question became when we would see the next series from Marvel on the streaming outlet. Though the next program, Jessica Jones, was being filmed, no premiere date or schedule had been announced. However, those plans became a bit clearer with this week’s Television Critics Association press […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/29/2015
Television executives are always looking for new trends and so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that transgender shows are popping up all across the cable landscape. And this summer, Big Brother features its first transgender contestant, Audrey Middleton. It’s not the first time we’ve seen transgender characters on TV. Laverne Cox has wowed us […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire on 7/28/2015
I’m not going to bullshit you, I’m a huge fan of John Green. I own and have enjoyed all of his books, and think he’s a a master of young adult fiction. When his last book, The Fault in Our Stars, was adapted to film, I was surprised with how well it translated to the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/27/2015
Perhaps you remember Will Ferrell hijacking the Cactus League back in March. During spring training, the comedian appeared in five games, fielded nine different positions and played for 10 MLB teams altogether. Though the one-day tour was intended to raise awareness and money for charity, Ferrell’s stunt also provided material for a Funny or Die […]
