0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/20/2015
Over the past few days, pop culture has been hit by a wave of blockbuster movie trailers. One of them (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) worked magnificently, while another (Fantastic Four) was a pleasant surprise. And a long-awaited preview (Batman v Superman) was somewhat puzzling. Riding that wave is the latest trailer for Jurassic World, […]
0 comments by Tyler Lyon
In director Noah Baumbach’s latest movie, While We’re Young, an older couple Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) meets a younger pair, Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). Jamie and Darby are what most would call hipsters. At one point in the film, Josh and Jamie both express their appreciation for a commercial jingle […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Perhaps there’s reason to be optimistic about this August’s Fantastic Four after all. Fox’s reboot of the Marvel franchise has had to swim against a current of negative publicity and a perception that director Josh Trank didn’t really want to make a superhero film, preferring to veer away from the property’s comic book origins. The […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/18/2015
On Thursday, a trailer for one of geek culture’s most anticipated movies, 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hit the internet. Unfortunately, it was a pirated version of the preview that leaked out, seemingly recorded on a cellphone with blurry visuals and muddy audio. The video was apparently recorded somewhere in Brazil, as indicated by the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/17/2015
Everyone watched the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens released on Thursday. Even Matthew McConaughey in space. And he reacted the way many of us did, especially after seeing Han Solo and Chewbacca again: He was reduced to tears. Wait, was that McConaughey or his character Cooper in a scene from Interstellar? Hey, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
Last year, around the time of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, I wrote about German music pioneers Kraftwerk, and dubbed them the “rock hall’s greatest omission.” I based this on their influence on not only electronica and techno music, but on music as a whole since their debut in the early […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/16/2015
With the “Star Wars Celebration” event being held in Anaheim through this weekend (April 16-19), fans anticipated that a new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be released to kick off the festivities. Sure enough, we do indeed have a new trailer. And it won’t just be seen in Anaheim. The second […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener
There’s always a bit of trepidation when a great show reaches its end point, a worry that somehow the finale won’t live up to expectations and the show’s entire run will be left tainted as a result. It’s happened before to great FX shows — Sons of Anarchy comes to mind — so when it […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/15/2015
On Tuesday, a cell phone video of actor Dennis Quaid supposedly losing his shit at a director and film crew made its way around the internet. Did we have another blow-up by an entitled actor on a film set, like Christian Bale’s infamous tirade during the filming of Terminator: Salvation? Shortly after the video was […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
When reports surfaced Michelle MacLaren was leaving the upcoming Wonder Woman (2017) film, it seemed like a devastating blow for the franchise. MacLaren seemed like a perfect fit for the project. Her television résumé was impressive, as she directed some of the best episodes of heavy-hitting TV series Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. There was every reason to believe McLaren […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/14/2015
Give Jimmy Kimmel, his writers and producers some credit. As a Disney property, the ABC late-night show already had an in with getting the cast of the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron as guests. But Jimmy Kimmel Live did something much more fun and memorable than simply have the six superhero actors on the couch, […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
Futurama wouldn’t die. The show had an infamous roller coaster run which lasted six full seasons** and four full-length movies, all of which aired on two different networks spanning almost 15 years. The series was canceled and brought back from the dead. It had concluded multiple times. There was no reason Futurama should have finished as strongly as […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/13/2015
Next summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse surely won’t be the last X-Men movie made. The series is a big moneymaker for Fox, and superhero franchises are huge for movie studios right now. But director Bryan Singer and producers are adding characters and casting actors as if this is the last time we’ll ever see Marvel’s mighty mutants […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
A new trailer for Terminator: Genisys has dropped and it has revealed a huge plot twist. If you’d like to avoid that spoiler, don’t read the next paragraph. [SPOILER ALERT] The new trailer flips the old Terminator story you love on its face. Not only does the spot suggest a timeline that is more widely […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Even if Sylvester Stallone is done making Rocky movies, he’s not finished with playing Rocky Balboa. However, Rocky and Stallone presumably aren’t the focus in Creed. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, this spinoff from the Rocky franchise focuses on Adonis Creed, the son of Balboa’s rival and friend Apollo Creed, who is following in […]
