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 Jeremy Klumpp
In late January, Gawker posted an article containing a link to the leaked script for Quentin Tarantino’s stagecoach western The Hateful Eight. Tarantino allegedly only gave the script to a handful of people, and in a rage he decided to shelve the movie and sue Gawker. A few months later he decided to withdraw his […]
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 Pete Schwab
In 2000, Wizards of the Coast released the core rules for the then-new third version of Dungeons & Dragons. They chose to allow other companies to create content under a license with very liberal terms called the Open Game License (OGL for short). Third parties producing content for D&D was not a new concept, but […]
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, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
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 […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 7/25/2014
This week I returned to work after spending the past 10 days at home on paternity leave after my wife gave birth to our second child — another son who has a head full of black hair, and the jaundice that also afflicted his older brother. My life during these 10 days was spent playing […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 7/24/2014
Roger Corman has given a lot of actors and directors their Hollywood breaks, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jack Nicholson. Now Corman can add Conan O’Brien to that list after O’Brien premiered his entire two minute cameo from Corman’s Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda last night on Conan: We’ll have to wait to see if how […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James was a hugely popular novel, originating as Twilight fan fiction before being repurposed into more original material. It first sold as an e-book and was then published by Vintage Books, going on to top best-seller lists and sell millions of copies. The natural next step was to adapt […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel
Starting last week, “Weird Al Yankovic” vaulted back in to our hearts, releasing a new album and the brilliant music videos that made him famous. Mandatory Fun is his first album in three years and does not disappoint. We wanted to do a ranking of the best Weird Al parodies to date, but literally everyone has […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/23/2014
Happy Batman Day! Did you know July 23 is Batman Day? Why DC Comics decided to declare this particular day a celebration of the Caped Crusader’s 75th anniversary is a bit unclear. The character’s comic book debut in Detective Comics No. 27 had a cover date of May 1939. But hey, what else is going on […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
In a security climate when the size of a lotion or shampoo bottle is monitored closely by TSA screeners before getting on board a flight, it’s amazing what people still think they can bring with them aboard a commercial airplane these days. Most people probably have a good idea of what sorts of items wouldn’t […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 7/22/2014
We’re 10 days away from the Aug. 1 release of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a bold swing that could either be disastrous or a surprising hit. The promotional machine for the movie is kicking in hard. The cast — Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel — appeared Monday night […]
