REVIEW: Green Lantern the Animated Series
Warner Bros. was counting on a home run from the misfire that was the live action Green Lantern film. As that film was in production, the animation division was producing their first CGI-animated DC...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
I first read The Hobbit back in high school, during the tail end of J.R.R. Tolkien’s renaissance, sparked by the Ballantine Books editions that first popped up in the 1960s. I later learned Tolkien...
View ArticleREVIEW: The King of Comedy
There’s a scene early on in The King of Comedy where late night talk show host Jerry Langford (played by Jerry Lewis) leaves his New York City apartment and walks through crowded midtown on his way to...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Growing up in New York meant the secondary channels – WNEW, WOR, WPIX – often ran the same features often enough you came to expect them and knew the films from their frequent advertisements. It’s...
View ArticleBox Office Democracy: “Transcendence”
I’m always rooting for good dystopian science fiction so it’s hard for me to report that Transcendence does such a bad job, not so much at building a world or introducing key concepts, rather, it...
View ArticleMartha Thomases: To Infinity … And Beyond!
Do you ever think about infinity? I do, and it makes me dizzy. I don’t just mean infinity in terms of numbers, although I do mean that. I mean infinity in terms of space. When I think about space not...
View ArticleStar Wars: Episode VII Cast Announced
http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-7-cast-announced.html The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar...
View ArticleJohn Ostrander: The Super Glass Ceiling
Well, I finally saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier this past week. Yeah, I’m a Johnny-O come lately. Got to see it in my preferred format these days, IMAX 3-D, and I and My Mary had a really...
View ArticleREVIEW: Son of Batman
Way back in the 1970s, there was a fun little one-off story by Denny O’Neil where Batman was pitted once more against Ra’s al Ghul, but the unique element was that he was drugged and by the time he...
View ArticleThings crashing into other things: or, my superhero movie problem
The problem with the superhero movie as currently practiced by Disney/Marvel (the interlocking “universe” series) and Sony/Marvel (“The Amazing Spider Man” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”) and DC...
View ArticleBox Office Democracy: “Godzilla”
I needed Godzilla to give me more monster fights. Not monsters destroying cities or people running from monsters but monsters fighting monsters. They knew that’s what I wanted too because sequences...
View ArticleNew Posters for “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”
Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning Sin City graphic novels back to the screen in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Weaving together two of Miller’s...
View ArticleStrange Sports Stories: Toledo Mud Hens Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
Following up on last year’s Chewbacca-themed jerseys for May The Fourth Be With You, Detroit Tigers AAA team the Toldeo Mud Hens will be sporting mock-Ghostbusting duds on May 30th for Ghostbusters...
View ArticleBox Office Democracy: “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Bryan Singer was making watchable superhero movies when no one else was and because of that I want to give him a lot of slack. I’ve even mostly forgotten Superman Returns ever happened. I liked more...
View ArticleREVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon
When your children grow up and leave home, one of the regrets is that until they give you grandchildren, you have little excuse to go see the fun family films that keep rolling out. As a result, I...
View Article“Fantastic Four” Furlough: Feasible or Flummery?
The rumors that circle through the comics industry span the sublime to the ridiculous. Some, like the death and/or return of major characters turn out to be spot on, but some make the annual spate of...
View ArticleBox Office Democracy: “Maleficent”
Recent years have brought an avalanche of terrible fairy tale remakes. Snow White and the Huntsman was boring, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was dreadful, and Jack the Giant Slayer is so...
View ArticleWho Really Wants An “Ant-Man” Movie?
English: Edgar Wright at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego (Photo credit: Wikipedia) …these movies are all so intertwined from a business/perception perspective that Marvel can no longer afford to roll...
View ArticleBox Office Democracy: “Edge of Tomorrow”
I’m always rooting for sci-fi action movies to succeed and when it became clear that Edge of Tomorrow was going to be equal parts sci-fi action and Groundhog Day I was ready to love this movie....
View ArticleWatch the new trailer for Frank Miller’s “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”
Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Weaving together two of...
View ArticleTURTLE POWER, TMNT Documentary Coming August 12
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Go behind-the-scenes and beneath the streets to discover the real origin story of four of pop culture’s most enduring heroes in the captivating new film TURTLE POWER: The...
View ArticleMichael Keaton’s Birdman Trailer Hatches
Well, this sort of came out of nowhere. We must have missed when this wnet into production but here comes Michael Keaton in a brand new superhero film that is set somewhere other than Gotham City....
View ArticleREVIEW: RoboCop
The best science fiction is the kind that uses the settings to make comments about our society today, making us think. When Paul Verhoeven gave us RoboCop in 1987, it was a commentary on the rapidly...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: The Super-Villain In The White House
So our national fingerwag has found its way through the mire of newsprint and cable television and into the Land of Comics. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you won’t hear it from me because...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: TAXI BROOKLYN Rolls To NBC
Luc Besson’s popular TAXI movie franchise is now an NBC TV series called TAXI BROOKLYN. Actress Chyler Leigh talks about the challenges on taking a big hit to both a new medium and a new country, plus...
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