A long time ago a picture made the internet rounds that showed Iron Man done Pixar style and got everyone talking about the possibility of Marvel and Pixar merging for a film under the auspices of parent corporation Disney. Well now it looks like that possibility is a reality as Pixar Studios will tackle...
“Mistaken for Stranger”Directed by Tom BerningerStarring Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger Documenary, Comedy, Music 80 minNot Yet Rated Mistaken for Strangers is a bizarre rock doc because it’s not really a rock doc at all. Tom Berninger, brother to The National‘s frontman Matt Berninger, has instead made something else entirely – a film that uniquely attempts...
Way back when, Lee Daniel‘s The Butler had some steam in its Oscar chambers but with the release of this first trailer, some pundits are saying that it may have tuckered out early in the race already. The film is a loose biopic about White House butler Eugene Allen, played by Forest Whitaker, who served...
With The World’s End, Edgar Wright will finish out his much beloved blood and ice cream trilogy that started with Shaun of the Dead and followed up Hot Fuzz. As one would expect, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will return as a pair of Brits palling around. This time though, instead of fighting off...
Return to the edge-of-your-seat world of Paul Greengrass’s films with this first trailer for Captain Phillips. Telling the true story of Captain Richard Phillips, played here by Tom Hanks, Greengrass’s film charters Phillips surrender to Somali pirates after their cargo ship was captured. Like the real life events, Phillips gave himself up in order to...
When I was drafting my 40 most anticipated films of 2013, I gave the Coen Bro‘s Inside Llewyn Davis the benefit of the doubt and let it soar to my number ten spot. This had nothing to do with the synopsis or the talent in front of the camera. No, all my expectations arose from...
Lately, I’ve been watching Arrested Development (for about the tenth time) to get my insider bits up to snuff as I’m priming for the fated day of May 26 when AD makes it’s glorious return. The show functions so well as a house of jokes riffing on itself and constantly building towards more and...
Alfonso Cuaron‘s Children of Men was an astonishing piece of work and the mystery and intrigue behind his new film Gravity made me pop it into the highest spot on my Most Anticipated Films of 2013 List. Starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as two solitary astronauts stuck on a damaged spacecraft, Gravity tells...
In five seasons, True Blood has seen vampires, shifters, plain clothed murders, werewolves, fairies, witches, werepanthers and, er, Maenads. Many believe the show to have jumped the proverbial shark and cling to simpler times when True Blood just involved Southern society adapting to the public knowledge that vampires are indeed real. With so much going...
Ender’s Game is one of those popular young adult books that I never around to reading as a kidbut with a big screen adaptation on the way, I’ll be able to discover what all the fuss is about. 70 years after an alien race attacked Earth and nearly destroyed everything that we know, the human...