At this point I don’t think it’s possible for Marvel hype to get any bigger. With every new movie announcement or rumor, the superhero train gains more steam. So here we are to feed that fire a little bit. Vin Diesel announced on his Facebook page that he met with Marvel to discuss…something. He doesn’t…
Unless you are watching “Dr. Who,” the chances of your favorite sci-fi/fantasy TV show getting cancelled prematurely are pretty good. I still haven’t gotten over “Firefly” and its short run. Even “Fringe,” which did have a lengthy run, seemed to get the short end of the stick a lot. It’s just the nature of a…
The Fourth of July, or Independence Day if you will, is a holiday that has festivities contingent on being outside in nice weather. Parades, barbecuing and fireworks are great, but what if it rains? Or what if you want to sit inside and watch movies all day? Both are legitimate concerns. So grab a hotdog….
I’m not yet caught up on all the June releases, but the end of the month is here. So we better move quickly because a whole new crop of blockbusters are set to come out. We have three more animated features that promise to over-saturate the market and a group of comic book adaptations that…
I put off writing this feature for a few days because I half-expected the freight train of Marvel (and Sony) to immediately announce a new Mary-Jane for “The Amazing Spider-Man 3,” but since that isn’t the case yet, let’s catch you up on the Saga of Mary-Jane Watson. Back in the fall, there was big…
My first exposure to monster movies came from watching the 1964 film, “Mothra vs. Godzilla” as a child with my dad. The main thing I remember from that experience was my dad trying to convince me that it was actually filmed in color, but everything back then was black and white. Good one dad. But…
Remember Harry Potter? Boy wizard, who magically cleaned out your wallet without you realizing it? Well we are almost two years removed from the final film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II” and many of the pitfalls we expect to happen in the aftermath of a massive franchise are yet to occur. All…
With the release of “World War Z,” we have zombie fever. Whether it’s “Dawn of the Dead” or “Warm Bodies,” we can’t go too long without getting a new look at everyone’s favorite fictional (?) monsters. Most of the time the zombies fit the bill. They have green complexion, lurch along and eat brains. But…
Game of Thrones is a complex puzzle where none of the pieces actually fit together. Conventional wisdom and the literary cues given to us throughout the first three seasons are proven false without warning. It’s as if author George RR Martin is telling us to stop anticipating what will happen because we are wrong. Now…
This Sunday is Father’s Day, the annual tie giving, barbecuing holiday that adorns our June calendars every year. The week before is filled with racked brains trying to figure out something our poppas would actually want. It’s not any easy process. Unless you are in fact a dad and then it’s time to just sit…
There are a lot of films released every year that are sci-fi or fantasy in nature. But not many of them are able to boast being based on a true story. One such supernatural true story in the works has gained some traction after being linked to one of Hollywood’s most prominent leading men. Deadline.com…
Have you stopped crying yet from the “Red Wedding” last week? It definitely took me some time. But Game of Thrones doesn’t leave us with such tragedy during the long off-season. Instead we got this week’s season finale, which wrapped up stories and ultimately gave us a ton of questions to mull over until next…
When I was younger I was under the impression that everyone needed to pick a side with genre movies. I was late to the “Harry Potter” game, a franchise that ended up being my favorite of all, because I chose “Lord of the Rings” and I couldn’t betray my friends from Middle-Earth. The same goes…
Did you happen to see “The Last Stand” starring the can’t-miss pairing of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Knoxville? Well, guess what. It missed. After the success of “The Expendables” and its sequel the ex-California Governor was supposed to be continuing his Hollywood comeback trail into action stardom. But “The Last Stand” flopped and a few…
For the first time in three years of Game of Thrones, I have left an episode depressed. We learned with Ned’s death in season one that every character’s slaughter is fair game, but that doesn’t make this any easier to handle. A defenseless family betrayed at a wedding feast and a whole story arch wiped…