Four years have scurried past since Tim Burton’s fantastical retelling of Alice in Wonderland hit big-screens worldwide. With a great deal to live up to, Burton and the Disney studio delivered, bringing Lewis Carroll’s beloved quirky and haunting novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to life with a visual masterpiece. Its colorful and imaginative imagery set…
There is nothing on this planet that I have more feelings about than Captain America, and I go crazy for even a shred of Cap-scented news. That is a disappointing situation to be in when the next film doesn’t come out until 2016—but now fans of the Star Spangled Man can dance in their seats,…
By societal standards, I guess I’m an adult. I have insurance payments, student debt, job-hunting marathons, and a car hood that’s been held down with duct tape. If the modern portrayal of the early-20’s woman is accurate, then I suppose I could be called an adult. But a recent journey to the local drive-in movie…
Actor and stand-up comedian Robin Williams was found dead in his California home early Monday afternoon. A statement released by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office labels the death “to be a suicide due to asphyxia.” Williams was 63. Williams’ sudden death brought forth an onslaught of support and sadness from news outlets and social media venues as the story…
We’re sure Frank Miller has done it again. The legendary writer on Robocop, Batman and Daredevil comics has teamed a second time with director Robert Rodriguez to follow up their original silver-screen version of the Sin City comic books. Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For’s trailer and promotional campaign promises 2 captivating hours…
San Diego Comic-Con has begun, officially, and the news is already pouring out. Marvel fans in particular got a great little sneak peek last night at the poster art for the first ever Ant-Man movie title. We already knew that Paul Rudd is locked in as Ant-Man himself, and that Marvel has scooted slowly away…
Besides super-heroes, comics offer a wide range of genres, characters, and settings. Some of these are starting to be explored, but plenty more have not been. Here are just a few untapped gold mines that writers and directors could choose from. Black Hole by Charles Burns A tale of adolescent mutants (no, not those adolescent…
Two Indiegogo fund seekers devised ‘Ritot’ projection watch, which means they either really loved the film ‘In Time’ or else this is one of the biggest coincidences known to humankind. However, there watch isn’t a biological clock counting down your days of life; rather, it simply tells you the time. The Ritot watch, also known…
Marvel is amazing. A little background that people tend to forget: no one wanted to touch Iron Man with a ten foot pole. Fast forward six years and now it seems everyone wants a piece of Marvel studios—a company started because no one would produce these little comic book films that were supposed to flop…
Comic-Con is coming! On the 24th of July, the convention in San Diego kicks off, and it’s promising to be a big one. Comic-Con has always been a major event in geek culture, after all – if more for cosplaying than anything else. Thursday Beginning at 10:00, Jan Schroeder and Jon Del Arroz will discuss…
I’m going to say the two dreaded words pertaining to movies, but don’t click away. Computer generation. There, I said it. Now with that out of the way, let’s get down to business. Motion Capture Motion capture (or performance-capture) has become standard for blockbusters nowadays. We barely even react to a fully-rendered CG character, and…
Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, has been in the works for over a decade and is set to be released next summer. Taking place twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, this long-awaited film features the fully-functional dinosaur theme park that John Hammond dreamed of in the first movie….
With the August 15th release date of ‘The Giver’ fast approaching, fans of Lois Lowry’s popular young adult novel are holding their breaths as they wait to find out if they film will live up to their expectations. Many of us have enjoyed the novel since childhood, and the glimpses we’ve seen of the film…
With the new Godzilla movie out in theaters, it’s time for a brief history of the beloved beast. From narrowly avoiding a body design that included an atomic mushroom cloud for a head, to having a roar made by the sound produced by rubbing a resin coated glove along the string of a contrabass and then slowing…
It is hard to hear Edge of Tomorrow mentioned without the accompanying “it’s just like Groundhog Day,” or some variation there of. But Edge of Tomorrow is not just another scab picked off of some holy Hollywood money man, or at least not the source material it is based on. That’s right. It is actually…