Laughed. My. Ass. Off.INTERMISSION has text-reviews of "Moonrise Kingdom" and "Beasts of The Southern Wild"The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : ...
Friday, 29 June 2012
Thursday, 28 June 2012
...and it looks AWESOME!IGN has the first red-band trailer for "The Man With The Iron Fists;" a gonzo tribute to the golden age of Hong Kong martial-arts films written and directed by the Wu-Tang Clan frontman with backup from Quentin Tarantino. My only regret is that thus far it can only be watched on IGN's shitty media-player: Well, I'm on board - though to be fair like so many films before they had me at Lucy Liu.It'll be interesting to how - if at all - this is recieved. The RZA has supposedly forgotten more about...
Latino Review is claiming that Marvel Studio's "other" planned 2014 release (the first being "Captain America 2" with "Iron Man 3" and "Thor 2" in 2013) - set to be officially unveiled at SDCC - is going to be "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY;" though it remains unclear which incarnation will appear. Where this leaves the supposedly also-imminent "Black Panther" movie (also first reported by Latino Review) is yet to be determined.(SPOILERS FOR "THE AVENGERS" AFTER THE JUMP)Originally a VERY-70s time-traveling space-opera series with the costume/character...
The deadline for ScrewAttack G1's to submit questions for the upcoming Game OverThinker Mailbag Episode will be Saturday night, June 30th. If you are (or plan to become) a G1 and haven't asked your question yet, you may do so in the comments on THIS video.For more information, refer to said video below: ...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Vintage PC Edutainment game fans (that surely must exist, yes?); you may finally be getting a Hollywood blockbuster to call your own: Walden Media (the folks behind the "Narnia" movies) has comissioned a screenplay for a feature film adaptation of "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" Jennifer Lopez is one of the project's producers, and has been developing it as a potential star-vehicle for herself - the title character is a master-thief of (presumably) Latin/Spanish descent who prefers to pilfer items of historical/geographic significance....
If "Wall-E" and "Up" made a baby and decided to raise it live-action, it would probably look a lot like "Robot & Frank;" which is amazingly NOT based on some forgotten/loosely-reworked Isaac Asimov story. Set in the near future, Frank Langella stars as an elderly man whose concerned kids buy him a )very Asimo-looking) caretaker robot; whose is programmed not only to protect and help him physically but also nudge him into psychologically-beneficial hobbies. Complicating matters is the fact that Frank's pre-retirement career was master jewel-thief;...
Monday, 25 June 2012
In case you forgot, the reason we were all supposed to be tolerating the existance of Tyler Perry's appallingly-awful cinematic fusions of Bible-Thumping moralizing, soap opera histrionics and Minstrel Show "comedy" was that he was at least giving boxoffice exposure to criminally-underutilized black actors who might be able to use his bafflingly-popular films as a springboard to bigger A-list roles.Well, the good news is, someone has finally jumped from the Perryverse into a high-profile lead role in a major studio tentpole/franchise-starter....
So... after three whole days of nothing chaotic or awful happening in my life; today I was in a car accident. Not a serious one - just a fender-bender. No injuries, no legal stuff, damage only (appears) superficial, etc; but a nice reminder from The Universe that there seems to either be no great transcendant force looking out for you OR that there is a great transcendant force and it doesn't like you very much. After all, what could be a nicer thing to have than car repair bills while you're in the process of moving-into and furnishing...
Via Screencrush"The Amazing Spider-Man" (which I still haven't seen) isn't a movie, it's a contract-law manuever - the purpose of its existance is to help Sony hold on to a lucrative brand in the short-term while they figure out how to hold on to it for the long-term. Its sole task next week is to open as big as possible (preferably hitting one of those meaningless "highest-grossing unadjusted whatever" boxoffice records) and get as far into the black as possible before "The Dark Knight Rises" comes out and wipes everything else off the map.Sony's...
Friday, 22 June 2012
Thursday, 21 June 2012
The real problem with the first cinematic attempt at "Judge Dredd" was that they somehow managed to miss that the comics were supposed to be funny; a brutal satire of contemporary American culture and American action-hero archetypes as seen by Brits. It also wasn't quite violent or nihilistic enough, sure, but without the sense of humor it didn't matter either way - a proper "Judge Dredd" movie needs to be a celebration of "for-your-own-good" facism turned up to eleven in order to point out the inherent facism in "straight" versions...
"Breaking Dawn" (the book) is probably one of the most dissapointing endings to a "saga" I've ever come across, regardless of the quality of the rest of it. After briefly taking the final "Twilight" on a hard left-turn into the kind of high-end batshit-insanity that bad genre-fiction ought to provide; the whole thing opts to climax in a manner that would get you flunked at a Community College creative-writing class.Below, the trailer for the movie version. If nothing else, it looks like we'll get a lot more Michael Sheen in this one, which...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Via AICNI think I'm embargoed against telling you what I thought of "Brave" until Friday, but I will say that I think their investors are probably extremely happy that their next scheduled release is a follow-up to an established mega-hit a'la "Toy Story 3.""Monster University" will be Pixar's first stab at the prequel game, featuring as it does James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski of "Monsters Inc." as college students. Admittedly, taking their ultimate "working class schmoe" characters and plunking them down into an Animal House/Revenge...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
With shockingly little fanfare (as in, did anyone outside the UK actively know that "Amazing Spider-Man" was having it's premiere there early?) "The Amazing Spider-Man" had it's World Premiere in the UK last night, and the reviews have started to come in. The good news? Mostly positive. Not the explosive enthusiam that hit after "Avengers" started showing, by any means; but also nowhere near the disasterous reactions that greeted "Green Lantern."The bad news? One of the MOST positive reviews (from The Telegraph) calls it "The superhero film...
Below, another new trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises." I've gotta say, it really is awesome to see a big studio like Warner Bros. doing both the right and smart thing by pouring all this advertising into small, offbeat, auteur fare like this that actually needs a big marketing push to make people aware of it; instead of blowing it all on some gigantic, bloated, pre-sold blockbuster that everyone on the planet already knows is coming out in a ridiculous scramble to assure that some sort of headline-grabbing-yet-ultimately-pointless boxoffice...
Sunday, 17 June 2012
This is a few days old, but I'm a little surprised it hasn't made more impact. The "Resident Evil" movies were the poster-children for bad-adaptations of video games (at least until we had "The Legend of Chun-Li" to kick around) but I've come to appreciate them as a B-movie institution unto themselves - not so much "films of the games" as they are working-holiday projects wherein director Paul W.S. Anderson photographs his unspeakably-beautiful wife in a series of increasingly-abstract scifi/martial-arts ballets with characters and monsters...
A few hours ago, Evangeline Chipman - my last surviving grandparent and one of the strongest best people I'll ever know - passed away after having been in ill health for some time.I'm not interested in getting into any more details than that. I share only because - while it's my intention to not interupt the workflow of my sites and projects (if anything, I really need the focusing-effect of work-to-be-done right now) - I can't say what sort of things arrangements and obligations will do to my schedules and output. So, if this blog or...
Friday, 15 June 2012
Crack the bubbly and break out the unconventional pizza toppings - Paramount has indefinitely shut-down production of the (awful-sounding) Michael Bay produced TMNT reboot! The reason? Apparently, the script is terrible - who could've guessed, huh?This is almost-certainly good news for Turtles fandom, and even better news for film critics who'll now have one less Michael Bay movie to endure next year (the film is still on Paramount's "schedule," in much the same way that Warner Bros. is still super suuuuper cereal about "Green Lantern 2;")...
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
I have a soft spot of cheesy 50s/60s sitcoms, which definitely includes "Bewitched," but I don't know that I'd ever seen THIS episode before; which features the Stevens Family encountering a Christmastime houseguest/potential business-associate of Darrins who turns out to be a racist. It must have been pretty eyebrow-raising to even hear the WORD racist on a sitcom back then, alongside the bonus of one a rare instance of Samantha using her powers to "get" somebody (that was usually more of an Endora or Serena thing) - in this case zapping the bigot...
Friday, 8 June 2012
Note: I just wanted to publically thank Justin Clouse at The Escapist, who jumped in and helped finish this episode (re: assembling all of the audio/video files into a cohesive finished product) when my equipment went to shit with very little notice and only my own "unique" interpretation of editing-"plans" to work from. Guy did a bang-up job, in my estimation, and I'm just incredibly sincerely thankful.Anyway! SPOILER WARNING on "Prometheus."Intermission responds to Sasha Stone re: The Avengers and The Oscars.The Escapist : Escape to...
The trailer for The CW's Green Arrow show "Arrow" (Green is apparently boxoffice-poison for Warners now) looks pretty awful - a textbook example of the Nolan-esque "realistic superhero" aesthetic in the wrong hands. Actually looks bad enough to be a parody of bad superhero adaptations, which is impressive considering "Smallville" stayed on the air for a decade.One thing managed to catch my eye, though: Does this mask belong to who I think it belongs...
Thursday, 7 June 2012
UPDATE: I'm leaving the original block-of-angry (which, just for perspective, was typed out on a phone while I waited to smother my angst in cheeseburger and beer) up after the jump for posterity/integrity's sake, but I think I should clarify a few things:1. I see people are hitting up the Tip Jar. While I deeply, deeply appreciate that - I want to be crystal-clear that I didn't put this up looking for sympathy/charity in that regard. Those who chose to do so, thank you very, very much... but I don't rage-post actively seeking that.2....
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Below, the trailer (in shitty Fandango-exclusive quality, sorry) for Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained;" which stars Jamie Foxx as a pre-Civil War slave who teams with a bounty hunter (Christophe Waltz) to hunt down and kill his former masters and free his still-enslaved wife. And in case any doubt was left as to whether or not Tarantino has just lobbed a slavery-revenge pop-culture cluster-bomb into one of the most racially-divisive periods (i.e. NOW) in recent American history; one of the money-shots is blood splattering all over a fluffy...
UPDATED WITH SCREENSHOT!"Wreck-It Ralph" was already on my most-anticipated movies of the year list. At 1:09 of this trailer, it became #1. I won't be more psyched for a movie this year...This may not be a Pixar movie, but it has that "feel." I'm tearing up, just a little, on reflex.The pitch is "Toy Story" for video games: Ralph is the villain of a "Donkey Kong" expy who wants to try out being the good guy, so he departs to try his hand in the new...
I try not to cross-post the blogs too much, but it's kind of bugging me that the most recent TGO is getting somewhat "buried" coming out in the midst of E3 so I feel justified in giving it some space here, too.For some reason I can't embed this one right now, but those interested can see EPISODE 71: EULOGii on ScrewAttack by clicking the links in this po...
Matthew Vaughn's "X-Men: First Class" not only brought a deader-than-dead franchise back to life, it did so by making the best one yet. So a sequel was kind of expected. What wasn't expected? That Fox would go ahead and quietly register the new film's prospective title with MPAA. But they did, and AICN, HitFix and multiple others have confirmed that that title is......X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.The internet is now broken.Quick-version, because I'm working at the moment: "DOFP" was a landmark story-arc during Chris Claremont's defining epic run...
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
So, yes, Warner Bros. is still trying to get a Justice League movie together, with "Gangster Squad" writer Will Beall being the latest to take a crack at the long-stalled project. Honestly, that Warners is working on this isn't news until they say YES to the script itself (studios comission scripts for potential projects all the time) and I suspect that the only reason we're hearing about Beall's script officially is so to bury the less positive announcement that "Wonder Woman" is getting a script from the writer of the "Green Lantern"...
Latino Review's El Mayimbe - who's just about the most scary-reliable movie news scooper out there right now, sez YES.No official confirmation from Marvel/Disney yet, but these guys have been spot-on pretty-much every time they've made a call. If so, this will mark the first Marvel Studios production to feature a minority lead and will (unless I'm forgetting someone?) be the first comic-based film to star a black superhero since "Blade" back in 98.More substantially, it's a terrific character with tons of cinematic potential:I don't know how...
Source: ComicbookmovieA pic snapped on the "Iron Man 3" set appears to set up yet the Marvel Movieverse debut of a huge part of Marvel Comics lore... and possibly open the door to hundreds of potential stories and characters - especially on the Bad Guy side. What a time to be alive.POSSIBLE spoilers - though I imagine it's more like "possible stuff you didn't know about yet" - after the jump: A.I.M. Advanced Idea Mechanics. Fucking A.It's kind...
Sunday, 3 June 2012
I actually didn't even realize they were still doing The MTV Movie Awards, let alone that it was tonight. Apparently, the show climaxed with yet another arrangement of footage from "The Dark Knight Rises" - mostly showing off longer takes of stuff we've seen before, but now with perhaps a little more context... The most interesting thing, obviously, is what seems to be definitive confirmation that Catwoman ends up as a good guy (or, at least, working on Batman's side at some point) which is... whatever, let's see what they do with that....
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