Folks who're still hoping to see the Justice League on the big screen are, at this juncture, pining their hopes on a pair of miracles: Firstly, that the quintessentially Oscar/Felix team-up of Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan yields a great film in "Man of Steel" (FWIW, people inside Warner Bros and various licensing-business sources have seen the film, and the current buzz is exceedingly positive - take that as you will) and that somehow Warner Bros then suddenly figures out how to also not screw-up new incarnations of Batman,...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
"Cars" sucks. Yes, I think there's more than a little merit to the notion that "movie people" who usually fall right in line behind Pixar wrote the film off early on because it was "tainted" by connection to the Nascar culture (and wasn't interested in taking the piss out of the sport and - more specifically - it's fanbase like "Talladega Nights") ...but "Cars" still sucks all the same. "Cars 2" sucks a lot less, but only by virtue of dropping the first film's pretense toward Pixar-level meaningfulness and instead wallowing in the cheap slapstick...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. YES.The original "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" is one of the great overlooked comedies of the 21st Century: An absolutely hillarious scifi/comedy in the mold of "Ghostbusters" that just happens to be animated. The sequel has been similarly flying under the radar, but now there's a trailer (yes, it's a shitty Yahoo embed, sorry.)Yup, looking good. My one concern would be that it looks like they've basically re-upped and expanded the finale of the first film into an entire movie, but the trailers for the original...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Monday, 25 February 2013
There should be something unseemly about a profession comedy outfit Kickstarting a part of their next "bit," but despite their relative fame and legacies RiffTrax is actually a pretty small operation that generally does right by their fanbase; so I'm okay with this.Anyway, here's the skinny: RiffTrax wants to make their next big theatrical simulcast event a live-riffing of "Twilight;" but since securing the rights just to live-broadcast (to say nothing of make fun of) a recent, major motion picture is a lot more expensive than, say, "Plan 9 From...
Via ComingSoon"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" puts me into a profoundly schizophrenic state: It's a movie I absolutely should be looking forward to (Spider-Man vs. Electro and Paul Giamatti as The Rhino? Awesome!) and by all right would sound like something worth getting psyched about - except it's a sequel to "The Amazing Spider-Man," which was fetid dog shit. And since most of the crew guilty of that previous film has come back for this one,...
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Friday, 22 February 2013
UPDATED: The "uncropped" version of the poster-image at Empire shows more details, discussed after the jump.Love, love, LOVE this poster of Ben Kingsley as "Iron Man 3's" big bad. The series has REALLY lacked for truly iconic heavies; and this guy just instantly looks like a great, unique, smug-yet-cool badass in the vintage-007 sense - EXACTLY the right tone. So fucking cool. As mentioned above the uncropped still from which the poster was...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
According to Variety, the Michael Bay produced "TMNT" reboot (which is back on after shutting down production allegedly because of script-suckage) has found it's April O'Neil... and its Megan Fox.Two things that are odd about this (other than Bay casting the way an Onion parody report would imagine him casting): 1. Fox and Bay were supposed to have had a major falling-out, so this is surprising; and 2. This indicates they've possibly changed their screenplay significantly - in the version I read before this was "delayed," April and Casey Jones...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Today is my Birthday. Hooray me.In lieu of gifts, well-wishers are asked to watch this ALL-NEW EPISODE of "Adventures of The Game OverThinker" - in which I respond to Warren Spector and David Cage's controversial DICE lectures - and then Tweet, Facebook and otherwise share it with as many others as you can...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Friday, 15 February 2013
I actually like Paul Walker a lot. He looks like "the guy who comes with the picture frame," but he's perfectly willing to throw himself into the most absurd/stupid movie scenarios and hold a straight face - think Kyle McLachlan, only he never found "his" David Lynch.Anyway, his new movie "Hours" looks like a prime example one of my absolute guiltiest pleasures: Spectacularly-unlikely "and THEN!!!!" story contrivances played as 100% straight melodrama - the sort of movie where watching the rest of the audience actually buy into the hacky,...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Two observations about "The Host" (new trailer below):1.) When was the last time we had a talent-mismatch as profound as Andrew Niccol directing a Stephenie Meyer adaptation? I can't think of a recent example as striking (no, not "Thor," smartasses) - it's like if David Lynch had decided to film the "Gor" series instead of "Dune."2.) I really like that the aliens' "signature" is apparently that all their tools, vehicles, weapons, etc. have a mirrored-chrome fini...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Friday, 8 February 2013
Nobody cares about "Identity Thief." Soderbergh's "Side Effects" is actually pretty damn good and worth seeing especially if you've missed the trailers, but didn't screen in time for review and is sort-of review-proof. So here's a video-essay on Stallone and Schwarzenegger's solo-"comeback" movies both bombing spectacularly.Also INTERMISSION.The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Musclepocaly...
BadassDigest reports on a persistent industry rumor that Warner Bros. may be hitting the brakes on their "Justice League" movie - which had previously been on a fast-track to get done in time to open alongside "Avengers 2" in 2015 - supposedly on account of Will Beale's screenplay terrible and a big reason why they haven't been able to interest a director yet.So far, my favorite tertiary gossip to hit in the wake of this is the story that Ben Affleck turned down the job (that part was already widely reported) because Warners' "condition" was...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Not content to continue making it's own mistakes, "The Amazing Spider-Man" franchise (which was actually looking a little better what with Paul Giamatti now officially playing The Rhino) is now intimating that it intends to make Sam Raimi's mistakes as well...Day 3. #happybirthday twitter.com/MarcW/status/2…— Marc Webb (@MarcW) February 7, 2013This picture of a metallic locker numbered "14" was Tweeted by ASM2 director Marc Webb yesterday, as part of what's become a succession of cryptic prop-image teases from the now-shooting film. The "Happy...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
That's it. I'm done. DONE. From now on I only have ONE ironclad rule for who should-be/would-be-good-if tapped to direct this or that "geek" franchise: A.B.A. Anyone But Abrams.And yes, I'm including Michael Bay, Uwe Boll, Brett Ratner, Joel Schumacher, etc. I will gladly - happily, in fact - take memorably-awful "we'll learn from this" catatrophes over the continued mediocratization of the so-called 'nerd-cinema.' ENOUGH, at long last, with the "good-enough-ing" of what was for a moment there an immensely positive movement in blockbuster-level...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Monday, 4 February 2013
I love this.You might recall that the first "G.I. Joe" movie was target of some trumped-up rage from the right-wing media for not being patriotic enough; because the team had gone international (it kinda always was, but don't tell them that) and were fighting made-up terrorists instead of Al Qaeda (also as-always, and also don't tell them that - "9/11 Changed EVERYTHING!" (TM) and it was apparently every action figure's duty to make paranoid assholes feel better about themselves by face-punching Muslim-looking people onscreen.)Well,...
Sunday, 3 February 2013
MAJOR POTENTIAL SPOILERS IN LINKS AND AFTER JUMP!It's been quite a ride for Latino Review, a NY-based movie news/gossip site originally set up to focus on stories related to Latino stars and projects that has in addition become a go-to site for comic-book movie scoops thanks to the alarmingly-excellent digging skills of one "El Mayimbe," who claims to be acting (in part) out of a cheeky vendetta against Marvel Studios brass for pulling some shady business on a professional pal. To date, probably their biggest scoop was breaking the subject...
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