Dissapointing.Also, about "The Host."The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : G.I. Joe: Retaliat...
Friday, 29 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The "X-Men" franchise is in a weird place, being the only major modern comic franchise from the pre-"Avengers"/"Dark Knight" era (aka the "We Haven't Quite Figured This Out Yet" age) to still being kicking without a reboot/remake etc. The best one is still "First Class," and not uncoincidentally that's the one that was most free to jettison the late-90s baggage still attached to the series.In any case, there are trailers now for "The Wolverine," Hugh Jackman's second chance at keeping the only character to date that anyone seems willing to...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
If you were at Escapist Movie Night at PAXEast this past weekend (or you caught an earlier reveal during the Desert Bus charity event) you already know about this, but for everyone else it would seem the cat is out of the bag...So! I'm writing a book. Or, rather, I've written a book and - barring any unforseen disaster - it will be coming out soon. It's a book about video games, and is being developed with (and will be sold exclusively online through) fangamer. If I had to describe it as anything it would be a book of game criticism;...
Monday, 25 March 2013
Deadline is reporting that all four roles have now been cast for the Michael Bay-produced, Jonathan Liebesman-directed "TMNT" movie; which is once again moving ahead with no word on what they've done about the terrible screenplay that helped scuttled the project earlier. The four will join Megan Fox as April O'Neil, and apparently the notion that the turtles will be realized through motion-capture CGI is supposed to be news - I thought that was just assumed from the very beginning...LEONARDO: Pete Ploszek; a virtual unknown fresh out of USC, only...
Saturday, 23 March 2013
A quick object lesson in the way that language can be abused.Hollywood studio chief says, effectively, "let's maybe think about not being jerks."Jerks respond by calling her a bigot and censor.Nowhere in Pascal's (admittedly, let's face it, pie in the sky "nice idea") suggestion as to how the pro-equality fellow execs in her audience could use their positions to help the cause was there a call for censorship, or a rule, or even some kind of official position. It's a simple call for studio bosses with their fingers on the greenlight button to incorporate...
Friday, 22 March 2013
It's a goddamn masterpiece, the first genuine must-see of 2013 and may be Harmony Korine's first truly great movie. No, really - there's no joke there. Go see this. Now."Intermission" talks caveman movies, because of "The Croods" (which is actually pretty good.)Oh, and come see ME at PAXEast! I'll be around the con all weekend, and at the Escapist Movie Night panel at 9:00pm on Saturday in the Merman Theater!The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Spring Break...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
There's a new international trailer for "Star Trek Into Dark Knight" that includes some new footage, most notably/curiously a seemingly gratuitous glimpse of Alice Eve in her underwear that seemingly exists just for the benefit of screencaps. Turns out, it's JJ "Mystery Box" Abrams playing more advertising games with us, as there's actually a hidden URL in the background of the scene that leads to... a new poster.Okay, so... I'm pretty-much okay...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Yeah, I know the accompanying image doesn't precisely fit. Cut me some slack, it's the only searchable-image for "X-Men Wedding" that doesn't seem like a lame tie-in to the corny gay joke every other outlet ran with.Anyway, in what might be the niftiest piece of tangentially-nerdy news of the year so far, Patrick Stewart is marrying New York jazz musician Sunny Ozell. And, since the wedding is set to be held in Massachusetts, they'll be taking advantage...
Monday, 18 March 2013
Sunday, 17 March 2013
(Trigger Warning for discussion of the Steubenville Trial)I still hear many people who get confused at what people are talking about when they say "rape culture." I can understand that - it should be commonly understood, but since the subject is so profoundly uncomfortable you don't really get exposed to the specifics of unless your "involved" with it either on the activist or academic side.In simple terms, it's an umbrella term meant to encapsulate all of the myriad justifications, excuses and defenses that are used to normalize and minimize rape...
Friday, 15 March 2013
"The Venture Bros." is my favorite thing on television, period. It's been fascinating to watch it morph from a straight-on "Johnny Quest" parody to a broader riff on 70s/80s comics/cartoons/etc and now to a thing so densely-woven that it has a full-blown mythos of it's own to play with. Characters who started out as one-joke goofs on established icons are now wholly icons in their own right - it now feels both limiting and incredibly inaccurate to describe Hank & Dean in terms of Johnny or The Hardy Boys, or Brock as simply "psychopath...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The first "Kick-Ass" is a movie that grows in quality every time I see it (which, by the way, is the EXACT opposite effect the original comic had) a rare and near-perfect mix of hard-R satire and genuinely sincere coming-of-age comedy. This now-trailered sequel? I'm onboard. Here's hoping the "great movie based on intermittently mediocre and mean-spirited book" streak continues...Main thoughts: Holy CRAP! Jim Carrey showed up to work as "Col. Stars N' Stripes!" Whole thing seems to be striking the original's flawless balance between "these people...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Monday, 11 March 2013
Everything wrong with the American comics industry in a nutshell: Scott Snyder will spend A YEAR'S WORTH of books re-telling Batman's origin. Again. I'm assuming they'll be either shooting these to Mars, translating them into Dolphin, air-dropping them into unexplored, "hypothetically" human-populated regions of the Amazon Rainforest or whatever other unlikely circumstances you might find someone who is unaware of Batman's origin-sto...
Friday, 8 March 2013
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Oh hey, remember that kickstarted webseries that people freaked out about because a woman was talking out of turn about man things, then decided it was actually a "scam" that would never actually come out when that didn't convince people that she was the antichrist?Well, it came out. Here's a link. I'll chime back in later with what I actually thought of it. UPDATE: At the suggestion of user "Nixou," I'm re-posting (with corrections) my response to one of the more consistent issues people seem to have re: the cost of producing a show like...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
...looks about as good as the last one, which is to say pretty damn good. Not much "new" on display, but at least better looks at stuff that only flew by quickly in the previous trailer. Of particular note, though: "The Mandarin" does, indeed, seem to be called simply "The Mandarin" - which means that the proud Marvel Studios tradition of straight-up lying about this stuff is alive and well. I'm liking that they seem to be doubling-down on the "Ten Rings" as Al Qaeda angle from the first movie, with Mandarin looking more and more like a slightly...
Sunday, 3 March 2013
UPDATE I: Just about the only other guy in the geek-o-sphere as well-informed (or better) than Latino Review's crew is Jeremy "Mr. Beaks" Smith of AICN; and he's chimed in on the story with what sounds like a soft-confirm of LR's reporting: Warner Bros. is willing to empty the bank if it'll get Henry Cavill's Superman and Christian Bale's Batman into a Nolanverse-canon "Justice League" directed by Zack Snyder and produced by the Nolans.UPDATE II: Forbes.com...
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Don't know how many NFL fans are among my regular readers, but for those who aren't up on it this coming Sunday is set to become something of a historical date-of-note for the sport: Lauren Silberman, an MIT graduate and former soccer player, is set to get an actual, official NFL tryout at the Regional Combine - making her the first woman in NFL history to do so. Her chances aren't considered to be all that spectacular (but then, Tim Tebow has an NFL career so who can really say anymore?) but if nothing else it's going to be a conversation-piece...
Friday, 1 March 2013
Imagine if, after "Jackie Brown" wasn't the biggest thing ever; that instead of taking some time to dig in and truly connect with what he wanted to do with film and what made him "tick" as an artist (results re: "Kill Bill," "Grindhouse," "Inglorious Basterds" and now "Django" speak for themselves) ...Quentin Tarantino had decided to say "fuck it" and just making variations-on/revisitations-of "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs" while staying comfy on merchandising from films and characters he'd made during a relatively brief period of...
I know firsthand that not everyone likes the way that certain slices of the "Internet Geek Criticism Community" have evolved from host-segments to full-on sketches to characters and continuity; and I'll be the first to concede that the roster of people really making it "work" isn't exactly massive. But there's an energy and vibrancy to the idea of it that I truly, sincerely dig. There are two important "movements" happening in the grassroots of Geek/Fandom Culture right now: The rise of new-gen criticism-as-performance-art that...
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