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Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
Hat-tip to BAD and Twitch for putting this one on my radar: "Mr. Go" is a Korean sports comedy(?) about an oversized gorilla who joins a baseball team: Yup. That's about all that's needs saying, but hit the jump for a... "making-of trailer," I guess (is that a more commonplace thing in Korean theaters?) that shows off their motion-capture tech (anyone who reads Korean care to tell me who Go's mo-cap performer is?) and a little more of the plot - apparently there's a second, presumably "evil" gorilla in there, too...
Warner Bros. has released the previously WonderCon-exclusive longer trailer for Guillermo Del Toro's "Pacific Rim," which closes on a shot that - in a just world - should end up being the single most memorable image of the entire 2013 schedule. Holy. Shit.... I remain REALLY worried about the prospects for this one. Oh, it'll almost certainly be a magnificent film... but I feel like the studio and others might be way overestimating the prospects for it. I'm loathe to admit it, but all the military/LeBeouf/Fox douchebag bullshit that Bay etc piled...
Friday, 26 April 2013
Thursday, 25 April 2013
ScrewAttack.com's gaming con, SGC, is returning June 21 - 23 of this year and I'll be a guest: Doing some panels, hanging out and I'm hoping to have a supply of books to sell and/or signby then as well.Registration is still open, and if you do it through THIS LINK you'll be directly supporting me and The Game OverThinker series. So... think about doing that, please...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
This will be showing up in front of "Iron Man 3." There's not especially much to report other than "bigger, darker, the gang's all back, etc.," (7 to 1 odds says Natalie Portman's Jane Foster doesn't make it out of this alive, I'd wager) but we do get a look at Malekith the Accursed, and it's nice of them to wait for the final shot to answer everyone's top question. Director is Alan Taylor, late of a bunch of "Game of Thrones" episod...
Monday, 22 April 2013
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Below, the trailer for "R.I.P.D.," which appears to be based on the premise of "Men in Black" not already being too similar "Ghostbusters." Ryan Reynolds is Will Smith, Jeff Bridges is Tommy Lee Jones, they're deceased police officers drafted into an afterlife law-enforcement outfit that runs down rogue sou...
Friday, 19 April 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
As you might have read previously, I wrote a book and it's coming out soon through the fine folks at Fangamer.net. I still unfortunately don't have a set date date of publication to announce, but I can now officially reveal that we'll be publishing it under the title "SUPER MARIO BROS. 3: BRICK-BY-BRICK", and here on your right you can see the cover-art (UPDATE: Now without unnecessary hyphens) that the fine folks at Fangamer put together for...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Below the jump (in case this turns out to be some kind of spoiler) are three frames of footage taken from approximately the 2:06 - 2:07 mark of the new "Man of Steel" trailer that seem to show Superman in combat with... something...(POSSIBLE SPOILERS!)So! Big swirly vortex, what look very much like tentacles or tendrils of some kind, possibly a glowing "eye" or orb of some kind at the center? Could be mechanical in nature, could be a creature,...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Aw, Marvel... you were doing so fucking well with this stuff! Bad form. Very bad form.JFX Online (yeah, me neither) has "spy" photos from the set of the now-shooting "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" that would appear to reveal that Cap's look has undergone yet another overhaul. I'm putting it below the jump for the especially spoilerphobic, but if you want a basic idea it's pretty-much that dull number he was wearing in the "Heroic...
Well, here's this then: And that would be why Warner Bros. is supposedly so pysched about this particular movie. Some potentially-spoilery thoughts after the jump...Interesting that, though by all accounts the film is really, really action-heavy, WB is still mainly leaning on the iconography and the American Pastoral stuff as the selling point.Equally interesting that they're not going the traditional route of selling the central threat/villain harder than the hero. There's still very little Zod in here - no real sense of what his motives,...
The Daily Mail has the first snaps of Jamie Foxx in his makeup as Maxwell Dillion aka Electro for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," restoring equilibrium to the movie-verse by stopping the slow drip of shockingly-NOT-shitty-looking/sounding-stuff gradually being revealed about the project."Hey, Jamie Foxx! Congratulations on headlining one of the biggest and most critically-lauded hits of the year - what are you gonna do next!?""I was thinkin' I'd...
Monday, 15 April 2013
For those of you who don't know, this whole operation is based out of Boston. So I just wanted to give a quick head's-up that yes, it's true that two (so far) explosions - apparently now confirmed to be bombs of some type - have exploded at the Boston Marathon. I was nowhere near the incident today, and thus far none of my family/friends are confirmed to have been in the area and are not among the injured.Those looking to help the victims of this senseless tragedy are asked to make donations to the Red Cross and/or to give blo...
It seems a little late in the game for "Man of Steel" to start in on the viral-video business, but this is a pretty interesting teaser. I know a bit more than I think is considered common knowledge about "Man of Steel's" basic component parts (i.e. what Zod and Kal-El "are" as characters and what their underlying motivations are) so there's a certain extra level of "Oh, okay, I see how X fits in with Y" in this; but mainly it's a tease for the thus-far only briefly-glimpsed new iteration of Zod as played by Michael Shannon - though from what can...
Friday, 12 April 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
The problem with discussing issues of "gender politics" online is that the conversation will inevitably be dominated by an ever-expanding subgroup of men who are just lazy enough to decide that they'd rather give up on the prospect of ever having sex altogether rather than undertake whatever steps of self-improvement or even self-awareness might be necessary to correct that condition... yet somehow just motivated enough to project their bitterness and hatred away from themselves (or genetics, or God, or whatever) and instead onto women -...
Here's the thing about the on-again/off-again rumors of Christopher Nolan producing the "Justice League" movie Warner Bros. wants to make if "Man of Steel" is a hit: Warner Bros. wants him to. Warner Bros. will ALWAYS want him to - if you were them, wouldn't you want to be able to stick "From The Producer of 'The Dark Knight'" on as many movies as possible? The question has never been "Does WB want Nolan for this?" but rather "Does Nolan want even more clout badly enough to keep spending time on a project/genre he expressly has no interest...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Bank of America has a new commercial airing in which a woman uses a smartphone while sitting in a movie theater (during the show.) In the context of the ad she, the phone, and Bank of America are the heroes - isn't she AWESOME for being able to take care of her mobile-banking during the movie?This makes me angrier than a commercial has made me in awhile, to the degree that I can't even believe I saw it - especially since BOfA doesn't seem to have it posted anywhere. Judging by Twitter, I'm not the only one who saw this on a commercial...
So! A day ago, everyone got up in arms about Apple knocking Saga #12 off it's App Store because of a postage-stamp sized gay sex scene. Now, it turns out it wasn't missing from the App Store by Apple specific order but was rather withheld by Comixology themselves for fear of getting slapped around by Apple's silly, arbitrary, draconian censorship policies. So, basically, The Internet got all torches-and-pitchforks furious at Apple for something they were only indirectly responsible for; and now The Internet is supposed to learn a valuable lesson...
Oh hey, look! Chris Roberts - onetime famous PC game designer turned moderately-successful movie producer turned space sim kickstarter-helmer - used a bit of THIS infamous Big Picture episode as part of a SXSW panel about the non-death of PC gaming (which feels a lot more like a very lengthy live-performance advertisement for his kickstarted space sim "Star Citizen," but whatever; business is business)! Nifty!I mean, yeah, it's totally out of context and kinda makes it seem like I'm saying something completely opposite what...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Hooooooly shit.First trailer for Neil "I Almost Wasted All This Talent On The 'Halo' Movie" Blomkamp's follow-up to the magnificient "District 9" has hit, and it kicks ass. It's another socially-conscious scifi actioner, this time casting Matt Damon as the point-man (leader?) of a team from poverty-ravaged 2159 Earth who use strength-augmenting mechanical exo-skeletons to launch an incursion against the titular Elysium, an orbiting space-station where humanity's wealthy elite have walled themselves off from the rest of us (and, from the look...
Monday, 8 April 2013
Headline sort of sums it up: Former British PM Margaret Thatcher, ill for some time now, died today of an apparent stroke. She was most-recently the subject of the Meryl Streep Oscar-Aquisition Device "The Iron Lady," my review of which appeared here and I'll repost below the jump to mark the occasion.As a student of history, I have my own general outlook on Thatcher's legacy... but frankly the opinions that count for much more at the moment are those of the folks in the UK who lived either during her tenure or lived through the after-effects...
Friday, 5 April 2013
Thursday, 4 April 2013
The buzz on the "Carrie" remake was that it's not very good, which may or may not be responsible for it getting bounced to mid-Fall; but you can't always trust those sorts of things. Anyway, now it's got a full trailer which aims to help get everybody who never saw the original classic get on the same page with those who did by giving away the entire story in two minutes... Well... it's "Carrie" alright. Obviously can't hope to touch the original DePalma film, one of the all-time great horror flicks, but it'll be interesting to see the story...
It probably says something about my own wasted youth that I can be watching a trailer in 2013 and my first thought is: "Wait, wasn't this part of the premise for the shitty 'Double Dragon' movie?" (I checked, it was.)Anyway, the premise behind "The Purge" is that at some point in the near future the United States has turned itself into a well-behaved utopia by instituting an annual one night "get out of jail free" event wherein all police and/or emergency services are suspended and everyone so-inclined gets a free pass to rob, murder, rape,...
Roger Ebert, who did more than almost anyone to turn Film Criticism into a viable medium/career-path unto itself, has died. Terrible news, especially considering how hard he'd continued working and innovating in spite of his long-running health issues - would you keep doing your day job if you were A.) already rich/famous and B.) no longer had the bottom of your face?Ebert was the vanguard of new American film-critics who swept into the business alongside New Hollywood in the 70s, a guy who'd grown up a movie-obsessed youth and started...
Thus far, the Gritty Reboots YouTube channel had seemed like a great concept in search of a target, but their "Calvin & Hobbes" is a total slam dunk: Feels very much like a plausible Nolanizing of the strip tonally, but also peppered with exactly the right amount of references for the fans (1:10 - perfec...
Here's the red-band trailer for Nicholas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives," his follow-up to "Drive" once-again featuring Ryan Gosling, who is in turn once again playing up that almost surreal "macho" intensity that befits a guy who had to go through middle school with a last name that literally means "A Baby Goos...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
The Marvel Studios "Phase One DVD Set" that had been delayed is now finding it's way to consumers, and pretty-much every news site is running some variation of reports on the Phase TWO preview materials that came packaged therein. HitFix, in particular, has some good scans up plus a vid (for now anyway) of the video-featurette portion. Take a look:WARNING: At least one slice of concept-art may or may not show either a certain previously-established character fighting alongside The Guardians of The Galaxy OR one of the Guardians dropping in on someone...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
It trips me out to consider that "This Is The End" is basically the Movie Celebrity version of "Kickassia" - a bunch of buddy-buddy comedy stars and whoever else they could land playing (versions of) themselves in a rude riff on End Times disaster movie that looks to find the sweet-spot between self-effacing and self-indulgent. The new red-band trailer is pretty extraordina...
Monday, 1 April 2013
I actually really liked the first "Percy Jackson" movie. Yeah, it's a "Harry Potter" clone; but it's not like J.K. Rowling INVENTED the supernatural/schoolboy/hero's-journey hybrid genre and the film had a laid-back 1980s Amblin feel that worked for the most part. Also, I admire how doggedly it sticks to such a specific target audience of "schoolchildren really into Greek Mythology." (Premise: It's "Potter," but instead of a school for natural-born wizards it's a Summer Camp for the half-human offspring of still-existing Olympian Gods.)The...
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