I’m pretty much avoiding any and all casting rumors swirling around Marvel Studios’ upcoming Captain America film—which is apparently titled The First Avenger: Captain America—but I’m having a hard time…
In a Los Angeles Times piece, director Christopher Nolan confirmed earlier reports that Warner Bros. has enlisted him to oversee production on a Superman reboot, acting as a producer and…
As I mentioned in a post last week, the whole Tron thing is pretty new to me. I don’t have any deep-seeded childhood memories about the quirky 1982 Disney flick…
Yes, yes, the Academy Awards took place last night and we’re all very happy for the winners. But I think the real highlight of the night came long after Kathryn…
If you follow my film/television coverage over at Broken Frontier, you know I have some pretty mixed feelings about Heroes, NBC’s floundering superhero series that, for the past three years,…
I really don’t have any interest in Sony Pictures’ The Smurfs, which starts shooting next month, but after learning that Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible’s…
If you saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I’m pretty sure you were disappointed by it. If you weren’t, you really need to stop lying to yourself. But even if you loathed…
Can I confess something? I grew up having little to no interest in Tron, Disney’s groundbreaking 1982 film combining flesh-and-blood actors and computer-generated imagery. I was familiar with the premise…
It’s pretty safe to say at this point that James Cameron’s Avatar is a cultural touchstone. It’s the highest-grossing film of all time, it’s up for nine Oscars, it’s inspired…
While nursing a leg injury, comedy legend Bill Murray made a hilarious appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, wearing a shiny purple shirt, gigantic snow boots…
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