Wow! That was an exciting Superbowl! Half of the fun of watching the Big Game is checking out all of the wacky commercials and previews. We managed to gather all of the major movie trailers and previews that premiered today, so that you can take a closer look. Enjoy! Jurassic World Hot […]
Jake Gyllenhaal has had an incredible acting career by managing to string together a series of quality projects. While he is respected by his peers and has turned in more than one dynamite performance, he never has had an iconic geek role to define him. He has been one breath away from being Batman, by […]
The post apocalyptic film is quickly becoming this generation’s equivalent to the Western. The similarities are too obvious to ignore, plus the themes speak to much of what is happening currently. The newest addition to the genre is Young Ones, directed by Jake Paltrow (the brother of Gwyneth) and sports an extraordinarily talented cast. It […]
This fall 20th Century Fox will be releasing their animated feature, The Book of Life. The film is being co-written and directed by Jorge Gutierrez (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera) and is being produced and shepherded to the big-screen by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim). This latin-themed fairy tale is set on […]
The Tony award-winning Broadway play, Into the Woods, is being adapted for movie theaters and Disney is trying to make a splash. The theatrical version is being directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) and will feature the acting talents of Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine and Johnny Depp. The story follows a cursed […]
There has been a long history of terrible video games based on film licences. However, there was a video game adaptation that not only collapsed Atari, but threatened to end the video game industry before it took off. In 1982, Atari was tasked with creating the video game adaptation of Stephen Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. They agreed to […]
The Maze Runner was first published in 2009 by author James Dashner. A young-adult book about a post-apocalyptic world where a group of young men are forced to run a deadly maze for their survival. However, this is no ordinary maze made of bushes, but a transforming maze with deadly creatures around every bend. The […]
The sixth and final installment of Peter Jackson’s Middle-Earth saga is coming this December. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will tell the last part of Bilbo Baggins epic quest with Gandalf the Wizard and a band of dwarves. This film is said to match, or perhaps best, the scale of war seen […]
Lionsgate has had a masterful viral campaign leading up to the next installment in their Hunger Games series. Previous promotions were propaganda campaigns staged by President Snow with Peeta at his side. In the first official teaser trailer, we see Katniss Everdeen and the plans for rebellion brewing. The thrust of the first two installments […]
George Miller (Babe) defined the post-apocalyptic landscape in cinema with his trilogy of Mad Max films, over 30 years ago. So much so, that it is hard to imagine a barren wasteland without the iconography he coined. His vision can be seen in modern movies and games, such as Book of Eli, The Road and […]
For over a year there has been a debate over the quality of the latest Superman film, Man of Steel. Typically the debate is over whether the movie was pretty good or really good. It is easy to forget how long it took to get another viable vision of Superman on the big screen. Before […]
Disney is doing quite well for themselves. They have acquired Pixar, Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios over the past decade or so. Their animation division has scored two huge hits in a row with Wreck-It-Ralph and Frozen and now they are taking on Big Hero 6. Big Hero 6 is the first animated Marvel superhero project for Disney. […]
