The long in-development Steve Jobs movie is finally here after a long road through development hell to the big-screen. Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) directs the biopic from a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin (Moneyball, A Few Good Men) about the co-founder of Apple, who helped to lead a technological revolution in the […]
The Flash returned to airwaves last night after an incredibly successful debut season. The show managed to adapt a comic book that has a lead character who is struck by lightning, which embues him with super speed enabling him to break the laws of physics. Yeah, it’s a pretty far out concept… However, producers Greg Berlanti, […]
Gangster films have been around since the dawn of film and the tales of people who live brazenly on the wrong side of the law, has been ripe material for movies for almost one hundred years. The latest incarnation of the mob drama is Black Mass, which follows James “Whitey” Bulger, the man responsible for decades worth of […]
In an era of uninspired reboots, there was many skeptics and even more apathy for the new sequel, Jurassic World. Early trailers with unfinished CGI and uneven editing, also did not do the film’s public perception any favors. However beneath it all, seemed to be a glimmer of the classic and at the end of the day, […]
Disney and director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) went through extreme measures to keep the story for Tomorrowland under wraps, which served to heighten expectations for anyone paying attention. The combination of taking a trip to a magical land, while getting an engaging adventure seemed to be a guarantee. However, Tomorrowland only delivers on half of that […]
Another superhero show will debut this fall when Supergirl comes to CBS. Last week the network gave audiences their first look at the show, with a six-minute extended preview that drew mixed reactions. Many were thrown off by the tone and frivolity of the trailer causing debates across the internet. A week later the entire […]
Welcome back for another week of the Epic Comicast podcast! Did you see Avengers: Age of Ultron over the weekend? Have you been itching to go see it again because you feel you missed some details? Or are you simply having withdrawals and need another dose of the Marvel cinematic universe? Lucky for you, this […]
Typically films create a world that you travel and visit with for two hours at a time. However Marvel Studios looked to take the serialized nature of their comic books and translate the storytelling technique to film. The result is a cinematic universe that spans eleven films and over eight years of material to follow […]
Video games have been a growing part of popular culture ever since Pong was first introduced by Atari in 1972. In the late 1970’s, Atari began introducing home video game consoles and revolutionized the gaming industry. After a series of hits including Pac-Man, Pitfall, and Yar’s Revenge, the gaming company had a strangle hold on […]
The Flash is hands down the best superhero show on TV. It seems like every week is better than the previous and it has not let up yet. “Out of Time” begins with a flashback to the first episode, indicating that things are going to come full circle. The first scene from the pilot episode is […]
It has been a long road for Rick and the gang. They have survived for years in the zombie apocalypse and with that good fortune comes an inevitable change in the survivor’s personalities and a general loss of trust in humanity. Rick’s gang has seen some of the worst in mankind and it has transformed everyone to […]
The Wachowskis were once regarded with legendary reverence for their ground-breaking science fiction movie The Matrix. The movie set the standard for superhero action for the next two decades, yet the sibling directing team has failed to find the same level of success since then. Due to their recent spotty track record, early images that raised as […]
