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Recent news that the Wachowski siblings’ sci-fi bender Jupiter Ascending has been pushed back from this July until next spring is a reminder that...
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Recent news that the Wachowski siblings’ sci-fi bender Jupiter Ascending has been pushed back from this July until next spring is a reminder that...
At the recent X-Men movie I did something rare: I sat through the entire end credits so I could see the teaser trailer for...
In an ideal world, there’d also be outrage over the fact that someone thought it was a good idea that John Krasinski should provide...
It’s feeling a lot like the 1980s this month. Just the other day it was announced that Harrison Ford was offered the chance to...
For a memorable TV show, you either need a great, attention-grabbing musical introduction (like Perry Mason), a catchy theme song, like Gilligan’s Island or...
Seems changing movie titles is all the rage lately. A few months back, Warner Bros. took the perfectly good and unique title of the...
As a brand new resident of Brooklyn who also happens to be a serious film geek, one of the most exciting features of discovering...
By Thad Komorowski It isn’t common knowledge that the same man has been giving life to both Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar...
I was recently watching the new Criterion Blu-ray of Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress — admittedly the first time since the Criterion DVD was...
Last week saw a bit of sad news in the pop culture world: On March 28, Batman TV show writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. died,...
Game of Thrones is about to find itself in a unique place among TV adaptions — running out of source material while there are...
The recent tragic deaths of actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Walker left two successful movie franchises in flux. Hoffman had not yet finished...
It’s hard not to love Lupita Nyong’o. The newest winner of the best supporting actress Oscar for her work in 12 Years A Slave,...
Last week’s Oscars show played out as it normally does: speeches and montages of the Hollywood film industry insisting on its self-importance — its...
Like a lot of movie fans, I grew up watching the Oscars. One of the first ceremonies I remember is from 35 years ago,...
Paramount’s stunt of releasing a new vulgarity-laden “R”-rated cut of Anchorman 2 to theaters this weekend is a brilliant bit of counterprogramming. It’s positioned...
Man Of Steel is the Peyton Manning of movies: unwarranted hatred for being amazing. To be fair, I can see how some people might...
Years before Roberto Benigni mocked the Holocaust with Life is Beautiful, American icon Jerry Lewis took a crack at his lighter look at Nazi...
If you’re like me, you might have thought a phrase like “the art of Jay Ward” was something of an oxymoron. Darrell Van Citters’s...
Earlier this month Kerry Washington’s appearance on Saturday Night Live kicked off yet another brouhaha about TV being too white — a controversy as...
Review by Dean Galanis Writer/director/sometime actor Greydon Clark was a prolific independent filmmaker in the 70s, 80s and 90s. His output ranged from schlock...
The adaptation of Ender’s Game has arrived in theaters, marking the long awaited return of Harrison Ford to the sci-fi genre. Eternally revered for...
Back in 1980, the animator Joe Oriolo (producer of the TV Felix the Cat cartoons and subsequent owner of the character) vented to historian...