For those done with their beach reads, it’s time to turn to these new books that will be engaging companions as the leaves change color and the temperature cools. Like film, theater and TV, the new book season comes packed with debuts from the likes of You’ve Got Mail star Tom Hanks and Matt Weiner; the return of authors John Green and John le Carre; and a biting postmortem from Hillary Clinton.
2017 Fall Preview: Film, TV, Theater and More!
All the Dirty Parts
by Daniel Handler
Now available
The author of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events ditches the pen name for a coming-of-age tale about a teenage boy discovering his sexuality. Handler delivers on the title with a blunt, honest -- and very explicit -- take on a topic that’s somehow fallen out of modern storytelling.
A Legacy of Spies
by John le Carre
Now available
The undisputed master of spy...
2017 Fall Preview: Film, TV, Theater and More!
All the Dirty Parts
by Daniel Handler
Now available
The author of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events ditches the pen name for a coming-of-age tale about a teenage boy discovering his sexuality. Handler delivers on the title with a blunt, honest -- and very explicit -- take on a topic that’s somehow fallen out of modern storytelling.
A Legacy of Spies
by John le Carre
Now available
The undisputed master of spy...
- 9/27/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Since original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have suddenly stepped down from the Han Solo movie (which is the polite way of saying that they were fired), it would be natural for Star Wars fans to be concerned about the spinoff’s future. Now, Ron Howard has been hired to finish the yet-untitled project, but even though he’s a fairly reliable filmmaker who can make tortured slogs like Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code books into hit movies, it still hasn’t alleviated everyone’s concerns. Thankfully, there’s no need to worry about the Han Solo movie, because it turns out that Ron Howard is a unique advantage when it comes to making a Star Wars movie: He’s a Star Wars fan.
That’s right, he actually likes those movies about the robots and the laser swords. In fact, Variety says that Howard willingly revealed at...
That’s right, he actually likes those movies about the robots and the laser swords. In fact, Variety says that Howard willingly revealed at...
- 6/25/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
The impenetrable fifth film in the franchise proves that director Michael Bay has run out of ideas
I would hazard a guess that Michael Bay would sooner lose his own testicles than hand over the reins of the Transformers franchise. In fact, given the swilling testosterone that sloshes around these battling space robot movies, the two are perhaps inextricably linked. Bay has effectively been waving his balls in our faces for five films now. But given this latest blitzkrieg of blah, it seems the best thing that could happen to this series would be a new director, with new ideas and, ideally, a passing familiarity with storytelling. That, or consigning the whole metal mess to the scrapheap.
Despite the fact that Bay employs his usual technique of having characters shout descriptions of what is happening on the screen (sample dialogue: “Oh my God, look at that, it’s a big alien ship!
I would hazard a guess that Michael Bay would sooner lose his own testicles than hand over the reins of the Transformers franchise. In fact, given the swilling testosterone that sloshes around these battling space robot movies, the two are perhaps inextricably linked. Bay has effectively been waving his balls in our faces for five films now. But given this latest blitzkrieg of blah, it seems the best thing that could happen to this series would be a new director, with new ideas and, ideally, a passing familiarity with storytelling. That, or consigning the whole metal mess to the scrapheap.
Despite the fact that Bay employs his usual technique of having characters shout descriptions of what is happening on the screen (sample dialogue: “Oh my God, look at that, it’s a big alien ship!
- 6/25/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
This review contains minor spoilers.
Following on from the recent ‘The Lazarus Contract’ storyline, Titans #12 sees DC’s superhero team in disarray, with each of the Titans still coming to terms with recent traumatic events. As such, this issue is more about establishing where the characters currently stand rather than hitting the ground running with the new arc. That said, it does set up some super exciting developments to be explored down the line.
Titans #12 kicks off an arc titled ‘Bad Omen,’ with this part one seeing Lilith Clay Aka Omen visit psionic supervillain Psimon at Rikers Island in order to get some important information. Unfortunately, their mind-melding contest seemingly doesn’t go as planned and Psimon ends up browsing through Lilith’s recent memories. It’s a nifty framework narrative as it ensures that there’s some tension and drama to keep things moving forward while also allowing the...
Following on from the recent ‘The Lazarus Contract’ storyline, Titans #12 sees DC’s superhero team in disarray, with each of the Titans still coming to terms with recent traumatic events. As such, this issue is more about establishing where the characters currently stand rather than hitting the ground running with the new arc. That said, it does set up some super exciting developments to be explored down the line.
Titans #12 kicks off an arc titled ‘Bad Omen,’ with this part one seeing Lilith Clay Aka Omen visit psionic supervillain Psimon at Rikers Island in order to get some important information. Unfortunately, their mind-melding contest seemingly doesn’t go as planned and Psimon ends up browsing through Lilith’s recent memories. It’s a nifty framework narrative as it ensures that there’s some tension and drama to keep things moving forward while also allowing the...
- 6/14/2017
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Pete Dillon-Trenchard May 20, 2017
The references and nerdy spots we caught in Doctor Who series 10: Extremis...
This article contains spoilers. Lots of them.
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Whether you like it or not, we’re now halfway through this series of Doctor Who, and it’s time for the stakes to get higher; we now know who’s in the vault (or at least, who the Doctor thinks is in the vault), there’s a massive alien invasion waiting to strike, and oh yeah, the Doctor’s still blind. While you bite your nails waiting for next week’s instalment, here are our viewing notes with all the vaguely interesting things we noticed about this week’s episode. As ever, if you’ve noticed things we haven’t,...
The references and nerdy spots we caught in Doctor Who series 10: Extremis...
This article contains spoilers. Lots of them.
See related Orphan Black Season 4 episode 1 review: The Collapse of Nature Orphan Black comic book series on its way The art of the episode title
Whether you like it or not, we’re now halfway through this series of Doctor Who, and it’s time for the stakes to get higher; we now know who’s in the vault (or at least, who the Doctor thinks is in the vault), there’s a massive alien invasion waiting to strike, and oh yeah, the Doctor’s still blind. While you bite your nails waiting for next week’s instalment, here are our viewing notes with all the vaguely interesting things we noticed about this week’s episode. As ever, if you’ve noticed things we haven’t,...
- 5/20/2017
- Den of Geek
David Crow Mar 6, 2017
Homeland has rebounded from its previously mediocre seasons and found its feet again...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Star Trek: what can we expect from Bryan Fuller's new show? Star Trek: what do we want from the new TV series?
6.6 The Return
During the past five episodes of Homeland, I’ve been enjoying both the series’ premature expectation of Hillary Clinton being the 45th President of the United States, as well as its likely unexpected prescience in predicting a new Potus at war with her intelligence communities. However, as the smoke clears from the fictional terrorist attack in last week’s Homeland, we are clearly entering a true alternative realm of events far removed from real-life Us politics.
This is actually a huge asset to Homeland, because for the first time since Brody died in season 3, I feel like the producers have a...
Homeland has rebounded from its previously mediocre seasons and found its feet again...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Star Trek: what can we expect from Bryan Fuller's new show? Star Trek: what do we want from the new TV series?
6.6 The Return
During the past five episodes of Homeland, I’ve been enjoying both the series’ premature expectation of Hillary Clinton being the 45th President of the United States, as well as its likely unexpected prescience in predicting a new Potus at war with her intelligence communities. However, as the smoke clears from the fictional terrorist attack in last week’s Homeland, we are clearly entering a true alternative realm of events far removed from real-life Us politics.
This is actually a huge asset to Homeland, because for the first time since Brody died in season 3, I feel like the producers have a...
- 2/27/2017
- Den of Geek
Back in August, Image Comics and Skybound resurrected Robert Kirkman’s Demonic in a new comic book series penned by Christopher Sebela, and this March they will release a trade paperback of the series’ first six issues.
Press Release: Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Escape from New York), artist Niko Walter, colorist Dan Brown (Wolverine Max, Ghost Rider), and letterer Sal Cipriano will release a trade paperback collection of their darkly twisting vigilante series Demonic this March from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.
Taking place in a world created by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman & The Darkness creator Marc Silvestri, Demonic is a sinister tale of curses, dark bargains, and sacrifice.
Detective Scott Graves will do anything to protect his family…even bargain away his soul. Now, the only thing to fear isn’t New York’s worst criminals, but what’s already raging inside of him.
Press Release: Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Escape from New York), artist Niko Walter, colorist Dan Brown (Wolverine Max, Ghost Rider), and letterer Sal Cipriano will release a trade paperback collection of their darkly twisting vigilante series Demonic this March from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.
Taking place in a world created by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman & The Darkness creator Marc Silvestri, Demonic is a sinister tale of curses, dark bargains, and sacrifice.
Detective Scott Graves will do anything to protect his family…even bargain away his soul. Now, the only thing to fear isn’t New York’s worst criminals, but what’s already raging inside of him.
- 2/8/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Pyrotechnics and Michael Fassbender can’t save this preposterous adaptation of the computer game
Director Justin Kurzel’s primal, blood-drenched assault on Macbeth in 2015 marked him out as a good fit to bring the computer game Assassin’s Creed to the big screen. He’s both an aggressive visual stylist and a propulsive storyteller. However, as Duncan Jones demonstrated with Warcraft last year, in computer game adaptations, the talent of the director – and both Jones and Kurzel are unquestionably talented – is of secondary importance if the screenplay doesn’t work.
Kurzel is particularly poorly served. The script is filled with logical leaps as reckless as any of the medieval parkour that sends the key characters scurrying over terracotta-tiled rooftops. With its portentous, declamatory dialogue and sound design perpetually cluttered with the crash of battle drums and clashing swords, it feels like a Dan Brown movie hopped up on a cocktail of steroids and mescaline.
Director Justin Kurzel’s primal, blood-drenched assault on Macbeth in 2015 marked him out as a good fit to bring the computer game Assassin’s Creed to the big screen. He’s both an aggressive visual stylist and a propulsive storyteller. However, as Duncan Jones demonstrated with Warcraft last year, in computer game adaptations, the talent of the director – and both Jones and Kurzel are unquestionably talented – is of secondary importance if the screenplay doesn’t work.
Kurzel is particularly poorly served. The script is filled with logical leaps as reckless as any of the medieval parkour that sends the key characters scurrying over terracotta-tiled rooftops. With its portentous, declamatory dialogue and sound design perpetually cluttered with the crash of battle drums and clashing swords, it feels like a Dan Brown movie hopped up on a cocktail of steroids and mescaline.
- 1/8/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
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Barring the lucrative Resident Evil franchise, Hollywood cinema has a spotty record when it comes to live-action video game movies – and that’s putting it kindly. From Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to the by-now infamous Super Mario Bros. film of ’93, the list of botched pixel ports stretches back for more than two decades, but even after this year’s so-so Warcraft, all eyes turned to Assassin’s Creed as the one adaptation to buck tradition. Spoilers: You’d be best tempering your expectations.
Even in the wake of last week’s largely positive fan reactions, the early critical consensus claims Assassin’s Creed will go down as another problematic video game movie for its po-faced screenplay and convoluted storytelling. Whether these reviews have much of a bearing on the film’s box office projections – let alone...
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Barring the lucrative Resident Evil franchise, Hollywood cinema has a spotty record when it comes to live-action video game movies – and that’s putting it kindly. From Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to the by-now infamous Super Mario Bros. film of ’93, the list of botched pixel ports stretches back for more than two decades, but even after this year’s so-so Warcraft, all eyes turned to Assassin’s Creed as the one adaptation to buck tradition. Spoilers: You’d be best tempering your expectations.
Even in the wake of last week’s largely positive fan reactions, the early critical consensus claims Assassin’s Creed will go down as another problematic video game movie for its po-faced screenplay and convoluted storytelling. Whether these reviews have much of a bearing on the film’s box office projections – let alone...
- 12/20/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
We’ve been saying here for some time that Assassin’s Creed is in something of an important position. Decades have gone by, and studios have tried their hand at making a solid video game adaptations many a time…and pretty much all have been unsuccessful. One can make an argument for the success of the Resident Evil franchise, but those films have too specific of a fanbase to truly be called successes.
Fast forward to now, and we have the likes of Assassin’s Creed. This is one of those video games that seemed perfectly tailor-made for the big screen. Between its story-driven nature and killer visuals, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be be a homerun for all parties involved — especially with such actors as Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, and Jeremy Irons behind it. Surely, this flick could open the floodgates to a whole new era of video game movies.
Fast forward to now, and we have the likes of Assassin’s Creed. This is one of those video games that seemed perfectly tailor-made for the big screen. Between its story-driven nature and killer visuals, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be be a homerun for all parties involved — especially with such actors as Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, and Jeremy Irons behind it. Surely, this flick could open the floodgates to a whole new era of video game movies.
- 12/19/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
This film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess
“What the fuck is going on?” mutters Michael Fassbender’s character through clenched teeth, reasonably early on in the course of this interminable film, based on the lucrative video game series Assassin’s Creed. You can imagine each of its stars – Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Essie Davis – saying much the same thing while looking through the script, before being directed to the fee on the last page of their contract. It’s an action movie, with dollops of thriller and splodges of Dan Brown conspiracy; and hardly five minutes go by without someone in a monk’s outfit doing a bit of sub-parkour jumping from the roof of one building to another. And yet it is at all times mysteriously, transcendentally boring.
I bet playing...
“What the fuck is going on?” mutters Michael Fassbender’s character through clenched teeth, reasonably early on in the course of this interminable film, based on the lucrative video game series Assassin’s Creed. You can imagine each of its stars – Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Essie Davis – saying much the same thing while looking through the script, before being directed to the fee on the last page of their contract. It’s an action movie, with dollops of thriller and splodges of Dan Brown conspiracy; and hardly five minutes go by without someone in a monk’s outfit doing a bit of sub-parkour jumping from the roof of one building to another. And yet it is at all times mysteriously, transcendentally boring.
I bet playing...
- 12/19/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Although they’re written like garbage, Dan Brown’s Langdon novels have always seemed like they would make fun movies: National Treasure meets Foucault’s Pendulum in an old point-and-click game. They’re all about Robert Langdon, a famous Harvard professor of symbology, which is a field Brown made up; you can tell because “symbology” and “symbologist” sound like mush in a spoken English sentence. In the Brownverse, where he is the smartest man alive, Langdon solves mysteries that involve the Catholic church, the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the World Health Organization. These are often uncovered in Italy, always with the help of museums and usually within a day. The books themselves are riddled with errors in history, geography, science, and grammar. Brown appears to have no editor, which doesn’t bother the majority of his millions of readers, and is the main point of attraction for the minority who...
- 10/27/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Ryan Lambie Oct 21, 2016
With major spoilers, Ron Howard talks exclusively to us about changing the ending of Dan Brown's Inferno for the big screen...
Nb: The following contains major, major spoilers for the book and movie adaptation of Inferno.
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Overpopulation, a manmade virus, amnesia, the epic poetry of Dante Alighieri: Dan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon novel gave its academic hero plenty of riddles to solve and crises to avert. But readers of the book may have noticed that the movie adaptation of Inferno - the third Langdon film to reach the big screen after The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons - changes the conclusion quite a bit.
While the build-up is broadly the same - a now-deceased billionaire has hidden a deadly virus somewhere,...
With major spoilers, Ron Howard talks exclusively to us about changing the ending of Dan Brown's Inferno for the big screen...
Nb: The following contains major, major spoilers for the book and movie adaptation of Inferno.
See related Michael Keaton headed to Kong: Skull Island Looking back at Peter Jackson's King Kong Godzilla Vs King Kong set for 2020
Overpopulation, a manmade virus, amnesia, the epic poetry of Dante Alighieri: Dan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon novel gave its academic hero plenty of riddles to solve and crises to avert. But readers of the book may have noticed that the movie adaptation of Inferno - the third Langdon film to reach the big screen after The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons - changes the conclusion quite a bit.
While the build-up is broadly the same - a now-deceased billionaire has hidden a deadly virus somewhere,...
- 10/20/2016
- Den of Geek
The third of Ron Howard’s Dan Brown capers adds nothing to a woeful franchise
Ron Howard and Tom Hanks reunite once more to follow the impossibly overwrought exploits of Harvard professor of symbology and art history, Robert Langdon. The third film to be based on Dan Brown’s series of thrillers is clumsily executed, preposterously plotted and powered by a score that appears to be in the grip of some kind of nervous breakdown. Which is to say, business as usual.
Related: Tom Hanks: political ignorance is the greatest threat to humanity
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Ron Howard and Tom Hanks reunite once more to follow the impossibly overwrought exploits of Harvard professor of symbology and art history, Robert Langdon. The third film to be based on Dan Brown’s series of thrillers is clumsily executed, preposterously plotted and powered by a score that appears to be in the grip of some kind of nervous breakdown. Which is to say, business as usual.
Related: Tom Hanks: political ignorance is the greatest threat to humanity
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- 10/16/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
This week saw critics pan the latest Dan Brown thriller, Inferno, the Guardian included. Can you match the following scathing critiques to the one-star films that received them?
”Napalms the screen with waves of pornographic consumerist vulgarity…dredged directly from Tinseltown’s festering scrotum.”
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Entourage
The Intern
Ted 2
"The whole dreary business drags interminably on, with not a single amusing or ingenious idea in its echoing metal head: a cynical franchisebot, machine-tooled to clank into cinemas and gouge money out of people."
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Terminator Genisys
"Could be one of those rare and terrifying serial killer cases where the psychotic culprit apparently intends to bore and embarrass everyone to death with bad acting."
Solace
Child 44
Regression
Criminal
"Blanchett gives a toe-curlingly awful and Razzie-worthy turn in this tiresome aria of liberal self-pity and self-importance.
”Napalms the screen with waves of pornographic consumerist vulgarity…dredged directly from Tinseltown’s festering scrotum.”
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Entourage
The Intern
Ted 2
"The whole dreary business drags interminably on, with not a single amusing or ingenious idea in its echoing metal head: a cynical franchisebot, machine-tooled to clank into cinemas and gouge money out of people."
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Terminator Genisys
"Could be one of those rare and terrifying serial killer cases where the psychotic culprit apparently intends to bore and embarrass everyone to death with bad acting."
Solace
Child 44
Regression
Criminal
"Blanchett gives a toe-curlingly awful and Razzie-worthy turn in this tiresome aria of liberal self-pity and self-importance.
- 10/14/2016
- by Aidan Mac Guill
- The Guardian - Film News
Ryan Lambie Published Date Monday, October 10, 2016 - 05:36
He’s the James Bond of problem solving: Robert Langdon, the renowned “symbologist”, scholar and unwitting man of action. The character’s previous silver screen adventures have taken in Vatican conspiracies (The Da Vinci Code) and stolen antimatter (Angels & Demons), with Tom Hanks bringing his affable everyman quality to the riddle-breaking professor.
In Langdon’s third movie adventure, again directed by Ron Howard and again adapted from a Dan Brown best-seller, a virus generated by a crazed billionaire (Ben Foster) threatens to wipe out half the world’s population - unless Langdon can solve a series of clues that will lead him to its hiding place. The problem is, Langdon’s just woken up in a Florentine hospital with a head injury and no idea how he got there. Fortunately for him, the doctor who wakes him up, Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones...
He’s the James Bond of problem solving: Robert Langdon, the renowned “symbologist”, scholar and unwitting man of action. The character’s previous silver screen adventures have taken in Vatican conspiracies (The Da Vinci Code) and stolen antimatter (Angels & Demons), with Tom Hanks bringing his affable everyman quality to the riddle-breaking professor.
In Langdon’s third movie adventure, again directed by Ron Howard and again adapted from a Dan Brown best-seller, a virus generated by a crazed billionaire (Ben Foster) threatens to wipe out half the world’s population - unless Langdon can solve a series of clues that will lead him to its hiding place. The problem is, Langdon’s just woken up in a Florentine hospital with a head injury and no idea how he got there. Fortunately for him, the doctor who wakes him up, Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones...
- 10/6/2016
- Den of Geek
MaryAnn’s quick take…
There’s not a lot new here, but the vintage footage is fab, as is the much-needed reminder that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent at all. I’m “biast” (pro): love the Beatles’s music (who doesn’t?)
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The band you know,” goes the tagline for The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, “the story you don’t.” Can that really be true? The Beatles have not authorized a feature-length documentary like this one since they broke up in 1970, but surely everyone knows pretty much everything about the bestsellingest band of all time, the band that kickstarted the cultural revolution of the 1960s and helped create a truly global pop culture. Don’t they? Everyone’s seen A Hard Day’s Night, right? I mean, I...
There’s not a lot new here, but the vintage footage is fab, as is the much-needed reminder that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent at all. I’m “biast” (pro): love the Beatles’s music (who doesn’t?)
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The band you know,” goes the tagline for The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, “the story you don’t.” Can that really be true? The Beatles have not authorized a feature-length documentary like this one since they broke up in 1970, but surely everyone knows pretty much everything about the bestsellingest band of all time, the band that kickstarted the cultural revolution of the 1960s and helped create a truly global pop culture. Don’t they? Everyone’s seen A Hard Day’s Night, right? I mean, I...
- 9/15/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...
This Past Weekend:
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...
- 9/14/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
From Harry Potter to Jason Bourne: our favorite movies from booksFrom Harry Potter to Jason Bourne: our favorite movies from booksScott Goodyer8/8/2016 4:21:00 Pm
Book worms rise up - it’s National Book Lovers day!
What book are you currently reading? A few of us over here right now are enjoying Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, Herman Koch’s Summer House with Swimming Pool and Emma Cline’s The Girls.
In honour of this glorious day, we wanted to celebrate by making a list of some great books that have made the jump over to the big screen.
If you have read these books but haven’t seen the movie, click on the titles to rent/buy them in our store!
1. The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy crime drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and adapted from the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name.
Book worms rise up - it’s National Book Lovers day!
What book are you currently reading? A few of us over here right now are enjoying Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, Herman Koch’s Summer House with Swimming Pool and Emma Cline’s The Girls.
In honour of this glorious day, we wanted to celebrate by making a list of some great books that have made the jump over to the big screen.
If you have read these books but haven’t seen the movie, click on the titles to rent/buy them in our store!
1. The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy crime drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and adapted from the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name.
- 8/8/2016
- by Scott Goodyer
- Cineplex
Comic Book Reviews: Marvel Round-Up Week 07-20-2016
After a nice vacation overseas, I’ve returned to see how much has Civil War II invaded the nice worlds of my favorite comic book series! In some cases it’s bad! And in others, not so bad. Regardless, I know a bunch of big changes are coming to the Marvel U, and Civil War II is just the tip of the iceberg. So sit back, read some reviews and see if anything strikes your fancy this week!
A-Force #7
Story: Kelly Thompson Art: Ben Caldwell, Scott Hanna Colors: Ian Herring
Review: We are finally getting the wrap up issue of the Countess Saga! Not an official name, just what I’m calling it. For the past several issues, we’ve seen the team completely fail to stop the Villainess and become powerless to the mind controlled Nico. Well no more! Kelly...
After a nice vacation overseas, I’ve returned to see how much has Civil War II invaded the nice worlds of my favorite comic book series! In some cases it’s bad! And in others, not so bad. Regardless, I know a bunch of big changes are coming to the Marvel U, and Civil War II is just the tip of the iceberg. So sit back, read some reviews and see if anything strikes your fancy this week!
A-Force #7
Story: Kelly Thompson Art: Ben Caldwell, Scott Hanna Colors: Ian Herring
Review: We are finally getting the wrap up issue of the Countess Saga! Not an official name, just what I’m calling it. For the past several issues, we’ve seen the team completely fail to stop the Villainess and become powerless to the mind controlled Nico. Well no more! Kelly...
- 7/27/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Poland has been the source of a surprising number of slickly produced, commercially minded crime thrillers in recent years and that string looks to continue with the imminent arrival of Mariusz Gawryś' Servant Of God (Sługi boże). Just the second directorial effort from the industry veteran Gawryś - his writing credits stretch back into the mid 90s - the film tracks the investigation of a young German woman thrown from the tower of the church in Wroclaw. Throw in some jurisdictional clashes and a secret investigation involving the Vatican Bank and you have the makings of something that feels like equal parts Nordic Noir and Dan Brown novel. The first teaser for this one has freshly arrived and while it doesn't include subtitles there are...
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- 7/18/2016
- Screen Anarchy
This week I try to find some diamonds in the rough of Civil War Ii mania! Can Power Man Luke Cage Fly? What happened to Banner after Amadeus became the Hulk? Is Hank Pym really back? All these questions answered and more! Got a book you’ve been thinking about reading but want to know more before picking it up? Let me know and I’ll review a few issues for you!
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Captain America: Sam Wilson #10
Story: Nick Spencer Art: Angel Unzueta Colors: Cris Peter
Review: Nick Spencer has been writing a really fun series here staring Sam Wilson as Captain America and all the trials and tribulations he has to go through carrying that moniker. Sam is a very different Cap, whereas Steve Rogers would try to stay out of the politics unless needed Sam is very much calling people...
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Captain America: Sam Wilson #10
Story: Nick Spencer Art: Angel Unzueta Colors: Cris Peter
Review: Nick Spencer has been writing a really fun series here staring Sam Wilson as Captain America and all the trials and tribulations he has to go through carrying that moniker. Sam is a very different Cap, whereas Steve Rogers would try to stay out of the politics unless needed Sam is very much calling people...
- 6/25/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
In the new trailer for “Inferno,” Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones try to uncover a deadly plague that has the potential to wipe out half of the world’s population. The trailer reveals new footage showing professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) being briefed on a situation, analyzing the map of Dante’s Hell and traveling to Florence to find the death mask of Dante Alighieri. The problem is, it seems that someone stole the mask — and that someone is Langdon. Hanks and Jones star in the third movie based on Dan Brown‘s series of novels, following “The Da Vinci Code...
- 6/23/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Cameras are rolling on Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman follow-up Justice League, which plans to spread its story out over two movies. Dividing massive studio films into two is becoming rather commonplace now, and has spawned a new dilemma for filmmakers; how to name those installments.
Thanks to a new report from Heroic Hollywood, we might have a clue about the direction Warner Bros. is headed in. It’s grain of salt time, folks, as the site’s scoopster has unearthed four rumored titles for Snyder’s first chapter. None of the suggested subtitles have been verified by Snyder or anyone at Warner Bros. Yet, but it’s nevertheless worth reading on if you enjoy a dip into speculation land.
According to Hh, the titles are as follows:
Justice League: United Justice League: Angels and Demons Justice League: Gods Among Us and Justice League: Gods...
Thanks to a new report from Heroic Hollywood, we might have a clue about the direction Warner Bros. is headed in. It’s grain of salt time, folks, as the site’s scoopster has unearthed four rumored titles for Snyder’s first chapter. None of the suggested subtitles have been verified by Snyder or anyone at Warner Bros. Yet, but it’s nevertheless worth reading on if you enjoy a dip into speculation land.
According to Hh, the titles are as follows:
Justice League: United Justice League: Angels and Demons Justice League: Gods Among Us and Justice League: Gods...
- 6/3/2016
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Robert Kirkman’s 2010 one-shot comic book, Demonic, is being expanded into a six-issue series from Skybound Entertainment. Written by Christopher Sebela this time around, the first issue of Demonic is teased in a new set of preview pages ahead of its August 26th release:
Press Release: Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce the sinister, all-new series Demonic co-created by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri, written by Eisner Award-nominated Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Escape from New York), and with debut artist Niko Walter, colorist Dan Brown (Wolverine Max, Ghost Rider), and letterer Sal Cipriano set to launch this August 2016.
In Demonic, Detective Scott Graves will do anything to protect his family… even bargain away his soul. Now, the only thing to fear isn’t New York’s worst criminals, but what’s already raging inside of him. After all, what’s the cost of your soul when it’s already damaged?...
Press Release: Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce the sinister, all-new series Demonic co-created by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri, written by Eisner Award-nominated Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Escape from New York), and with debut artist Niko Walter, colorist Dan Brown (Wolverine Max, Ghost Rider), and letterer Sal Cipriano set to launch this August 2016.
In Demonic, Detective Scott Graves will do anything to protect his family… even bargain away his soul. Now, the only thing to fear isn’t New York’s worst criminals, but what’s already raging inside of him. After all, what’s the cost of your soul when it’s already damaged?...
- 5/18/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Synopsis:
On the road to Civil War II! The Ultimates deal with the fallout from their journey Outside - and the return of the Anti-Man! Meanwhile, Project: Pegasus holds the key to humanity's survival... or destruction...and Thanos is coming for it!
Review:
A sort of “mission” statement from Al Ewing and Ken Rocafort from back in the first issue of The Ultimates was how they wanted to harken back to the Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch series. They wanted to create big cinematic set pieces and deal with large scale issues. That’s a very good idea, but the execution of that idea? Not so much.
I enjoy my space cosmic drama. I like Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova. I really enjoy Venom Spaceknight and Captain Marvel, but I just can’t get into this series. I’m not a fan of how Black Panther is written- he...
On the road to Civil War II! The Ultimates deal with the fallout from their journey Outside - and the return of the Anti-Man! Meanwhile, Project: Pegasus holds the key to humanity's survival... or destruction...and Thanos is coming for it!
Review:
A sort of “mission” statement from Al Ewing and Ken Rocafort from back in the first issue of The Ultimates was how they wanted to harken back to the Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch series. They wanted to create big cinematic set pieces and deal with large scale issues. That’s a very good idea, but the execution of that idea? Not so much.
I enjoy my space cosmic drama. I like Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova. I really enjoy Venom Spaceknight and Captain Marvel, but I just can’t get into this series. I’m not a fan of how Black Panther is written- he...
- 5/13/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
It didn’t show up in the Cannes line-up as some predicted, but we won’t have to wait too long for Terrence Malick’s long-gestating Voyage of Time. The Ennio Morricone-scored project — which is technically two films, one a more educational 40-minute IMAX version narrated by Brad Pitt and the other a feature-length cut narrated by Cate Blanchett — is described as “a celebration of the earth – from the birth of the universe to its final collapse.”
Finally, we have our first official confirmation on when it will arrive. Buried deep in an IMAX press release (via One Big Soul) about its first quarter 2016 earnings, they reveal that an October 7th, 2016 release is set for the IMAX version, which now makes a Tiff and/or Venice premiere likely. With only IMAX reporting now, there isn’t an update regarding the feature-length version, but hopefully distributor Broad Green Pictures will...
Finally, we have our first official confirmation on when it will arrive. Buried deep in an IMAX press release (via One Big Soul) about its first quarter 2016 earnings, they reveal that an October 7th, 2016 release is set for the IMAX version, which now makes a Tiff and/or Venice premiere likely. With only IMAX reporting now, there isn’t an update regarding the feature-length version, but hopefully distributor Broad Green Pictures will...
- 5/1/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A tad dated and scattershot, but the messy package is inventively absurd… and unlike many Hollywood comedies, able to carry that absurdity to a silly end. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I barely remember Zoolander — it was 15 years ago, after all, and I haven’t seen it since — so I can’t exactly say if I’m surprised or not that I got a big kick out of Z2. It’s true that this overdue sequel feels a tad dated: its humor is at its best when it is snarking about how out of touch has-been 1990s supermodels Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller: While We’re Young) and Hansel (Owen Wilson: No Escape) are with 2016’s fads and fashions as they come out of reclusive retirement in a hoped-for comeback. One joke with massive potential to painfully backfire,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I barely remember Zoolander — it was 15 years ago, after all, and I haven’t seen it since — so I can’t exactly say if I’m surprised or not that I got a big kick out of Z2. It’s true that this overdue sequel feels a tad dated: its humor is at its best when it is snarking about how out of touch has-been 1990s supermodels Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller: While We’re Young) and Hansel (Owen Wilson: No Escape) are with 2016’s fads and fashions as they come out of reclusive retirement in a hoped-for comeback. One joke with massive potential to painfully backfire,...
- 2/12/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Ultimates #3
Written by Al Ewing
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
Colors by Dan Brown
Letters by Joe Sabino
Published by Marvel Comics
A ramification is defined as “a consequence of an action or event, especially when complex or unwelcome.”
That word can describe all of the issues of a comic or book following a supposedly Earth-shattering event. Ultimates gives us the said Earth-shattering, and it’s only been out for three issues now.
After giving Galactus the Destroyer Life-Bringer a new design and a more worthwhile title, Ultimates #3 picks up on the lasting issues this could bring for the entire cosmos at large, and the first party to notice this is none other than the Shi’ar Imperial Guard. From the start, Kenneth Rocafort’s unique brand of art with Dan Brown on colors is built to give the feeling of anything being possible. Everything that happens is larger than...
Written by Al Ewing
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
Colors by Dan Brown
Letters by Joe Sabino
Published by Marvel Comics
A ramification is defined as “a consequence of an action or event, especially when complex or unwelcome.”
That word can describe all of the issues of a comic or book following a supposedly Earth-shattering event. Ultimates gives us the said Earth-shattering, and it’s only been out for three issues now.
After giving Galactus the Destroyer Life-Bringer a new design and a more worthwhile title, Ultimates #3 picks up on the lasting issues this could bring for the entire cosmos at large, and the first party to notice this is none other than the Shi’ar Imperial Guard. From the start, Kenneth Rocafort’s unique brand of art with Dan Brown on colors is built to give the feeling of anything being possible. Everything that happens is larger than...
- 1/7/2016
- by Terrence Sage
- SoundOnSight
The Ultimates #2
Written by Al Ewing
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
Colors by Dan Brown
Letters by Joe Sabino
Published by Marvel Comics
“The impossible is where they start.” That’s the tagline for Ultimates on the recap page given to us by Blue Marvel. The first outing for the team is definitely a daunting one because the Ultimates are solving the Galactus Problem whether the big purple colossal titan likes it or not.
The story focuses back in on T’challa and his Royal Guards at the Triskelion HQ where even Kenneth Rocafort manages to squeeze every detail out of the pages no matter how big or small and even more so in the entire cast of both humans and alien! All vary to different degrees, and all of their features are identifiable thanks also in part to Dan Brown on colors. The aptly named title of this issue is...
Written by Al Ewing
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
Colors by Dan Brown
Letters by Joe Sabino
Published by Marvel Comics
“The impossible is where they start.” That’s the tagline for Ultimates on the recap page given to us by Blue Marvel. The first outing for the team is definitely a daunting one because the Ultimates are solving the Galactus Problem whether the big purple colossal titan likes it or not.
The story focuses back in on T’challa and his Royal Guards at the Triskelion HQ where even Kenneth Rocafort manages to squeeze every detail out of the pages no matter how big or small and even more so in the entire cast of both humans and alien! All vary to different degrees, and all of their features are identifiable thanks also in part to Dan Brown on colors. The aptly named title of this issue is...
- 12/11/2015
- by Terrence Sage
- SoundOnSight
The Ultimates #1
Written by Al Ewing
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
Colors by Dan Brown
Letters by Joe Sabino
Published by Marvel Comics
Part of the solicitation for Ultimates #1 says: “The ultimate superteam comes together to find and fix problems beyond the limits of the infinite!”, and boy do Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort deliver on this front.
The comic opens with Blue Marvel throwing more scientific terms at readers than in all of Jonathan Hickman’s run of Avengers that started 3 years ago. Iso-8, a substance only seen in the Marvel Contest of Champions mobile game gets a canonical debut as Blue explains this isometric form is because of the event that happened eight months ago (The finale to Secret Wars we’ve yet to witness.) Kenneth Rocafort and Dan Brown explode all over this issue with the dynamite color and detail that goes into every inch and space for each page.
Written by Al Ewing
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
Colors by Dan Brown
Letters by Joe Sabino
Published by Marvel Comics
Part of the solicitation for Ultimates #1 says: “The ultimate superteam comes together to find and fix problems beyond the limits of the infinite!”, and boy do Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort deliver on this front.
The comic opens with Blue Marvel throwing more scientific terms at readers than in all of Jonathan Hickman’s run of Avengers that started 3 years ago. Iso-8, a substance only seen in the Marvel Contest of Champions mobile game gets a canonical debut as Blue explains this isometric form is because of the event that happened eight months ago (The finale to Secret Wars we’ve yet to witness.) Kenneth Rocafort and Dan Brown explode all over this issue with the dynamite color and detail that goes into every inch and space for each page.
- 11/12/2015
- by Terrence Sage
- SoundOnSight
Recently, CBS served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Scorpion" episode 7 of season 2. The episode is entitled, "Crazy Train," and it turns out that we're going to see some very intense and high drama stuff go down as Paige and Walter get trapped in a sabotaged subway train, prompting the Scorpion crew to race to action, and more! In the new, 7th episode press release: Team Scorpion Must Stop A Sabotaged Runaway Subway Train Carrying Paige And Ralph, On "Scorpion," Monday, Nov. 2. Press release number 2: Team Scorpion are going to have to stop a sabotaged runaway subway train with Paige and Ralph on board. Also, in his attempt to impress Happy, Toby is going to have his first boxing match. Guest stars feature: Kevin Weisman (Ray), Pete Giovine (Chet), Libby Ewing (Sarah), Dominic Ruggieri (Tyler), Frederick, Lawrence (Construction Worker), Lenny Citrano (Jasper), Richard Varga (James Taggit...
- 10/26/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
This often gets me some judgmental glances from the more literary-minded people I know, who prefer their reading to be more like art and less like entertainment, but I am a fan of the novels of Dan Brown. His books might not have the most elegant of prose, but they are easy to read and packed with plot twists and turns that fly by fast enough to give you whiplash. Nearly every chapter ends in a cliffhanger epic enough to make you unable to put the book down until you’ve read another chapter, and then another, until the next thing you know you’ve finished a novel packed with enough empty calories to make you feel as though you just binged on an entire bag of Cheetos.
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- 9/6/2015
- by Lee Jutton
- JustPressPlay.net
From Zoolander 2 to 23 Jump Street, with 100s in-between. Here's our rundown of the assorted movie sequels in the works...
Think Hollywood is bereft of original ideas? You just might after this. Here's our look at the assorted movie sequels currently in the works. Since we last did a list like this, we've dropped films that seem to have died a death - Wanted 2, Spring Breakers 2 - but we'll keep this rundown up to date over the coming month.
Without further ado...
23 Jump Street
Sony is pressing ahead with a third Jump Street movie, as well as a possible Jump Street vs Men In Black film, and a female-headlined spin-off. For 23 Jump Street specifically, Rodney Rothman is back and working on the script (he wrote the second one). It's unclear yet if Chris Miller and Phil Lord can find breathing space in their schedule to direct. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are both expected back,...
Think Hollywood is bereft of original ideas? You just might after this. Here's our look at the assorted movie sequels currently in the works. Since we last did a list like this, we've dropped films that seem to have died a death - Wanted 2, Spring Breakers 2 - but we'll keep this rundown up to date over the coming month.
Without further ado...
23 Jump Street
Sony is pressing ahead with a third Jump Street movie, as well as a possible Jump Street vs Men In Black film, and a female-headlined spin-off. For 23 Jump Street specifically, Rodney Rothman is back and working on the script (he wrote the second one). It's unclear yet if Chris Miller and Phil Lord can find breathing space in their schedule to direct. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are both expected back,...
- 6/18/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
2015 has been quite the eclectic year for comics, and this fact is reflected in our top ten list. Image Comics continues to be the true house of ideas with books ranging from a feminist twist on exploitation films to a murder mystery set in 1940s Hollywood and even a Lgbtq-friendly parody of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Even though they are in the middle of big events (Convergence and Secret Wars), DC and Marvel respectively still have room for offbeat takes on their iconic or not so iconic characters and are represented on this list along with Valiant, which has attracted a veritable Murderer’s Row of creator to shape and develop their shared universe.
Here are the top ten comics of 2015 so far.
10. Wytches (Image)
Wytches #4-6
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Jock
Colors by Matt Hollingsworth
Wytches is without a doubt the best new horror comic of the year.
Here are the top ten comics of 2015 so far.
10. Wytches (Image)
Wytches #4-6
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Jock
Colors by Matt Hollingsworth
Wytches is without a doubt the best new horror comic of the year.
- 6/1/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
Film and TV is guilty of instilling us with wanderlust, throwing up amazing locations from all over the world and leaving us wishing nothing more than to jump straight on a plane to distant climes.
Here are some stunning destinations from movies and shows (all ready to check out on Netflix now) that have us eyeing our suitcases with longing:
The Florida Keys - Bloodline
An amazing chain of tropical islands hanging from the tip of Florida, connected by a series of bridges running all the way to Key West and frequently offering amazing views of both sunrise and sunset.
It's the perfect temperate getaway, as long as you don't get entangled with the dysfunctional Rayburn family, that is.
New York City - Manhattan
From the opening peals of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue', Woody Allen classic Manhattan is pure New York City from head to toe.
Diane Keaton...
Here are some stunning destinations from movies and shows (all ready to check out on Netflix now) that have us eyeing our suitcases with longing:
The Florida Keys - Bloodline
An amazing chain of tropical islands hanging from the tip of Florida, connected by a series of bridges running all the way to Key West and frequently offering amazing views of both sunrise and sunset.
It's the perfect temperate getaway, as long as you don't get entangled with the dysfunctional Rayburn family, that is.
New York City - Manhattan
From the opening peals of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue', Woody Allen classic Manhattan is pure New York City from head to toe.
Diane Keaton...
- 5/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Moon Knight #13
Written by Cullen Bunn
Pencils by Ron Ackins; Inks by Tom Palmer, Walden Wong, & Victor Olazaba
Colors by Dan Brown
Published by Marvel Comics
A latest “arc” of Moon Knight begins with the new creative team of Cullen Bunn and Ron Ackins. The title is quite a strange one. Given the majority of the big two’s output is overpopulated with comics deliberately written to fit into a six issue trade paperbacks a regular series from Marvel comprised of self-contained stories and only the barest of inter-issue continuity is nearly alien. While trying to follow up from the excellent run by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey is quite the Herculean feat but it’s safe to say the team is more than qualified for the task.
Bunn does a masterful job to match the haunting howling mood set the previous writers but also makes it his own. The...
Written by Cullen Bunn
Pencils by Ron Ackins; Inks by Tom Palmer, Walden Wong, & Victor Olazaba
Colors by Dan Brown
Published by Marvel Comics
A latest “arc” of Moon Knight begins with the new creative team of Cullen Bunn and Ron Ackins. The title is quite a strange one. Given the majority of the big two’s output is overpopulated with comics deliberately written to fit into a six issue trade paperbacks a regular series from Marvel comprised of self-contained stories and only the barest of inter-issue continuity is nearly alien. While trying to follow up from the excellent run by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey is quite the Herculean feat but it’s safe to say the team is more than qualified for the task.
Bunn does a masterful job to match the haunting howling mood set the previous writers but also makes it his own. The...
- 3/22/2015
- by Grant Raycroft
- SoundOnSight
"The Big Bang Theory" did an episode in which Amy ruins "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for Sheldon by pointing out that for all of the action and adventure, "Indiana Jones plays no role in the outcome of the story. If he weren’t in the film, it would turn out exactly the same." I've watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark" subsequently and, thankfully, Amy didn't actually ruin the movie. I can't dispute her regarding the main character's agency, but it's still an awesome movie, one of the genre's most thrilling achievements. You cannot, it turns out, ruin "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by pointing out a structure flaw. You also, fortunately, cannot ruin "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by doing a dreadful story about nefarious forces searching for the Ark of the Covenant, or Ark-adjacent artifacts. But if you could ruin "Raiders of the Lost Ark" merely by desecrating its dramatic objective,...
- 3/5/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
I didn't particularly enjoyed either of the two previous Dan Brown novel adaptations, not The Da Vinci Code (a book that was so bad I had to stop reading it) or Angels and Demons (a book I actually enjoyed and a movie that was even worse than Da Vinci). Next up is Inferno, with Tom Hanks back to star as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and Ron Howard back to direct. Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) was already announced as a co-star and today Sony announced three more names joining the cast and they are, in fact, reason to possibly get interested. First off, Jones will star opposite Hanks as Dr. Sienna Brooks, a doctor tending to Langdon at the beginning of the story after he's grazed by a bullet and eventually becomes mixed in his latest mystery drawing from Dante's dark epic poem. amz asin="B00AXIZ4TQ" size...
- 2/17/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
We head back to Hogwarts, and try and sort out the Harry Potter films. Is Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets the best one, then?
This article contains spoilers for the Harry Potter movies.
The Harry Potter films didn’t need to be good.
The books were already a phenomenon. Only Twilight and Dan Brown’s novels have resulted in midnight openings at bookshops across the world in recent years, and when you look at their film adaptations (Angels And Demons grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, despite being Angels And Demons), it’s clear: the Harry Potter films didn’t actually have to try that hard to be a success.
Across eight films, they told the story of death-magnet legend boy Harry Potter and his loyal flame-locked sidekick Ron as they courted whimsical oblivion on a roughly yearly basis, getting rescued repeatedly by Girl Guide/Wikipedia hybrid Hermione Granger. They...
This article contains spoilers for the Harry Potter movies.
The Harry Potter films didn’t need to be good.
The books were already a phenomenon. Only Twilight and Dan Brown’s novels have resulted in midnight openings at bookshops across the world in recent years, and when you look at their film adaptations (Angels And Demons grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, despite being Angels And Demons), it’s clear: the Harry Potter films didn’t actually have to try that hard to be a success.
Across eight films, they told the story of death-magnet legend boy Harry Potter and his loyal flame-locked sidekick Ron as they courted whimsical oblivion on a roughly yearly basis, getting rescued repeatedly by Girl Guide/Wikipedia hybrid Hermione Granger. They...
- 2/4/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Mortdecai director David Koepp chats to us about the film, along with Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible & more.
This piece contains spoilers for Snake Eyes and Mission: Impossible (the first one)
David Koepp has a rather solid CV as a director, including Secret Window with Johnny Depp, the underrated ghost story Stir Of Echoes, and the really fun Joseph Gordon-Levitt bike messenger action film Premium Rush. But as a screenwriter, he’s worked on some of the biggest films of the last 25 years – Jurassic Park and its sequel, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Angels and Demons, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
He’s also had a hand in other notable Hollywood hits (and flops) including Carlito’s Way, The Shadow, Snake Eyes, Zathura, Panic Room, Death Becomes Her, and many, many more. He’s had a fascinating career.
His latest directorial effort is Mortdecai, a...
This piece contains spoilers for Snake Eyes and Mission: Impossible (the first one)
David Koepp has a rather solid CV as a director, including Secret Window with Johnny Depp, the underrated ghost story Stir Of Echoes, and the really fun Joseph Gordon-Levitt bike messenger action film Premium Rush. But as a screenwriter, he’s worked on some of the biggest films of the last 25 years – Jurassic Park and its sequel, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Angels and Demons, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
He’s also had a hand in other notable Hollywood hits (and flops) including Carlito’s Way, The Shadow, Snake Eyes, Zathura, Panic Room, Death Becomes Her, and many, many more. He’s had a fascinating career.
His latest directorial effort is Mortdecai, a...
- 1/22/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Move over, J.K. Rowling. Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, has made a name for herself as a fashion and beauty vlogger, but now she's a best-selling author as well. The 24-year-old YouTube star's debut novel, Girl Online, sold more than 78,000 copies in its first week, making the fastest-selling novel for a first-time author in the U.K., according to Nielsen BookScan. "It's such an amazing feeling," Sugg said of the news. "I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of Girl Online." She added: "I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book! This year has...
- 12/3/2014
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
Move over, J.K. Rowling. Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, has made a name for herself as a fashion and beauty vlogger, but now she's a best-selling author as well. The 24-year-old YouTube star's debut novel, Girl Online, sold more than 78,000 copies in its first week, making the fastest-selling novel for a first-time author in the U.K., according to Nielsen BookScan. "It's such an amazing feeling," Sugg said of the news. "I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of Girl Online." She added: "I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book! This year has...
- 12/3/2014
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
It’s a bit of a puzzler why I find myself reviewing comics for kids on a website called Destroy The Brain. Not that I’m going to pretend that none of my readers have kids and would be interested in comics for kids. But the weird thing is that I don’t have kids or ever want to have kids. It’s nothing personal, kids. I’m just barely responsible enough to manage my own perpetual catastrophe (aka life) so there’s a snowball’s chance in Hell I’d be capable of doing so for another lifeform, much less want to. But! I do have two nieces and two nephews, the oldest of whom is just the right age to read comics! That said, I’m not actually sure the comics I’ve reviewing are up his alley honestly, as he’s more a superhero fan than anything.
- 11/24/2014
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
One Week. Seven Days.
My plans for the next seven days are, if I must say, pretty epic. First off, I’m going to be doing a special column for Destroy The Brain, in which I finally watch and review Halloween III and Halloween H20, neither of which I’ve seen, making me a pretty poor horror movie fan. Along with those reviews, I’ll be talking about a pumpkin beer that I’m looking forward to big time as well. But then, at the end of the week, myself and a friend are going down to Saint Genevieve in southern Missouri for a brewery tour and to take in the very old and beautiful city at a time of year when the veil between past and present is thinnest. I even have have a costume all picked out: I’m going to be an executioner.
Get it?
Predator: Fire...
My plans for the next seven days are, if I must say, pretty epic. First off, I’m going to be doing a special column for Destroy The Brain, in which I finally watch and review Halloween III and Halloween H20, neither of which I’ve seen, making me a pretty poor horror movie fan. Along with those reviews, I’ll be talking about a pumpkin beer that I’m looking forward to big time as well. But then, at the end of the week, myself and a friend are going down to Saint Genevieve in southern Missouri for a brewery tour and to take in the very old and beautiful city at a time of year when the veil between past and present is thinnest. I even have have a costume all picked out: I’m going to be an executioner.
Get it?
Predator: Fire...
- 10/24/2014
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
Teen Titans is three issues into its relaunch and the team’s situation just keeps getting more and more perilous. A killer robot attacks Raven in broad nightlight as she relaxes at a punk rock show. She calls on the rest of the gang for backup. All signs are pointing at S.T.A.R. Labs as the instigator of the incident and Red Robin begins to investigate.
Writer Will Pfeifer pulls out all the stops in Teen Titans #3. The issue moves quickly and does what any good comic book should. It leaves you wanting more and gripping the edge of your seat. There’s plenty of interweaving drama and character interaction to keep readers engaged.
Teen Titans #3 is obviously targeted to teenagers. The way the narrative flows and the overall atmosphere of the book seeks to relate to youth who feel disenfranchised. It shows that even super heroes have...
Writer Will Pfeifer pulls out all the stops in Teen Titans #3. The issue moves quickly and does what any good comic book should. It leaves you wanting more and gripping the edge of your seat. There’s plenty of interweaving drama and character interaction to keep readers engaged.
Teen Titans #3 is obviously targeted to teenagers. The way the narrative flows and the overall atmosphere of the book seeks to relate to youth who feel disenfranchised. It shows that even super heroes have...
- 10/18/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
In Darkness We Fall
Written by Javier Gullón and Alfredo Montero
Directed by Afredo Montero
Spain, 2014
The found footage genre gets an Iberian injection in La cueva, retitled In Darkness We Fall for English-speaking markets, which is playing in the Cult movie strand of this years London Film Festival. Certain specific Spanish atrocities have been well-received by genre fans over the past few years, so the textbook found footage premise may initially raise hackles, yet could be mined for some forlorn hope of entombed originality.
Five twenty-something friends share an impromptu vacation to a remote Spanish island — a spot of hiking here, a splurge of boozing there — all in order to escape broken relationships and stalled careers back in the real ‘adult’ world. After a heavy night of partying, one of the more passive-aggressive members urges the crew to follow him into an uninviting and stiflingly remote cavern, an idea...
Written by Javier Gullón and Alfredo Montero
Directed by Afredo Montero
Spain, 2014
The found footage genre gets an Iberian injection in La cueva, retitled In Darkness We Fall for English-speaking markets, which is playing in the Cult movie strand of this years London Film Festival. Certain specific Spanish atrocities have been well-received by genre fans over the past few years, so the textbook found footage premise may initially raise hackles, yet could be mined for some forlorn hope of entombed originality.
Five twenty-something friends share an impromptu vacation to a remote Spanish island — a spot of hiking here, a splurge of boozing there — all in order to escape broken relationships and stalled careers back in the real ‘adult’ world. After a heavy night of partying, one of the more passive-aggressive members urges the crew to follow him into an uninviting and stiflingly remote cavern, an idea...
- 10/9/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
At Baltimore Comic Con, I got the opportunity to chat with up and coming comics writer Marguerite Bennett about her projects past, present, and future for companies including Marvel, DC, and Boom! We also discussed her mentor Scott Snyder (Batman, The Wake), Batman: The Animated Series, and her time at the University of Mary Washington, which happens to be the college I am currently attending.
SoS: What was the first comic you ever read? How old were you? What was the context?
Marguerite Bennett: This isn’t exactly a comic, but Batman: The Animated Series was my big hook into the Bat-universe. after that, my friend Travis Covey would show me single issues from things like X-Men and Spawn. They were always completely out of the arc they were a part of so I’d be six years old going through these pages with no concept of what was going on.
SoS: What was the first comic you ever read? How old were you? What was the context?
Marguerite Bennett: This isn’t exactly a comic, but Batman: The Animated Series was my big hook into the Bat-universe. after that, my friend Travis Covey would show me single issues from things like X-Men and Spawn. They were always completely out of the arc they were a part of so I’d be six years old going through these pages with no concept of what was going on.
- 9/7/2014
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Portmanteaus like "bookaholic" and "herogram" made it into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014, and if a Los Angeles-based comedian has his way, we'll see a few similar neologisms enter the public lexicon in 2015. Patrick Moote is the man behind Word of the Week, where he invents new sayings to cover common situations. Moote's words often relate to common web series topics like male bonding and dating mishaps. For each one, he and co-writer Dan Brown (no, not that one) craft a two-minute scene that explains the definition of the word and paints a situation where it might come into play. It's like a spelling bee for twenty-something city dwellers. Moote is no stranger to portmanteaus; his most well known project is UnHung Hero, a film about his status among the less-than-well-endowed. The movie's subtitle calls it a "cockumentary", a term that could very well take its place alongside "Dishagreement", "Textlation...
- 9/6/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
We cover a lot of ground in today's podcast and yet it still fell just short of the two hour mark and we really tried. That said, today we hold the Fall Box Office Draft, we review Frank and Starred Up and revisit The Trip to Italy as Laremy caught it this week and had a few things to say. We also play our regular assortment of games including the longest "Buy or Sell" edition ever, plus clear out a backlog of "Watch This or Watch That". Also included is a conversation as to whether you can be too apologetic in reviews, a listen to the trailer for Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas and even a voicemail sneaks in. We hope you enjoy. If you are on Twitter, we have a Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that...
- 8/29/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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