It’s going to happen some day. Computers will become so advanced they will become aware. How it will happen is anyone’s guess but in Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence it happens when the consciousness of a scientist is implanted into a machine. From the trailer released this evening by Warner Bros. even with the best…
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) can’t sleep in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 and that should tell you plenty about where we’re headed as Marvel rounds the home plate in its triumphant wrap-up to Phase 1 of its universe. The self-described “genius billionaire playboy philanthropist” is beset by anxiety attacks and bad dreams, attempting to…
There are still two months to go before Iron Man 3 reaches theaters, so to keep the armored crusader on the mind of moviegoers everywhere the marketing department of Walt Disney Studios has released a second action-packed trailer. The Mandarin played by Ben Kingsley plays a more prominent role this time around, showing fully his…
Tony Stark, everyone’s favorite egotistical playboy and savior of the world, is making an appearance in a little movie titled Iron Man 3. Today Marvel and Disney unveiled the first trailer for the blockbuster and it delivers. Due in 2013, the armored superhero (played again by Robert Downey Jr.) supposedly after his “Avengers” adventure, faces…
20th century author and poet, Raymond Carver, is oftentimes recognized for his impact on short story writing. In the 1980s, when the medium first began to falter, short stories had become a tough sell for publications because of their briefness, however, that did not stop the author, who had admitted to being “inclined to brevity…
If you attended the Toronto International Film Festival or the London Film Festival last year you would have caught a viewing of the comedy-drama Everything Must Go. For those of us who didn’t attend either, this fresh trailer provides a glimpse into Nick Halsey’s really crappy situation. In a single day he’s lost his job,…
There’s one scene in Tim Burton’s Big Fish in which Ewan McGregor and Steve Buscemi’s characters rob a bank only to find out that the vault has been wiped clean and that the bank is on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, while that film was mediocre at best, that one scene, which is satirical of…
