With all of our advances in engineering and science, why haven’t we been back to the moon? The upcoming movie Apollo 18 offers up a reason. Aliens. From the first theatrical trailer for the film we see there was a secret mission after Apollo 17, which ended . . . mysteriously. Pieced together from archival…
A new trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger has been made available by Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures. Like the previous trailers, the action is toned down and more emphasis is put towards the back story of how Steve Rogers morphs into the iconic Captain America. Truth be told I initially was as high…
You know a movie, where the main plot line is skipping school, is bad when the main character tells the audience there are “rules” to such activities. And unless that character is Ferris Bueller, the viewers — for the most part — should just ignore those guidelines. I’ll even go a step further. The Art…
Dancing, they say, can change the world. Kevin Bacon used it to change the little town of Bomont in 1984’s “Footloose.” Kenny Wormald gets to do it in the remake, although I’m not quite sure why. MTV’s telling of Footloose, of which the trailer was released today, updates the dance moves and the kids’ ever…
It’s surprising that The Roommate wasn’t entitled Single White Female: The College Years, since this flick is pretty much just a Single White Female redux for which the filmmakers trimmed a few years off the cast and, just to be safe, also trimmed down characterizations, logic, etc. Simply put, The Roommate is unbearable and uncreative,…
A friend of mine once argued about the redundancy behind DC Comics; its name, he claimed, originally stood for Detective Comics, thus by adding an extra ‘comics’ at the end, one is left with the awkwardly titled Detective Comics Comics. Though, despite the discrepancy behind the publisher’s name, it has remained a powerhouse in the…
This is it. What is being touted as the final trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has been made available by Warner Bros. Pictures. Increasingly darker than its predecessors, the story culminates with the final battle between good and evil, between Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter. I’ll say it again (said…
