Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Warner Bros. released some concept art of Oa from the “Green Lantern” movie and it’s looking pretty awesome. I got all ticklish when I saw the Green Lantern logo in those pillars (tombstones?) above. We’ve seen bits and pieces of the movie so far and I’ve been going back and forth on a lot of [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was the last piece in the Scott Pilgrim comic/game/movie trifecta that I experienced and, going in, it was the one I felt most ambivalent about. I understand and appreciate the appeal of Brian Lee O’Malley’s original comic but, three volumes in, and I ultimately felt it just wasn’t for me. The downloadable game has one of my favorite [...]

It was the posters that did it. With Dark Knight standing alone in the list of Christopher Nolan films I like, I effortlessly waded through months and months of anticipation and speculation over his next film prior to release. If the internet is anything to go by, the guy clearly has a huge following but [...]

These have been floating around for a couple of days via Collider and AICN and they look pretty legit. I question certain things about these movies, from how successfully they’ll integrate the mystical aspects of Thor into the more realistic superhero world found in the films to Chris Evans as Cap to just plain quality [...]

Jon Favreau’s Iron Man was a surprise to many people. In spite of a rather shoddy third act, it was a funny, exciting and extremely enjoyable film backed by some smart and inspired production choices. No more than two years later and Favreau and crew are back with a sequel. Iron Man 2 packs higher [...]

I’m a pretty big fan of Mark Millar’s writing but, for some reason, I haven’t gotten around to reading his and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass yet. I prefer my superhero stories to be epic and over the top and the idea of a “real world” superhero doesn’t really appeal to me, I suppose. But word [...]

From Ridley Scott via MTV: It’s set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It’s fundamentally about going out to find out ‘Who the hell was that Space Jockey?’ The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on [...]

To be fair, I think it’s worth mentioning before I begin that I have never read Lewis Carroll’s novel and that I have only vague memories of Disney’s animated film from 1951. Still, I was interested in seeing this newest rendition of Alice in Wonderland mostly because of Tim Burton who, in spite of over [...]

It seems at times like the Academy created the Best Animated Feature Film category just to relegate animation to its own little corner of the Oscars and collectively forget about it so it’s refreshing to see UP running for Best Picture this year. I saw UP like five times and it truly is an amazing [...]

Well over a decade in the making, Avatar is James Cameron’s first feature film since Titanic back in 1997. In my mind, Cameron’s Terminator 2 is the best action movie ever made so this movie had some pretty big shoes to fill. I tried to stay away from details of the movie for as long [...]