Watch the first kooky teaser for The Addams Family
Get ready to click your fingers! The Addams Family is back on the big screen in the first animated comedy about the kookiest family on the block.
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Charlize Theron
Review: Atomic Blonde – Sexy stunts, sounds and style
Ms. Theron does do a lot of glaring into the camera while sexily smoking a cigarette, sometimes sans clothing, kicking the butts of Cold War evil-doers.
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Review: The Fate of the Furious – Melodramatic machismo and mayhem
If you are a fan of the Fast and the Furious franchise, then good news, the eighth film of the franchise, The Fate of the Furious, has arrived, with the requisite machismo, melodrama and mayhem amped up to eleven on the male overcompensation meter. Not a fan? Then you know already it’s time to move […]
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens cast and crew rake in Saturn Awards
Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens was a big winner at the Saturn Awards, taking top spots in many categories.
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Review: ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’ – A mediocre malevolent mirror movie
The Huntsman: Winter’s War is mostly a mediocre malevolent mirror movie that is far from being the fairest of the now well-worn fractured fairy-tale genre.
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Classic Comic Cover Corner – Hex #1
After Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, DC rebooted the western hero, Jonah Hex, as a post-apocalyptic protagonist called, ‘Hex’ (which you’ll note rhymes with Max.)
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Mad Max: Fury Road – bring a seat-belt
Mad Max Rockatansky is back in the biggest way imaginable, with non-stop, edge-of-your-seat action. You are going to wish your theater had installed seat-belts.
ContinueBeyond Nerdvana: G4 morphing into GQ?
Variety has the scoop that G4 may be undergoing a rebranding early next year. As Kotaku puts it, “G4 As We Know It Is As Good As Gone.” I more or less said as much a few months back when Kevin Pereira and Adam Sessler departed from the Comcast-owned network. Expect something more like GQ […]
ContinueReview: Prometheus – Darwin meets the Devil
In the summer of 1979, I stood in a long hot line (at the original Cine-Capri theatre in Phoenix) to see what would become one of the most successful and influential science-fiction films of all time, the original Alien, by director Ridley Scott and writer Dan O’Bannon. True to its title, this film was like […]
ContinueReview: Snow White and the Huntsman – A darker shade of pale
This year of re-envisioned fairy tales on TV and film continues with the release of Snow White and the Huntsman, the darkest Snow White of them all. If J.R.R. Tolkien had written Snow White, mashed-up her character with Joan of Arc, then threw in some additional Grimms’ Fairy Tales for good measure; you would probably […]
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