To find out whether we survive the monster apocalypse coming sometime in the near future, you’ll need to see Guillermo del Toro’s newest film, Pacific Rim. I’m not going to spoil it too much for you, but let’s just say that there are monsters and robots and lots of big stupid summer action.

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Pacific Rim — PG-13

I was a little worried about this film at first. It looked for all the world during the first phase of the promotional campaign like a big stupid action movie — all fluff and no substance. The tide of the campaign slowly began to turn more toward the human…

Who doesn’t know that Mary Poppins is a magical singing nanny who uses a bunch of made up words and cheers up children and unites them to their father? Of course we all know because of the beloved 1964 film titled just that, Mary Poppins. I must have watched the film 100 times growing up, though I haven’t seen it in years (and I can still hear Dick Van Dyke singing Chim Chim-in-ey whenever I hear the name Mary Poppins).

Well, apparently there’s a backstory on how this film came to the screen, and if the trailer and story is to be believed, P.L. Travers took some convincing to let Walt…

Warner Bros’ claims against the estate of The Lord Of The Rings author J.R.R Tolkien will live to fight another day. A federal judge today rejected the estate trustees and Fourth Age Ltd’s motion to dismiss WB and the Saul Zaentz Company’s counterclaims in the multimillion-dollar court battle. “Fourth Age’s Motions to Dismiss Amended Counterclaims and Special Motions to Strike Amended Counterclaims are DENIED,” wrote U.S. District Court judge Audrey Collins in a dense 6-page order (read it here). In March, WB and Zaentz fired back at the estate’s November 2012 $80 million copyright and…

The jury is still on out whether this film will be any good, and we’ll find out on July 26th. But I’m a bit more interested now than the very first clip I posted made me. It’s certainly an interesting bit of development that someone whom Logan saved many years back, and before he lost his memories, is not repaying a favor. And of course, he doesn’t really remember the guy I would guess.

In this first clip, we get to see a lot more of the scene being teased in the trailers of Logan saving a guy from the fiery explosion of an atomic bomb (wouldn’t radiation still be a problem? Wouldn’t the…

“I am very pleased that by giving me the time I need to honor all my theatre commitments, the producers have made it possible for me to direct ‘Bond 24,’” said Mendes in a statement today. “I very much look forward to taking up the reins again, and to working with Daniel Craig, Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time.”

With today’s announcement we learned that Bond 24 will be released October 23, 2015 in the United Kingdom and November 6th, 2015 in the United States.

This is good news as far as I’m concerned. Of the three Daniel Craig Bond films, Skyfall was certainly…

TIME Magazine has unveiled the first look at Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in the upcoming movie Saving Mr. Banks.

The photo depicts Hanks as the legendary entertainment icon walking alongside P.L. Travers portrayed by Emma Thompson. They are walking down Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A in 1961. The cast filmed on location at the real theme park in Anaheim, California this past November.

P.L. is the author behind the Mary Poppins books, and in Saving Mr. Banks, we watch her life unfold and experience a rocky relationship with Walt because she doesn’t want her work to be changed by a movie…

Blockbuster sequel Despicable Me 2 earned $143 million over the extended Fourth of July weekend — and although its debut marked a high point at the summer box office, it also marked a low point for 3-D ticket sales.

According to Universal, only 27 percent of Despicable Me 2‘s opening-weekend gross came from 3-D tickets, the lowest 3-D share in modern box office history. Notably, the record low comes just two weeks after Monsters University notched a 31 percent 3-D share on its opening weekend, which at the time was the worst 3-D performance ever. Poor 3-D ticket sales aren’t just plaguing…

TJ welcomes Chad back for another week, and they also welcome guest Michael Fissel of Reel World Theology. They talk about the latest film trailers, their thoughts on the upcoming films, and the last trailer for ‘Agents of SHIELD’ leads to a discussion about Joss Whedon. Then they talk about some film news and interesting items, such as David Chen’s comparison of ‘Superman’ and ‘Man of Steel’ music, Russell Crowe would be interested in a ‘Man of Steel’ prequel, Vin Diesel and ‘Riddick’, a live action ‘Jungle Book’, Hayden Christensen in Episode VII and more! And our main topics this week are ‘Despicable Me 2’ and ‘The Lone Ranger’. Tune in for a fun and lively discussion!

Amid continuing reverberations from the mega-failure of The Lone Ranger, it appears clear that the movie has damaged producer Jerry Bruckheimer‘s long and often highly successful relationship with Disney and will lead at minimum to a renegotiation of his rich deal for a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean, if not his eventual exit from the studio.

Oh, come on guys! All filmmakers and producers make bad films once in a while (which I don’t even think The Lone Ranger is).

Yet, at the same time I’m kind of torn, because we don’t need a Pirates 5 anyway. Disney should just cancel that project.…