I am very sorry about this folks, but it looks like there will be no podcast tonight. Joe let me know yesterday that he was getting sick and was headed home early. Today I have not been able to get in touch with him until just now and he confirmed to me that he is too sick to do the show tonight. I am hopeful of doing it tomorrow night, but I have no idea whether he will be well enough or not by then. I really want to talk about Back to the Future!

Keep an eye out for details of the reschedule! We’ll keep you informed!

Let it be said here and now that this film brought me to tears on more than one occasion — not because I cared about the stars of this film (such as Adolf Hitler), but because of the shear senselessness and moral depravity that could move men to do what the Nazis did. A particular scene involving the murder of children was perhaps the most difficult for me.

It is not a film I will ever see again for I have no desire to see it again. Yet it must be highly rated, praised even, for that which it accomplishes in its viewing. It is a film that everyone should see I think. For this film…

Oh, you thought you were a Star Wars nerd did you? Not so fast:

Think you’re a Star Wars fan? You’ve got nothing on Barry. Barry turned one of his rooms,the entire room, into a 140 square-foot recreation of the Battle of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back. From AT-ATs and Snowtroopers, to Snow Speeders and explosions; it’s all there in painstaking detail.

Well okay then. I don’t know why you would want to do this, but okay then.

Short answer: No. “A Good Day to Die Hard” was so dispiriting that it might be better for us to all simply move on with our lives. “A Good Day to Die Hard” was like that crazy uncle you’ve always loved: He gave you $50 for your birthday every year when you were growing up, and then yesterday he appeared out of the blue with a teenaged bride, talking only in Pig Latin. In other words, the unexpected and tonally unfamiliar fifth iteration of the iconic action franchise was completely inexplicable given the affection everyone once had for the series as a whole. Of course, “A Good Day to Die…

But one person who won’t be watching the Spidey reboots is Raimi himself, but not for the reasons you might think.

 

There are no grudges or hard feelings about the studio or Webb taking another spin on the franchise, rather it’s just that Raimi isn’t quite ready to watch it. “I’m a big Marc Webb fan and a giant fan of Emma Stone. And of Andrew Garfield...And I love the producers of that movie because they are dear friends, and the writer. But, I haven’t had the guts to go see the movie yet. Because I don’t want to go to my girlfriend’s wedding,”

Much more gracious and professional…

So this has nothing to do with movies, TV shows, films or anything else this site is about, but in case you want to know what I was up to yesterday after I got done finding news and stories for MovieByte:

It is with great joy that I introduce to you our fourth little one, our second daughter, Kaylee Marie, child of the covenant.

• ‎20” long
• 7 lbs, 1 oz
• Dark hair
• Brown eyes
• Cute as a button

So that was my day yesterday, how was yours? Do anything interesting or exciting?

Alright, now I’ll try to find some interesting and fun stuff for you guys this…

I was browsing Reddit the other day when I happened upon a fascinating AskReddit thread, which posed the question: “How do Marty McFly’s parents not realize that they gave birth to their friend from the 50′s who mysteriously disappeared?” It’s a question that’s always vexed me as well. I mean, Calvin Klein made such a dramatic impact on the McFly’s lives, you’d think they’d have recognized their second son, Marty, was growing up to be this dude, no?

The one I always went with was the first one posited in this article:

A person’s looks can be distorted by memories, so even though he’s…

In addition to being very hopeful (and “very Joss,” as ABC boss Paul Lee has said), Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.— not surprisingly — will very strongly evoke its source material. “We’re trying very hard to be true to [Marvel’s] ethos and also to the structure of their universe,” Whedon shared. “So it is definitely a Marvel show.”

That said, Whedon says to expect “not a ton” of familiar faces from the Marvel-verse, though “there’s a little bit of talk of that” for any possible future the project has in primetime. “Right now, I want to involve people in the characters that we’ve created for the…

According to a new report, composer John Williams has voiced his interest in working on the next trilogy. Williams’ work for the original remains one of the best loved movie scores of all time, so this seems like great news all around. Unless, that is, you’re Michael Giacchino, who’d probably be the favorite to score if this were any other Abrams project but Star Wars.

As much as I am often not Williams’ biggest fan, I have to say that as long as he’s alive it would seem almost wrong for him not to do Star Wars. Plus, as much as I enjoy Giacchino as a person — he seems very nice in his…