Joe Courtney, Democratic member of the House from Connecticut, was alarmed to find a historical inaccuracy that depicted his home state in a negative light while watching Oscar-nominated film Lincoln.

In the movie, two congressmen from Connecticut voted against the 13th amendment, which would abolish slavery. Courtney was surprised by the vote, and decided to check the facts.

He started with a simple Internet search, according to the AP, which lead to a request for the Congressional Research Service to look into the issue. In fact, all four Connecticut congressmen voted for the…

Yesterday, The Walt Disney Co. unveiled plans to make a number of spin-off movies set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — in addition to the post-Return of the Jedi trilogy that had already been announced.

Entertainment Weekly has learned details on two of the spin-off projects: A young Han Solo saga, focusing on the wisecracking smuggler’s origin story, and a bounty hunter adventure with Boba Fett at the center of a rogue’s gallery of galactic scum.

I don’t know what to say except… uhh… well, maybe I just don’t know what to say. This could be really bad. There’s some small…

Don’t forget that tonight we’ll be chatting up the original Star Wars, among other things, to kick off our Favorite Fun Futon Films for February. You won’t want to miss out on that! You can tune in live at 6:30 PM Central Time, join the live chat, interact with us as we do the show, and throw popcorn at your computer screen as I talk about the things I may not have liked about the old classic, and Joe defends it from my perceived obtuseness. Rest assured it will be a lot of fun. I mean seriously, who doesn’t like Star Wars?

Get in on the action! And don’t forget to share with your…

“What’s wrong with me? I just want to connect. Why can’t I connect with people? Oh, right, it’s cause I’m dead. I shouldn’t be so hard on myself, I mean, we’re all dead. This girl’s dead. That guy’s dead. That guy in the corner is definitely dead. These guys look awful.”

I had to do a double take when I looked at the Tomato Meter at Rotten Tomatoes. As of this writing it is averaging a 77% approval rating from the critics and an 83% from the audience. That’s… weird. Maybe it’s not surprising that the audience rated it so highly, given that there is not a whole lot of good happening in the…

Earlier today, we reported that Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 began production in New York.  Now, we have the full press release that reveals the first official synopsis and the principal cast.

Full Press Release:

New York, February 5, 2013 – Columbia Pictures announced today that filming has begun on The Amazing Spider-Man™ 2 in New York. The film is the first in the history of the franchise that will be filmed entirely in New York City and New York State.

The sequel to last year’s critical and box office hit The Amazing Spider-Man, the film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma…

Buckle up and prepare to laugh your socks off.

“The Super Secret MI6 agent who everyone knows by his real name”

“...the most secluded corner fo the globe… that conveniently has CNN in english”

And my favorite:

“...and ending so goofy, they just ripped it off from Home Alone”

Hahahahahahahaha! Watch the trailer, it’s awesome!

Disney CEO Bob Iger, whose company acquired Lucasfilm in a $4.05 billion transaction last year, confirmed for investors that his company has lined up Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to work on stand-alone Star Wars movies.

As THR first reported, Kasdan and Kinberg are working on separate films that will serve as spinoffs of the main new trilogy. Iger told CNBC that the pair are “working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga, so we still plan to make Star Wars VII, VIII and IX roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015. But…

This is just… wrong. The countryish, Americana Firefly them just doesn’t really work as a backdrop for these Avengers. And yet somehow, I want this show so much! Joss, can we go ahead and just order up this show? It’d be lots of fun. What studio executives do I need to call to make this happen? Just say the word. Thanks, we’ll be looking forward to it.

Then Jack Reacher came out and while the film did pretty well critically, it underperformedfinancially. Whether that was because it was released days after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and the film begins with a savage sniper attack, because people are just over Tom Cruise, or if people just didn’t respond to the marketing and/or film is to be determined.

Either way, the question remained, “Would McQuarrie be handed the keys to one of Paramount’s biggest franchises?” That seems to be the case. McQuarrie took to Twitter and said he’s “deciding to accept” the gig. Which is…