Rebel Wilson Joins ‘Night At the Musem 3’

Rebel Wilson Joins ‘Night At the Musem 3’
Mike Fleming Jr. - Deadline

Rebel Wilson has been set to join Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan and Ricky Gervais in Night At The Museum 3, which Shawn Levy is directing from the script written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant and David Guion and Michael Handelman for Fox. Wilson will play the night guard at the British museum where the action takes place this time around.

Remember how I put this movie on my list of movies to look forward to this year and everything? Well, YIKES! I take it all back. Ugh.

Entire ‘Veronica Mars’ Series Now Streaming on Amazon Prime

Entire ‘Veronica Mars’ Series Now Streaming on Amazon Prime

With the crowd funded Veronica Mars film coming up in about 9 weeks, I thought, what better time than now to start watching the series and getting caught up? So I looked on Netflix. But Veronica Mars was not available. So I looked on Hulu, but Veronica Mars was also not available there either. My options seemed to be that either I could buy the episodes on iTunes at $2.99 each, or I could buy them on Amazon for $2.99 each — after which I would be completely broke. There are 64 episodes, 64 times $2.99 is $191.36. Good golly that’s not going to happen.

I do want to stop and reflect for a…

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Tens and Twenties

Tens and Twenties

Join TJ and Chad for a brief bit of talk about the whole “Armond White heckling Steve McQueen situation” and be sure to follow the links to the recommended listening of Dave Chen’s interview with White. Basically TJ and Chad think the guy is nuts. Then there’s movies that are turning 30 this year and it makes TJ feel old to realize that he was alive when these classics were made. And for this podcast, TJ and Chad talk over their list of films that they liked and loved from 2013, and then move on to anticipate what’s coming up in 2014. 2013 was a great year for film and maybe 2014 can be too.

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Dave Chen Interviews Armond White about Steve McQueen Heckling

Dave Chen Interviews Armond White about Steve McQueen Heckling
David Chen - /Film

12 Years a Slave was my favorite film of the year, so I was pretty disappointed when I read in outlets such as The Guardian and Variety  that former /Filmcast guest Armond White had heckled Steve McQueen during the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Sure, White was no fan of 12 Years a Slave, as demonstrated in our /Filmcast review of the film with him. But shouting down a man during an evening meant to praise him? It struck me as wildly inappropriate. The Chair of the NYFCC, Joshua Rothkopf, agreed and issued a public apology. 

You can listen to some low-quality audio of the incident…

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‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Clip “Couples Therapy”

‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Clip “Couples Therapy”

Hey, so speaking of looking foward to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, we’ve got a new clip from the upcoming film. It’s not much really, but you know you take what you can get sometimes.

In this clip it looks like Cathy (Keira Knightley) is not too happy with Jack (Chris Pine) for keeping his work secret. Then Jack’s Boss (Kevin Costner) basically tells them to suck it up because lives are at stake, including their own.

This Kenneth Branagh directed reboot of the Jack Ryan films hits the theaters in just eight days on January 17.

Looking Forward - 2014

Looking Forward - 2014

Anticipation is half the fun isn’t it? Well, in the case of some films, it’s all the fun unfortunately. But then sometimes films really exceed expectations and then it’s more than half. So I reckon that it sort of balances out to, “half the fun.”

In that spirit, let me tell you about a few films that I’m looking forward to in 2014. There will be more movies to come that we don’t know about yet for sure. Some on my list will not be good, and those not on my list that we don’t know about yet will likely more than make up for it. That’s the way of things. But at this very moment, these are the…

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Honest Action - Home Alone

Honest Action - Home Alone

Screen Junkies just keep cranking ‘em out. You know maybe some of you have just recenlty seen Home Alone, since it’s kind of a Christmas movie. Maybe it’s a Christmas tradition? Well I didn’t see it, but this kind of makes me want to go back and watch it again. Because no matter how stupid and implausible, it’s just fun. And so is this video.

Have you ever wondered how many lives your favorite action hero would really need to survive a movie? We asked an actual doctor to answer that question for us in Screen Junkies’ new series “Honest Action.” Next up, The Wet Bandits in Home Alone.

Stan Lee to Appear on ‘Agents of SHIELD’

Stan Lee to Appear on ‘Agents of SHIELD’
Kimberly Nordyke - The Hollywood Reporter

After weeks of speculation, Stan Lee has confirmed that he will appear in an upcoming episode of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD.

While details on just whom he will play are unclear, Lee—who also serves as an executive producer on the freshman series—tells The Hollywood Reporter that it’s a “big role.” The episode—see the first-look photo above—will most likely air Feb. 4, though that is subject to change.

I just love that old guy!

ILM’s Visual Effects for ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’

ILM’s Visual Effects for ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’

Star Trek Into Darkness was a lot better than J.J.‘s first film in this new, rebooted universe in my opinion, but man holy cow! there’s a lot of CGI in it.

ILM has released to videos to showcase the work they did on the film. The first is really a sort of visual effects reel of the overall film. The second features commentary from Roger Guyett, Visual Effects Supervisor, and Paul Kavanahg, Animation Supervisor. They talk about all some of the things that went into making the red planet look as it did.

“Star Trek Into Darkness” contains over 1600 visual effects shots, created by Industrial…

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