Are you guys excited enough yet for Guardians of the Galaxy? Well if you are not, let me help — although I don’t know why you wouldn’t be ecstatic about this film yet. It’s a Marvel film, it’s based on a comic book series, it features a talking (and sarcastic) raccoon, a walking tree, a green alien, an alien who doesn’t understand metaphors, and Chris Pratt. Every single thing we’ve seen about this film up to this point tells us that it’s going to be awesome. At this point, there is so much awesome overload that I’m worried about expectation management. But I just have this feeling that the…

I really didn’t like the film Twelve Monkeys starring Bruce Willis. So color me a little bit skeptical about this TV series. I felt like the film had no story to tell, no real moral to convey, and no interesting characterization. I know people are going to argue this with me, but when you stop and think about it, I think you will know, deep down in your heart, that I am right.

So I watched this trailer with quite a bit of skepticism. But I do think this looks far more interesting and enjoyable than the film. I doesn’t look like it’s going to tell much of the same story as the film for that…

Back in January, I posted about this interesting looking film coming up starring Samuel L. Jackson. It’s based on an anime film from 1998 and looks extremely violent and gritty. And yet, despite that, I feel like there might be something here. The very short description from IMDb reads:

When her cop father is killed, a young woman tracks the murder with the apparent help of his ex-partner.

That’s not a lot of information. From my previous posting, it appears that she’s doing so with the help of some drugs that really puts her out of it but makes her a super hero.

Also, I’m really digging…

Edge of Tomorrow was a pretty fantastic film (my review here, and Chad’s and my podcast review here), but it just didn’t seem to have a lot of steam at the box office. This has been a great source of distress and discouragement to me about the state of cinema in general. When great films come out and movie goers do not see and supporr them, we all loose.

Well, turns out, while it’s still not the biggest hit here in the U.S., overseas it has had a very different life — raking in $256 million so far. That brings the worldwide total up to $350.4 million. As much as I complain about sequelitis…

The marketing material for this film is practically pouring out at this point. They must be worried that the film won’t do well and are trying to pump as much interest in it as they can. As far as I know the film is not based on any pre-existing franchise and that may be part of the paranoia for putting this much out for it in advance. The studios believe these days that sequels, reboots, retellings and the like are far more likely to make them money. And unfortunately it’s hard to argue with the numbers that back up those assumptions.

I’m willing to give this film a good solid chance…

From drug mule to super powered scarcy chick in no time flat, Lucy is quite an intruiging looking film. Although in the last couple of clips, she looks pretty scary. Here she drive through head on traffic, causing wrecks and crazyness without a care in the world.

Godzilla was a supremely disappointing film to me and maybe that’s what makes this so good. Spot on with the Bryan Cranston character. The plot of Godzilla made the amount of sense it would have made if a bunch of monkeys with typewriters typed up the plot…

So yeah, I enjoyed this.

Man, at this point, I’m trying to protect myself from getting to amped up about this film because I don’t want to be disappointed. But I just almost can’t help it. It just looks so fantastic.

This is the longest and the best trailer for the film yet. You watch this and tell me you aren’t excited because I don’t think you can do it. And we don’t have long to wait now. The film hits theaters on August, 2014.

In many ways, I have never been satisfied with Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. It didn’t always stick to the biblical tale that I grew up with, and at many points in that film, it feels like the drama is somewhat manufactured.

Enter the director of Gladiator, Ridley Scott. Yes, he can be a bit hit or miss, but he has done a few great films over the years. And I bring up Gladiator because it’s probably the most relevant for a film set in ancient egypt of Bible times. Gladiator is one of my top all time films and possibly the best film Ridley Scott has done to date (I know these…