“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will center on Steve Rogers/Captain America’s relationship with sidekick Bucky, who fell to his apparent death in “Captain America: The First Avenger”. He returns as the brainwashed assassin Winter Soldier. This sequel will be a completely different genre in that it will be a political-thriller themed film, just as the first film was a 1940s World War II themed film. Sam Wilson/Falcon is introduced as a central character that is the first African American superhero. Steve Rogers finds himself with a new love interest in the beautiful and highly…

I love films as much as anybody, but I often get annoyed by how overly unrealistic many things are portrayed. Computers are the worst offenders often. It’s one thing to portray unrealistic things in Sci-Fi, but it’s another to portray them wrong in more real to life scenarios. I especially love all the bleeps and bloops computers made as on screen actors interact with touch screens (that aren’t really touch screens) and the little digital scrolling noises browsers make as they scroll (if my computer really made that noise I would turn it off so fast…).

I realize this is the movies and we…

We’ve all been there — a Sunday afternoon marathoning Lost or some other show that’s been aired for years, yet we never got around to watching it.

Now think about when a new show premieres. Most of us whip out our phones and share the excitement along with thousands of other viewers watching on social media. Live events tend to generate a mass amount of buzz because we’re all watching together at the same time.

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House of Cards had the highest percentage of overall buzz occur during the first week following the premiere. That buzz also decreased at a faster rate than any of the…

Best use of Vine ever. I have not used the Vine video service, nor particulalry cared, but this is awesome and may have singlehandedly made me more interested in the serivce.

James Mangold has put it to great use, with what is apparently clips from the full teaser trailer. Some on Twitter have taken to calling this the Tweaser.

Check it out.

The tweaser. vine.co/v/bDExaiMjJ1F

— James Mangold (@mang0ld) March 25, 2013

I like Cars and as such, I thought I would post these new short films from the franchise. They aren’t really anything special. But I like Cars. Yes even Cars 2 is better than people give it credit for. No it’s not nearly as good as Cars was, or as good as most everything else Pixar produces (most, not all), but it’s still pretty good. Anyway, these are not spectacular or anything, but here they are.

In an online spot targeted for Regal Cinemas movie fans, Dwayne Johnson invites us to take a look at a special sneak peak. It sounds all special and everything, but this is basically just a trailer with a lot of already seen visuals cut together in a different way, and a little bit that we haven’t seen yet.

This should be a fun and entertaining film if nothing else. I don’t mind an action film like this for the most part.

Mention the name JJ Abrams and there’s one question that immediately barges all others aside: what’s the plan for Episode VII? While he was able to approach Star Trek with a detached objectivity, how will he, as a huge Star Wars fan approach Star Wars’ bold new era? Empire put that question to the man himself when we recently sat down with him at his Bad Robot offices in LA.

“I don’t know because we’re just getting started. So it’s a great question that I hope I’ll have a good answer to when I know what the answer is. There are infinitely more questions than answers right now, but to me,…

Gerard Butler is all-American presidential security guard Mike Banning. In this epic terrorist attack action flick, he uses all his dedication, manhood,¹ and skill to save the president of the United States and America itself. Dude…

The trailers for Olympus Has Fallen say it all: this is a crazy-dangerous movie with loads of ambition to deliver the greatest action film of 2013 to date.

Storyline

On a ride from Camp David on a bitter winter’s night, tragedy strikes the U.S. president’s limo convoy on an icy bridge. Presidential security guard, Mike Banning (played by Gerard Butler),…

The Croods may have taken home more money, but the ratio of gross to budget was much higher for Olympus has Fallen. Still, they are hard to compare since they are in such different categories.

The Croods

The Croods brought home $44.7 Million this past weekend. I don’t know if that’s really a surprise given what’s at the box office right now. I haven’t quite been captured by the marketing of this film but I must admit that it does look funny at least. I don’t know if I’ll have time to see it in theaters but I’m not completely opposed to the idea. However, at a budget of $135 Million, it…