Last year, Peter Jackson unveiled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in HFR at Cinemacon. The response was not good. So a few months later at Comic-Con, Peter Jackson opted to not show any HFR or 3D at the presentation. So the question this year is, would Peter Jackson opt to show anything from The Desolation of Smaug? The answer appears to be no, for various stated reasons but one can only imagine that he wants to avoid the hullabaloo that he ran into yesteryear (I still think HFR is not the right way to improve quality).

But, he has unveiled a new video blog, with the first instlalment…

If you enjoy getting a peek behind the scenes of film sets, and if you are looking forward to Pacific Rim, then these two behinds the scenes videos are probably for you.

One thing is for sure, the massive size and scope of this film is apparent. As far as I’m concerned the jury is still out on whether that’s a good thing. As far as I can tell there’s not real plot details revealed here, but there’s lots of looks at cool stuff.

One of the more fascinating elements of Man of Steel was the technology used by the Kryptonians. It is, not surprisingly, unlike anything we use here on earth. Of any problems I may have had with the film, I actually like the look of the Kryptonian tech and the computers quite a bit, it was very imaginative and other-worldly, which is pretty much what you want. And it made at least a certain amount of sense.

It’s too bad there wasn’t a good movie to go along with such a great concept.

If you’re looking forward to The Wolverine, I’ve got a featurette here for you.

Much has been explored about Logan’s immortality, but now it seems they want to experiment a bit with something that’s more relatable to us as an audience: mortality. And of course, who knows to what extent these trailers and now this featurette is misleading us regarding Logan’s apparent inability to heal at some point in the film, but I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. I think one of the great struggles for a character like Logan is that there is never any real danger to him. He’s going to…

Following my review of World War Z, a discussion broke out in the comments section regarding the merits (and demerits) of the film’s approach to the zombiepocalypse. One of the most interesting things this discussion yielded was the assertion that WWZ is “barely passable” as a zombie film. Why? Mainly because there is no such thing as a fast-moving zombie. The movie shows us infected humans - crushing armies, leveling cities, chasing Brad Pitt hither and thither – but these feral chompers cannot be designated “zombies”. Real zombies don’t move like that.

To tell the truth, I’d never heard…

I’m telling you, I need to scrape some money together and start buying these Blu-rays. Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of my favorite TV shows ever, and the remastered HD episodes I have seen thus far are incredible.

Season 5 is also a really good season of the show. Season 3 really set the show on the right course after the lackluster seasons 1 and 2, and had some of the show’s best episodes. And it’s not that season 4 was bad, but season 5 really brought us another round of really great episodes just like season 3 did. My favorites from season 5 are:

• Redemption, Pt 2…

While Star Trek films have had 8 different directors (Wise, Meyer, Nimoy, Shatner, Carson, Frakes, Baird, and Abrams), the composer club is slightly more exclusive with six (Goldsmith, Horner, Rosenman, Eidelman, McCarthy, and Giacchino). It is arguable that amongst all the behind the scenes artists, the composer has the most power to influence the emotional energy of a film, perhaps even more than the director or cinematographer. The music influences what the audience feels, and when it is done right, it enhances the actor’s performances, the director’s vision, and the cinematographer’s…

In the discussion we talked about working around the constructs of the Frank Miller/Chris Claremont Wolverine story, the original movies, his trepidations about the project, how the superhero audience is changing, how Christopher Nolan’s approached influenced him, if he had to hand off to Days of Future Past, developing the bullet train sequence, marketing in the Internet age, meeting Mark Millar, the work of Darren Aronofsky and Christopher McQuarrie and more.

If you’re looking forward to The Wolverine, this interview is packed with insight and information. It’s a great long…

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Two weeks in a row Pixar dominates the box office. Clearly, MU is a big winner here. But Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy seem to be setting fire to the White House, and bringing the heat so to speak. In fact, it seems Zombies are attacking the presidential residence as well.

Let’s dive in.

#1 - Monsters University

Budget: N/A
Totals: $46.2 Million Weekend Gross / $129.3 Million Foreign Total / $300.3 Million Worldwide Total
Week Number: 2

A strong second weekend for Monsters University, particularly with foreign totals. I’d say everyone liked it. And I mean, it’s a solid…