Four months ago, Star Trek Into Darkness hit theaters. By any objective concrete metric, it was a perfectly respectable Hollywood product. The critics generally liked it. It cost around $200 million and made $465 million worldwide, a financial showing that is neither impressive nor unimpressive. (It wasn’t Man of Steel, but it also wasn’t The Lone Ranger.) It had some funny jokes and it had things exploding in interesting ways. The title was dumb and it had third-act problems and nobody can really explain why they kept the Khan reveal a secret, but if you asked the average person in mid-June…

One of the most controversial points of the already uneven “Man Of Steel” this past summer, was the decision (spoiler alert) to have Superman kill General Zod. Christopher Nolan wasn’t initially a fan of taking it in that direction (early drafts had Zod sent to the Phantom Zone instead), while comics writer Mark Waid (of “Superman: Birthright” fame) was nothing short of enraged by what he saw in theaters. But speaking at the BATFA and BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture last night, writer David S. Goyer defended his choice to put blood on the hands of Clark Kent.

“This is one area, and I’ve written…

Are you guys excited? I am! I’ll be anxiously waiting to not see this tonight because I don’t have cable. Maybe I’ll go hang out with someone who does…

Well whatever, it’s just a TV show… ARGH, who am I kidding? I’m going to die until it comes to Hulu. And as always, this trailer looks great. Yeah, I know at this point the show is pretty much over-hyped, but I’m still expecting it to be great because, duh! Joss Whedon!

Clark did not have a great time in The Avengers, I don’t know if you noticed but things went kind of south for him.

Good to hear that Colson really was dead though. A lot of fans and people who think they know have told me that they thought the intension was always to bring him back and they new he wasn’t really dead and blah, blah blah. Well Joss himseslf says that was not the intention until they started talking about the Agents of SHIELD TV show.

Anyway, this if fun. Enjoy.

…but were too afraid to ask.

That’s right, in this video from IGN, we get the speed version of Ultron’s history, which is helpful for people like me who are fans of the movies but not of the comic books.

Obviously, the Ultron we’re going to see in the upcoming Avengers film will not be the Ultron of the comic books, but know a little bit about the history of the character seems like a good thing. Plus, I live the editing and sassy cuts in this video. Check it out:

For the first time, the filmmakers behind the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy will raise production and marketing money through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

 

The campaign is scheduled to kick off Monday and is designed to raise $250,000 of the film’s $10 million budget.

Filmmakers also said Monday that the movie has been officially titled, Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?

Yeah… see, I’m not so interested in this film because I like films that are well made. While the second installment was, in my opinion, somewhat better than the first, it still was not great filmmaking. Those…

If, like me, you don’t have cable and get all your shows through Hulu, you’ll be forced to wait a day and avoid as many spoilers for the premiere of Agents of SHIELD as possible (assuming it works the way most other shows work on Hulu).

This may be the only time I regret not having a typical cable subscription.

But in the mean time, we’ll tide ourselves over with this fun video.

As Lucasfilm and the filmmakers behind Episode VII launch their casting efforts for what looks very much like a new actor to play Chewbacca, an amazing amount of support has rushed forth for Peter Mayhew, the actor who originated the role in George Lucas‘ 1977 original.

As we told you earlier in the month, Mayhew isn’t in the best of health right now. Complications arising from his gigantism lead to him being unable to stand up straight or walk unassisted.

But he’s undergone surgery on his knees and legs, and when the whole healing process has been completed, the doctors say that he should…

It’s not surprising to me that Prisoners would take the top spot at the box office this past weekend since it is easily the best new film at the box office. That’s not to say there haven’t been better films at the box office this year, but when you look around at the puny offerings right about now, Prisoners positively glows with goodness.

#1 - Prisoners

Budget: $46 Million
Totals: $20.8 Million, Weekend and Total
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Prisoners is, all things considered, a fairly satisfying drama. That is not to say that the film is without flaws or flawed views, just that it does well in slowly —…