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…

I remain optimistic for this upcoming film, but I can tell you right now that we’re going to be in for some violence and blood, and probably lots of other disturbing things. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) does not look like a woman to be messed with.

This film comes to us from Director Luc Benson who also directed The Fifth Element a fairly decent Sci-Fi film starring Bruce Willis. In fact, many people consider that to be Benson’s last decent film. But given that this film looks similar in some respects to that film, I’m quite looking forward to seeing what the he has in store for us in this…

Those of us who have read the books will know exactly what is going on here, but that doesn’t make it any less fun.

This is the second teaser transmission from Panem, but this time, they aren’t able to maintain control over the broadcast. Someone is hacking the Capitol’s feed from District 13 with a message for the masses: THE MOCKINGJAY LIVES! (duh)

Peeta is also here in this video as before, but now we also have a new face: Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) who doesn’t looks especially pleased to be a part of President Snow’s address to the nation.

Mockingjay, Part 1 will be coming to theaters…

Mila Kunis’ new film, Jupiter Ascending, won’t hit theaters until next year, after it was recently pushed back from its original July 18 release date. But by the time she’s gracing the big screen with co-star Channing Tatum, Kunis may be taking a break from acting.

The actress, who’s currently expecting a baby with her That ‘70s Show co-star fiance Ashton Kutcher, tells W Magazine that she’ll be a “full-time mom” after her baby’s born — for a year at least.

I normally don’t comment on or post stuff like this when it comes to stars day to day lives because I find it both a little boring,…

Disney is developing a live action “Dumbo,” based on the animated classic of 1941.

“Transformers: Age of Extinction” scribe Ehren Kruger is writing the script that will build a family tale around the circus elephant who is ridiculed for his enormous ears and learns to fly through the help of his only true friend, a mouse.

The toon was Disney’s fourth animated film after “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia.” It’s also one of Disney’s shortest animated film at 64 minutes.

Wow. “Dumbo” seems to be the correct title for this live action film. What is the deal with…

Join TJ, Joe, and Clark to discuss what turns out to be a pretty big disappointment for this summer movie season: ‘Earth to Echo’. While the film has a couple of redeeming qualities, its sins were just to great for the film to be much good for anything. This, of course, merits a good deal of discussion. Also in the news, more ‘Star Wars VII’ and Harrison Ford injury talk, ‘Trans4mers’ holding the number 1 spot at the box office, a video essay on what, exactly, constitutes “Bayhem”, a gritty Henry Cavill ‘Batman v Superman’ poster, the upcoming Blu-ray release of the old Adam West ‘Batman’ series, and ‘Enchanted 2’ is on its way to production.

Buried at the bottom of a casting announcement on StarWars.com - announcing two unknowns hired for unkown roles - comes the latest update in the Harrison Ford Leg Saga:

In August, the team will take a brief two-week hiatus while adjustments to the current production schedule are made as actor Harrison Ford recovers from a leg injury. Harrison is doing well and is looking forward to returning to the set soon. Shooting remains on track to wrap in the fall with the film scheduled for release on December 18, 2015.

How weird is it that they just say ‘leg injury?’ It’s all part of the spin - by…

X-Men: Days of Future Past was a fantastic film and if any film deserves a director’s cut, it’s probably this one. We’ve heard a lot about how much material had to be cut because there just wasn’t time for it. Particularly, there was a sub-plot where Rogue (Anna Paquin) stepped in to help Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) when she got injured.

The official line for cutting that portion from the film is that it reduced the tension and urgency of the time crunch from Kitty’s injury. That does make sense, and normally I’m strictly a theatrical cut kind of guy with very few exceptions, but I’d like to…

I may not actually be the best person to write this review. I have known for a long time that I liked films and wanted to watch all of them and evaluate them. But before I was running MovieByte, it was more difficult to justify the expense. As a consequence, I have seen only one of the previous films that treads the ground that this film waltzes across a little haphazardly. That one film is E.T., which I remember hating from my childhood. Yes, yes, I know, you may all gasp in shock and horror at the atrocity I have just committed. And to be fair, I haven’t actually seen E.T. since well before…