Talking with Crave Online (via Shock Til You Drop), Day touched on his early meetings with Del Toro about the project, and the director’s overall plans for his nerdy scientist character, Newt. “[He] liked the idea of Newt becoming a bit of a villain in the second film,” Day said. “But, I think over the course of making the film, and the way the character resonated with the audience, I don’t think he would want to turn him into a villain now.” In the original, Day collaborated with co-worker Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman) to discover the prime weakness of the Kaiju, and help bring them… Read The Rest

You know, I’m trying not to turn into the grumpy old man who always hates all the new everythings, but I just don’t get this whole Muppets thing. I mean I watched The Muppets when I was a kid (and more importantly, I watched Muppet Babies — yeah, yeah, I know… but there is this gem! [pro-tip: watch all three parts), but I don’t see the appeal of the feature film thing. I guess technically there have been lots of feature films, I’m just more familiar with the TV incarnations, but whatever, don’t confuse me with facts!

In any event, we’re about to get a new Muppet movie and I’ve got a trailer…

Join us to talk about 2 Guns tonight as we broadcast the podcast live!

Of course that’s not the only thing we’ll talk about. We’ll kick off the show with a look at the latest trailers, what we’re expecting from these upcoming films, our analysis and more! This new segment of the show may be the most fun for me!

And of course we’ll have some opinions on some of the news and stories that have been floating around lately (I’m ready and waiting to do a good lampooning of the idea of another Bourne without Bourne film!).

Don’t miss out. We’ll broadcast the show live at 7:30 PM Central Time. As…

Well it wasn’t terrible but…

What a horrible way to start a review, right? I mean, I want to say something nice about this film because I didn’t hate it. It was entertaining and enjoyable on a few levels, but on other levels this film also failed to deliver. That makes this film kind of mediocre.

Yet on the other hand, this film has a couple of problems, and one very significant problem, hence: it wasn’t terrible, but…

Twists and Turns

This film definitely has a few more curve balls in store than the average film plot these days, and that’s not actually a negative thing. Often, it seems…

I didn’t get to show you guys the preview trailer for the full trailer that came out yesterday because I was away from my computer when it happened. But the internet has been somewhat abuzz since that came out yesterday. And so today, as the studio promised, we have the full trailer number 2 for Ender’s Game.

This is yet another apocalyptic themed film this summer. I’ve pointed out before the apocalyptic themes we’re seeing lately, and though the book was written many years ago, the film is just now being made. I’m not sure exactly what is up with all the apocalypse stuff, left-over Mayan…

Ever since the film’s embarrassing, sub-$30 million opening, the people behindThe Lone Ranger have been complaining about critics. And now, as the film opens internationally, they seem to be doubling their efforts. That’s where this interview clip with Yahoo U.K. comes in. For three minutes, it features Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and director Gore Verbinski just complaining about the American press. 

Deppp posits that “the reviews were written seven to eight months before” the film’s release. Bruckheimer adds, “they were reviewing the budget, not reviewing the…