The potential is here for a good film. The X-Men Universe sort of floundered a little with Bret Ratner’s version of X-Men: The Last Stand (which I pretty much reject as cannon by the way, I guess I’m in denial). The potential is also here for an awful film, and only time will tell us the story.
In the mean time, we can get the excitement fired up for this film by way of this CinemaCon trailer. The Wolverine will release on July 26, 2013 and is helmed by director James Mangold.
Everyone sees things from a different perspective as proved by this mother who recently watched The Matrix with her son, and then retold him the plot.
I think she may have got a few of the details wrong… Moshimo? Super Powers? Beat out the Matrix?
Also apparently Neo got in water and lost his hair. Oh, and also, he went through tunnels. See below:
Apparently, she watched a very different film than the film that I love so much…
Read The RestMy mom hadn’t seen (or heard of) the Wachowski’s classic sci-fi film The Matrix. We watched the entire movie together and right after she told me what it…
The Paramount marketing machine is churning something new out almost every day at this point. One almost gets the impression that they want this film to be big or something.
In this fourth clip it looks like the Enterprise is headed down and the artificial gravity is going crazy, stuff is flying around, and Kirk and Scotty are in a hurry to get to, what is apparently, engineering.
And of course, the “red shirts” are biting the dust around them. Oh, also, the bridge chairs have seat belts now?
It makes sense actually, we’ve just never seen such a think before (except for in a…
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Speaking at a press conference in Germany for “Star Trek Into Darkness,” J.J. Abrams was inevitably asked a few questions about the ‘Star Wars’ movie he’ll be directing, and while he generally gently deflected the inquiries, he did let slip a little bit of info about who will score the movie. “For ‘Star Wars,’ it’s every early days to know, but I believe that going forward, John Williams will be [scoring] that film,” he said, jokingly adding: “Because, apparently, he was there long before I was.”
I’m shocked — SHOCKED.
Well, no not really. Williams is the only man for the job as long…
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Read The RestIt’s the end of an era at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs, Ohio. On Tuesday, the theater will run its old, 35 mm film projector for the last time. Then, starting Wednesday, it will close for several months to install an expensive new digital projection system.
The Little Art’s conversion comes in response to a sweeping mandate from big Hollywood studios that all of the country’s theaters — big and small — convert to digital. The studios say they’re going to stop offering their movies on film, so theaters that don’t convert — or can’t afford to — won’t be able to screen new…
Complicating matters further, Netflix is currently testing a variety of new interfaces, rolling out variations on its iconic queue to small groups of users. Instead of a customizable queue, some—like me—now see a “list” which can only be sorted according to a handful of options. See the screenshot below, and don’t judge me.
What on earth?
Honestly, if I can’t organize the items in my queue, I’d probably leave Netflix. This is just stupid.
“Words like ‘realism’ and ‘dark’ and ‘gritty’ get bandied about Hollywood as if the only merit a story can have is in its verisimilitude, but that’s a lie,” the former Action Comics and Adventures of Superman writer said.
“Emotional honesty transcends reality - it’s what allows disbelief to be suspended, and yet what makes a story stay true. When Superman: The Movie was released, Richard Donner promised us we’d believe a man could fly. We did, but it wasn’t the wire-work alone.
He makes good points. I’m taking a wait and see approach though.
Read The RestI am happy to announce that Instacast for Mac is available for download as a free beta version. We’ve been working very hard for the last 4 months to bring everything that you love from Instacast on iOS to the Mac. While it resembles a lot of similarities to the iPhone and iPad app, Instacast for Mac is not merely a port of the iOS app, it is a true OS X app in every possible way.
Everything’s there: subscriptions, show notes, playback and playlists, but also a lot of stuff that you can only get on the Mac: True Background Processing, Flattr, Search and an Up Next Playlist to only…
I just want to remind you that we will not have the live broadcast of The MovieByte Podcast tonight as we normally do. We will instead be broadcast tomorrow (Thursday, May 2), live at 3:30 PM Central Time, and we will be joined by special guest Dan Benjamin to talk up Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. To find out more about that, see my announcement article from last Friday.
I’m really excited about this episode of the podcast and I can’t wait to talk to Dan about this film. Actually, I just can’t wait to talk about this film anyway so be sure to tune in tomorrow!
I do have a couple more Star Trek clips that I didn’t just want to lump all together in the one article I posted earlier. I wanted to spread it out a little bit so here are the other two.
In the first clip, Kirk and Spock meet Carol… Wallace? Maybe this has something to do with her British accent as well? Maybe in this timeline with the way things have unfolded, Admiral Marcus and Carol’s mother divorced and she goes by her mother’s last name? And they moved to the U.K.
Who knows, we’ll find out.
And in the following clip, Simon Pegg talks about playing Scotty. They have definitely…
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