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- The Last Sci-Fi Blog: Why 'Creative Control' is This Year's 'Her'
- Today in Movie Culture: Hodor vs. Groot, 'The Fifth Element' Action Figures and More
- Comics on Film: Ranking the Different Versions of Lex Luthor We've Seen So Far
- The Director of 'It Follows' Talks Inspiration, Easter Eggs, Modern Horror and More
- Watch a Supercut That Reminds Us How Important Dance Is to Movies
- 'Friday the 13th' Turns to 'Hannibal' For Inspiration
- 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Has Found its New Jubilee
- Watch: The Schmoes Review 'Get Hard'
- Movie News: Ben Mendelsohn Touted for 'Star Wars' Spinoff 'Rogue One'; Another 'Lego Movie' Spinoff Coming
| The Last Sci-Fi Blog: Why 'Creative Control' is This Year's 'Her' Posted: 26 Mar 2015 11:00 PM PDT When I sat down to watch Creative Control at this year's SXSW Film Festival, I found myself in the best possible position to appreciate its bleak vision of the near-future and its cynical view of technology. For the previous five days, I had been splitting my time between SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive, where entrepreneurs, technologists and everyone in-between attends panels, shares ideas and desperately tries to convince you to download their app. Seriously, if I had a nickel for every flyer or business card imploring me to download a mobile application with a name lacking in vowels, I would be able to buy a decent sandwich from a modest fast food restaurant. I like SXSW Interactive. Truly. I like having the chance to hear experts speak on the future of the business. I... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Today in Movie Culture: Hodor vs. Groot, 'The Fifth Element' Action Figures and More Posted: 26 Mar 2015 10:00 PM PDT Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: It's the rap battle you've been waiting for, here's Hodor from Game of Thrones vs. Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy (via World Wide Interweb): Here's a look at the surprise cameo in the new Fast and Furious movie (via Pixelfaker): Check out all the variations of the Walt Disney Pictures logo in the past 30 years: Speaking of the Disney castle (seen in those logos), here's a great time-lapse film of the construction of Disneyland (via Geek Tyrant): This might be the coolest Jaws poster I've ever seen, but it might scare your guests if you hang it in your home: Here are 15 things you might not know about... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Comics on Film: Ranking the Different Versions of Lex Luthor We've Seen So Far Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:45 PM PDT In the wide and diverse pantheon of comic book supervillains, there are few with as much interpretive room and staying power as Lex Luthor. Much like his nemesis Superman, who innovated the superhero itself back in 1938, Lex Luthor has proven to be the foundation upon which hundreds of other comic book supervillains are at least partially based. First appearing in April 1940's Action Comics #23, Luthor's most singularly defining characteristic has always been his brilliance. Whether you're looking at the Golden Age version that largely served as a mad scientist, to the career criminal of the 1970's, all the way down to the cunning corporate mogul of the 1990's and 2000's, the shade of Luthor's evil has always evolved with the times in which... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Director of 'It Follows' Talks Inspiration, Easter Eggs, Modern Horror and More Posted: 26 Mar 2015 07:30 PM PDT A funny thing recently happened to It Follows, the best American horror movie in recent memory. It opened in a small handful of theaters around the US on March 13, with a plan that it would then expand to VOD platforms not long after that, as is often the case with indie horror movies these days. But the response to the movie was so strong at the few theaters it did play in, distributor Radius-TWC decided to push back those VOD plans and give the movie a wide release starting tomorrow, March 27. This is great, great news because as much as we are fans of embracing VOD release plans, It Follows is a movie best seen on the big screen. This isn't like other, modern horror movies. It's not found footage. The camera doesn't constantly shake. This is a smart, crackling... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Watch a Supercut That Reminds Us How Important Dance Is to Movies Posted: 26 Mar 2015 06:15 PM PDT There are so many dance sequence in movies that to make a supercut of them would seem to be a daunting task. Certainly there will be some favorites left on the cutting room floor. But it needn't be about including the best or most famous numbers. To celebrate dance in cinema is to celebrate cinema itself. Tossing in a dance sequence in any number of movies has proven to be an interruptive measure meant to make the audience happy. There's a great power in dance scenes that relates to the power of movies as a whole -- they affect us. One thing that I thought of recently upon hearing about the dance sequence in Ex Machina is that dance transcends genre. It's long been associated with the musical, but that's not fair. Dance can be just as much associated with sci-fi... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Friday the 13th' Turns to 'Hannibal' For Inspiration Posted: 26 Mar 2015 04:30 PM PDT The Friday the 13th franchise is one of the best franchises around, primarily because it's also one of the most simple (not counting some of the convoluted story stuff the sequels introduce and then abandon). All you need to do is get some teenagers together in one location, and have a big dude with a hockey mask and a machete show up to ruin their good time. It is, on the surface, not that complicated. Below the surface, however, it must be much more complicated because we're going on six years now since the last Friday the 13th and Platinum Dunes has still not fully committed to doing a sequel. They've taken a big step forward this week, though, by hiring Nick Antosca to write the screenplay. He's part of the writing team behind the fantastic TV show... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Has Found its New Jubilee Posted: 26 Mar 2015 03:00 PM PDT The X-Men movie franchise doesn't exactly have a spotless track record when it comes to keeping track of its own internal continuity. And the explanation for that is pretty simple. Back when the first movie hit theaters in 2000, Bryan Singer and everyone else involved had no idea that superhero movies were going to become the interconnected monsters that they are today. They had no plan for who or what would be in their movies nearly two decades later, so they just made it up as they went along. That's why when X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters on May 27, 2016, it'll have a different actress playing the mutant Jubilee than the one we first glimpsed at Professor X's school in X-Men. In fact this will be the third actress to play Jubilee on the big screen, following... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Watch: The Schmoes Review 'Get Hard' Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:30 PM PDT The Schmoes are back with this week's video reviews. See what they thought about the new releases arriving in theaters below, and check out more of their reviews right here. Get Hard Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2015 12:00 PM PDT Rogue One: Veteran Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn (Exodus: Gods and Kings, TV's Bloodline) is said to be "circling" a starring role in Rogue One, the first Star Wars spinoff movie. Felicity Jones is set to star, with Gareth Edwards in the director's chair and Chris Weitz currently writing a new draft of the screenplay. Production is expected to begin this summer; it's scheduled for release on December 16, 2016. [Deadline] The Billion Brick Race: Because there can never be too many Lego movies, Jason Segel (The Muppet Movie) and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) will write and direct The Billion Brick Race, a spinoff of The Lego Movie. The project is in the early stages of development; it joins three other Lego-related movies that are in the works... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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