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• 'Earth to Echo' Makes Us Wonder Where Are The Other Original Kid-Friendly Adventure Movies?
• Comics on Film: What Quentin Tarantino Got Wrong About Clark Kent
• Why the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Soundtrack Is So Much More Than a Bunch of Awesome Songs
• Here's Why You Shouldn't Change Your Name to Han Solo
• What Do Michael Bay's Friends and Coworkers Actually Think About Him?
• 'St. Vincent' Trailer: Bill Murray Is a Bad, Bad Influence
• Legendary Makeup Artist Rick Baker Reveals the First Crazy Monster He Ever Worked On
• Watch: Meet the Real-Life Demon-Hunting Cop from 'Deliver Us from Evil'
• The Original 'Toy Story' Almost Featured Barbie, G.I. Joe, a Mean Woody and More
• You Need to Watch These Three Short Films Tied to 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'

'Earth to Echo' Makes Us Wonder Where Are The Other Original Kid-Friendly Adventure Movies? Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:00 PM PDT Earth to Echo is a PG-rated live action-adventure movie starring kids, about kids and made for kids. Pause for a second and consider that. Consider how rare that is. In most ways, Earth to Echo is very much a modern movie. It's full of CGI. It's a nostalgic riff on already beloved ideas. It's "found footage." But at its core, it represents a kind of movie that simply isn't getting made anymore and one that is dearly missed: the live action kids' movie that takes itself seriously and delivers an actual adventure with actual stakes while actually being appropriate for kids. That's not to say Hollywood is lacking in quality family entertainment. In fact, 2014 has already given us one kid-friendly movie that doesn't insult its target... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Comics on Film: What Quentin Tarantino Got Wrong About Clark Kent Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT Last year, Man of Steel proved to be a commercially successful reinvigoration of the Superman film franchise. It wasn't a critical darling, and the reaction to the film by Superman comics fans can likely be generously described as "mixed." If you began a debate surrounding the film in a comic book store, you'd likely find both ardent defenders and detractors of the finished product. The usual suspects for conversation include Superman's method for defeating Zod and the film's inability to give credence to the idea of hope, along with the heavy levels of violence in Smallville and Metropolis. Another area that some fans take issue with is the fact that we never got to meet the new incarnation of Clark Kent as a reporter; the... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Why the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Soundtrack Is So Much More Than a Bunch of Awesome Songs Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT Gone are the days when young lovers would slave for hours over the intricate construction of an awesome mixtape, complete with attached note on looseleaf paper that read something like, "Will you go steady with me? Check yes or no." These days those young lovers can whip up a mixtape in seconds on Spotify or iTunes, which we're sure is still meaningful for its intended receiver, but lacks some of those adorable rough edges cassette tapes provided. However, the mixtape is making a comeback this summer, and surprisingly it's via a Marvel superhero movie. In honor of its lead character Peter Quill (aka Star-Lord, aka Chris Pratt), Guardians of the Galaxy has revealed quite the bitchin' soundtrack full of the kind of throwback tunes that would make any child of... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Here's Why You Shouldn't Change Your Name to Han Solo Posted: 02 Jul 2014 04:00 PM PDT Look dudes, we get it. Han Solo is a cool name. It belongs to one of the slickest, hippest movie characters of all time. A real hero. The guy who still wooed Princess Leia after he was literally frozen in carbonite. We can see how attractive that name might be to a young lad looking to impress... someone. We're not sure who, but there's probably someone out there who would want to befriend--and maybe even date--a guy whose name is Han Solo. Right? Well one guy figured he'd try it out, and he soon learned that unlike his namesake, being Han Solo in real life definitely has its travel restrictions. Thirty-four-year-old Star Wars fan (and U.K. resident) Dominic Kimberley just wanted to see how easy it would be to change his name to Han Solo, and thanks to a company... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

What Do Michael Bay's Friends and Coworkers Actually Think About Him? Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT Everyone has something to say about Michael Bay. Even if you don't watch his movies, you probably have an opinion of him, and that's not something you can say about many directors in Hollywood. But what do Michael Bay's actual peers think about him? GQ gathered together dozens of quotes from friends, family and fellow filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Will Smith, George Lucas, James Cameron and Shia LaBeouf to pool together a highly amusing portrait of the bombastic director. We have in turn pulled out some of our favorites below and separated them into categories:   Praise for Bayhem Gabrielle Union: You know when people talk about the very first time they did drugs? Being in a Michael Bay movie was like my drug. It's like I'm chasing the... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

'St. Vincent' Trailer: Bill Murray Is a Bad, Bad Influence Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT Bill Murray is in the news a lot these days for doing crazy (and totally awesome) things – like performing karaoke with strangers and crashing weddings -- so when someone mentioned to me that he was visiting Naomi Watts at a strip club, my first thought was “well, there goes Bill Murray doing cool things in real life again.” The catch is that it was actually a movie trailer. Naomi Watts apparently doesn’t need to supplement her income by working part time as an exotic dancer. Murray is front and center in the new trailer for St. Vincent – a comedy from Ted Melfi that finds the actor playing a gambler with a drinking problem who befriends the young boy who lives next door. Honestly, watching the clip, it reminds me a lot of Takeshi Kitano’s... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Legendary Makeup Artist Rick Baker Reveals the First Crazy Monster He Ever Worked On Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT [Image via Every '70s Movie] Award-winning makeup artist Rick Baker, who is famous for his work in horror cinema (An American Werewolf in London, The Exorcist, Videodrome) is a frequent Tweeter. Thank goodness for that, since the FX designer recently took to the social media website to share a photo of the first gig he ever got. Octaman was unleashed on the masses back in 1971 and was met with dismal ratings. The monster movie, about a team of researchers who are terrorized by a humanoid octopus, has since developed a cult following. If you’re thinking, “Gee this all sounds awfully familiar,” you would be right, as director and screenwriter Harry Essex also wrote the famed Creature from the Black Lagoon. Octaman doesn’t pretend to be something... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Watch: Meet the Real-Life Demon-Hunting Cop from 'Deliver Us from Evil' Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT   Ralph Sarchie is a decorated New York City police-sergeant veteran who seems like your typical tough guy from Queens, but he also happens to be a demonologist. His life story, detailed in his 2001 book Beware the Night, has been made into a new movie by Sinister director Scott Derrickson. Deliver Us from Evil opens in theaters this week. Sarchie is also the subject of this 15-minute documentary by Gabriel Noble. In the short, we learn that Sarchie considers demonic spirits “a different kind of perpetrator, but a perpetrator none the less.” Armed with holy water, incense and salt, the grizzled former detective visits people’s homes to perform cleansings, and yes, sometimes exorcisms. But the life of a famous demonologist (Sarchie studied with... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Original 'Toy Story' Almost Featured Barbie, G.I. Joe, a Mean Woody and More Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT   Pixar’s Toy Story has become a bona fide classic, but the tale of an anthropomorphic group of toys — led by a pull-string cowboy named Woody (Tom Hanks) and an astronaut action figure named Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) — almost featured totally different heroes. In fact, the original treatment for the film had quite a number of differences than the movie we “know and love,” according to creativity researcher Keith Sawyer’s book Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Creativity. The Atlantic created a thorough timeline that outlines all the versions of various characters and narratives. For starters: Woody, for example, started out as kind of a jerk. ("An early scene," Sawyer notes in the book, "had him abusing Slinky Dog, and... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

You Need to Watch These Three Short Films Tied to 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Posted: 02 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT We’re a little over a week away from the wide release of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but these new short films from Fox will help you get up to speed on everything that’s happened since the first movie ended in under an hour. The studio has teamed up with Vice to create a series of short films titled Before the Dawn. The new vignettes showcase how life has changed in the wake of the simian-flu outbreak that decimates humanity by exploring stories set one, five and 10 years after the disease appears. Also included is a trailer for Island of the Apes – a Vice documentary debuting later today about “Monkey Island” – a deserted lab in Liberia that’s been overrun by aggressive chimpanzees. Could this place be ground zero for a... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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