When Ridley Scott signed on to direct the prequel to the ‘Alien’ franchise (something he started, but soon abandoned) no one really asked any questions, even though it made no sense. Why would a director who has climbed so high since late ’70s retreat back to a prequel of his first success, especially after it [...]

Last night, millions of people watched Kathryn Bigelow put the hurt on James Cameron in an otherwise predictable Oscars. Now that Hollywood is all through congratulating itself, it’s time to usher in the blockbusters from each studio and see if they can set records, or at least, entertain some summer patrons. The easiest bet of [...]

‘Ghostbusters 3′ has been a hopeful rumor for fans ever since the franchise came to a respectable halt in 1989. Then there was the case of the surprisingly well-received Ghostbusters video game last year. That, coupled with the scattered interest being shown from cast members Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and all of [...]

Make no mistake, this year there is exactly one Oscar race for best picture: ‘Avatar’ vs. ‘The Hurt Locker’. While Avatar plans on riding the “biggest movie of all time” wave all the way to the Academy’s top prize, almost everyone admits that despite eye-popping aesthetics, the story was recycled and banal. ‘The Hurt Locker’ [...]

After the seemingly endless line of praise for 3D in the last months, the man who turned the theatrical evolution into the gold standard, James Cameron, is finally speaking out against all of the cruddy, pop-up-book 3D that is employed by most Hollywood pictures.
In his words…
“So there is an evolution, people are now starting to not accept [...]

Nothing rouses the masses of geekdom with more fervor and excitement like San Diego’s annual Comic-Con. It’s a weekend when one of the most beautiful cities in the world finds itself overrun with grown men in Storm Trooper outfits, fanatics who think the LOST island is really out there and, as of late, women with [...]

In the last few years, the SciFi network has made some relatively big-budgeted, considerably well-made B-movies. They have titles like ‘Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus’ and they star quasi actors like Deborah Gibson. They’re, of course, intended to be cheeky genre mash-ups; the kind of movies that go well with a case of beer and [...]

Remember the exciting wordplay, dense mythology and rich characters in ‘Avatar’. No? How about the big ass tree that exploded at the end? Maybe that rings a bell. Or maybe what you  remember from James Cameron’s epic FX game changer is just one giant, swirling 3D collage of vibrant colors and sweet aerial battles. In [...]

Last week Warner Bros. reported that they had recruited Christopher  Nolan to mentor their dwindling ‘Superman’ franchise in hopes that he can infuse a little of the flair that helped make the current ‘Batman’ franchise such a monster success. Now it looks like Columbia Pictures has adopted the same plan of attack in an effort [...]

Quite simply, ‘Kick-Ass’ looks like every shade of awesome. It’s a hard-R, well-casted, conceptually flawless film about not-so-superheroes that — dare I say — actually looks original. Sample footage of the flick made a huge splash at Comicon last year, with reports igniting way back then that it would one of the most buzzed about [...]