Even those of us who have leveled up and out of school feel the thrill of summer rising. Sure, innumerable beach days have been replaced by soul sucking cubicle work, but we’re hard wired to feel a metaphorical weight lift off of us in much the same way that we feel depressed when the summer comes to an end, that school schedule laced into our bones, the fear of returning to school always sticking with us. That’s why Billy Madison (1995) sticks with me — hillarious, but also frightening because Sandler’s character is forced to return to class as an adult in an effort to gain control of his fathers company (Madison Hotels).

The film was co-written by Sandler and it co-stars ...

Apparently seeing green has Marvel Studios seeing green. Previously averse to the idea of yet another solo-Hulk movie after the awful Ang Lee helmed Hulk and the underrated Incredible Hulk, Marvel is pondering a deeper exploration of the rage monster and his angsty alter-ego thanks to the early overseas box office of The Avengers and the strong critical buzz surrounding Mark Ruffalo‘s performance as Bruce Banner in the film, according to a new article on Forbes.com. (more…)

We’re all in The Avengers overload, but off in the distance, standing tall above us all, watching and waiting, exists The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film, and the comic book movie that may overtake Marvel’s The Avengers in both box office receipts and nerd love. (more…)

Who needs Charlie Sheen? With audiences responding positively to Ashton Kutcher and CBS hungry to keep their top Monday night show rolling along, the network has reportedly agreed to a sizable new deal with the former messiah-beard wearing That 70′s Show star. How sizable? We’re not talking Charlie Sheen, $2 million an episode money, but Kutcher will reportedly pull in $700k per episode with a signing bonus, so, roughly what he made this season. (more…)

I’ll admit I was a little late to The Hunger Games party. The whole kids-killing-kids angle freaked me out because, as a mom, I can only too readily imagine my daughter being forced into that arena. (more…)

Quentin Tarantino continues his slide away from visceral and violent crime dramas toward violent historical fare with ‘Django Unchained’, his spaghetti-western influenced followup to ‘Inglorious Basterds’. The film, which trains its focus on the southern slave trade of the pre-Civil War era, is still in production, but EW has the first two stills of stars Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz, and a hammer wielding Leonardo DiCaprio as well as a brief interview with Mr. Foxx. (more…)

Released on April 13th, 2012, The Cabin In The Woods follows a group of college students who dive into their van and drive towards their weekend getaway. What starts as a very typical, yet familiar story suddenly turns into a free-for-all roller-coaster ride. (more…)

Heads were tilted in confusion when American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy announced that his cast would be upended following the debut season of the horror anthology series, but when Murphy explained “there are a lot of actors who have their own careers and don’t want to make a five-year commitment; this gives people who haven’t done TV before an opportunity”, it made more sense. (more…)

Let’s get this out of the way: New Girl isn’t for everyone. Baby Boomers, lawyers, people who don’t like dessert, people who watch a lot of PBS or Nascar, people who don’t find baby hamsters wearing comical hats to be the cutest thing ever, people who say “theatah” – you will not like this show.

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The 80s and 90s were all about weird scripted kid’s shows with ridiculous premises. From Mork and Mindy to Alf and Jem and the Holograms, turning on the TV was as much a practice in surrealist art appreciation as mindless entertainment.

One of my favorite 90s kid’s shows was the awesomely ridiculous Fresh Prince of Bel Air—a show about a real life rapper and his sidekick, DJ Jazzy Jeff, set in a fictional scenario—the(much better) precursor, if you will, to Miley Cyrus playing Miley on Hannah Montana. (more…)