Archive for May, 2012

Alf, last seen on an episode of The Love Boat, a failed TV Land talk show with Ed McMahon as his sidekick, and that dream where he, Chucky, and Rowlf the Dog are chasing you with knives (just me?), may be headed for a comeback.

No hoverboards, no flying cars, and hardly any dystopian madness — Back to the Future 2 (1989) promised us so much about 2015, and while there is still time, it really feels like it was all a crock. Still, one can’t deny the brilliance and heady ambition of a film whose adventure crisscrosses between the past, Read more...

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 Sure, innumerable beach days have been replaced by soul sucking cubicle work, but we’re hard wired to feel a metaphorical weight lift off of us in much the same way that we feel depressed when the summer comes Read more...

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 Read more...

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ (2012) 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.

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 Read more...

‘The Hunger Games’ (2012) 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.