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 Sure, innumerable beach days have been replaced by soul sucking cubicle work, but we’re hard wired to feel a metaphorical weight lift off of us in much the same way that we feel depressed when the summer comes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...
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...
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.
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 Read more...
Did you know Tim Burton had plans to do a sequel to Beetlejuice called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian? I know, it sounds like a joke your stoned roommate came up with after overdosing on pineapple, but I assure you it’s the truth. After the success of Beetlejuice, which was, let’s face it, SHEER UNADULTERATED GENIUS, studio execs asked Read more...
Class, today we examine the North American birder. An elusive lot, they can mostly be found in their natural habitat of marshy wetlands, stalking through the cattails in their khaki ensembles like watchful cats. Note the two-pound binoculars around their necks, the guidebooks peeking out of their trouser pockets, and their comically-large sunhats.
Hold onto your space helmets, kids. We’ve got exactly 50 years until 2062, when the world will morph into an animated scenescape of space-age aesthetics and conveniences. 100 years will have passed since the debut of the animated show, The Jetson’s—Hanna Barbera’s futuristic yin to The Flintstone’s yang—and life as we know it will be Read more...
There are a lot of theories about The Smurfs – that they’re all in some elaborate polyamorous relationship, that they’re cult members, that they’re scripted to brainwash children into conformity. But the most prevailing idea is they’re a bunch of Communists.
