New ‘Star Wars’ trailer and tickets tonight!
Are you ready for some Star Wars?! If your interests intersect at the corner of NFL and R2D2 then you’re in luck: the next new trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens debuts tonight on...
View Article‘Star Wars’ giveaway; win it before the movie comes out!
LEGO toys and George Lucas’ Star Wars universe have long been entwined. You might even say they go together like plastic, multicolored, interlocking, construction blocks (You might say it; I wouldn’t)....
View Article‘Star Wars,’ it’s a pity. George Lucas … got lost … and never got out of it.
He may not be making too many movies of late,* but legendary and award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola keeps himself in the headlines with his, um, strong opinions. First it was his off-the-cuff...
View ArticleBest Movie Posters of 2015
Even in this modern world where their effectiveness might be up for debate, nothing gives me quite the same thrill as walking into movie theater lobby past all the posters of upcoming films. It...
View ArticleIt’s Gleeson season: Why Domhnall is one of 2015’s movie MVPs
While we turn our attention to the wide release this Friday of The Revenant, Alejandro Inarritu’s next film after winning last year’s directing Oscar for Birdman, and its award-winning potential for...
View ArticleOscar nominations I’d like to see tomorrow morning
The ballots have all been returned and the nominations will be announced in mere hours, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do a little wishful thinking and offer up some friendly suggestions to the Academy...
View ArticleThe Complete List of 2016 Oscar Nominees – Fortified with cheeky commentary!
The Revenant nearly ran the table with 12 nominations, tied with 15 other films, most recently Lincoln. Only 11 movies in Academy Award history have earned more. Makes the case for frontrunner status...
View Article‘Star Wars: Episode VIII” release date delayed seven months
Oh-oh. If Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens was a redo of the franchise-starting A New Hope, let’s subtitle Episode VIII “The First Order Strikes Back … Eventually.” That’s right, the sequel...
View Article‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ has begun! See the teaser announcement
So it looks like the as-yet-untitled Episode VIII of the final Star Wars trilogy will be picking up exactly where The Force Awakens left off. Specifically, on Skellig Michael, the craggy island seven...
View ArticleFinally, here are my favorite films of 2015
You can’t tell the players without …. having the chance to actually see them. Such is life outside the big cities. It always takes me extraordinarily long to complete my “best of” lists because, in the...
View ArticleMy Oscar predictions were sabotaged by a Russian spy
Despite his BAFTA, National Society of Film Critics Award and New York Film Critics Circle Award wins, Mark Rylance was not the favorite to win best supporting actor at the 88th Academy Awards last...
View ArticleHow many 2016 movies will be among the biggest of all time?
The calendar year 2016 is not even half over and already four films have landed on the list of the 50 highest-grossing movies of all time (not adjusted for inflation) – Captain America: Civil War, The...
View ArticleDamn you, ‘Star Wars’ movies!
Yeah, I said it. And also, this is a sort-of TV-centric post so be forewarned. It was just announced that the already-renewed second season of FX’s Atlanta — the just-crowned Golden Globe winner for...
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