Yesterday news broke that JJ Abrams – best known for, well, everything he’s ever done ever (except maybe Felicity) – would be directing the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII film for Disney. Abrams has been the fan favorite for the role since the news broke that Disney was acquiring the […]
Hansel and Gretel Grow Up, Kick Ass, and Take Names
Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretel. Two children who are taken out and abandoned in the woods only to find a house made of sweets where an evil with lives. They are captured and kept until the witch decides to eat them and then the two cleverly kill […]
Mamá era una buena película de terror
No, this review is not in Spanish. But it does have a number of spoilers so you may want to beware. A few days ago I had the opportunity to check out the new Guillermo del Toro flick, Mama, a day or two before release thanks to a screening hosted […]
Top Five Reasons to Watch Dredd
In the past week, I’ve watched Dredd a countless amount of times since it was released on January 8th. Now I’m no super fan of the Judge Dredd series, in fact, I hadn’t even heard of the series until the movie. I was not aware it was a remake of […]
Dave Franco and Jonathan Levine Present: Warm Bodies
On January 15th, Phoenix moviegoers were once again given the opportunity to check out a pre-screening of the upcoming zombie romance film Warm Bodies. But this time there was a surprise twist! (Well, most of us know about it already but hey.) After the film, writer and director Jonathan Levine […]
A Six Month Trial of Amazon Student Means A Lot of Free Sci-Fi and Fantasy Shows and Movies
I am a big fan of Amazon Prime. As a student, I get a 50% discount on all it’s paid services and so I pay $40 a year instead of $80 like non-student members. Which is pretty sweet. Amazon Prime offers a lot of features that I think are pretty […]
My Expansive and Undulating Feelings About Pacific Rim
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKz7WnU83E] When I say I have undulating feelings about Pacific Rim, make no mistake, they undulate between so excited I could cry and gripping my seat with shaking anticipation. Ok, so maybe I exaggerated my claims a little, but I am seriously stoked for this movie. I have known about […]
The Pacific Rim Trailer Is Two Parts Gundam With A Dash of Evangelion And a Hint of RahXephon
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZcqwvQbas] Hollywood is finally getting hip to the giant robot craze. Next year’s Pacific Rim will join last year’s Real Steel – and I suppose the Transformer series – in the budding giant robot genre. Of course, fans of Japanese anime have been long familiar with giant robots. And Pacific Rim seems […]
An Unexpected Journey Was An Unexpected Hit… At Least For Me
Long have I been a Tolkien fan. I absolutely love high fantasy. Some people can’t get into a completely new world and completely new rules and it doesn’t work for them, but it totally does for me. I love the extensive detail that Tolkien put into his universe, and it […]
Another of Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew is Getting A Big Screen Promotion
Yet another Stephen King short story is coming to the big screen. Mercy – based off the short story ‘Gramma’ from the Skeleton Crew anthology – follows two a woman and her two sons as they move to Maine to care for their titular elderly grandmother. It’s a horror film […]