Many people are of the camp that a Spider-Man reboot was and is completely unnecessary. Well, I disagree. The unraveling of “Spider-Man 4” might just turn out to be the best thing to happen to the franchise.
Spider-Man is easily one of the most iconic superheroes ever created, gracing the pages of comics, taking multiple forms in TV incantations and his movie series is just getting rebooted, so it is a good time to revisit the definitive Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man 2.
With July having just arrived, 2012 is a book halfway written. Given that the movie calendar dazzles more from July through December, the films from the first half of the year often get lost. This year, however, they shouldn’t be. We’ve seen tons of surprise hits this year, many of which you’ll read about below.
Imagine if MacFarlane had had the property rights to Corduroy or Paddington Bear? Not only would your childhood memories come to life, but they’d be rather hilarious. Here are several movie bears that we’d love to see interpreted with the mind of a deviant and the mouth of a sailor.
After his zany debut, Bottle Rocket and the endearing Rushmore, Wes Anderson wowed the film world with something raw, revelatory, and generation-defining. If you think I’m overstating it, pop in your DVD of The Royal Tenenbaums and really watch it.
When it comes to apocalyptic fare, for every 50 films like Armageddon and Resident Evil we get something unique – something you might not even initially associate with the popular (usually FX-heavy) Hollywood offerings.
History and cinema have paired up to give us unquestionable classics, but on some occasions they make strange bedfellows and one butchers the other. The upcoming release of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is taking “butchering history” to a new extreme by showing the 16th President of the United States fighting creatures of the night with an axe. With that in mind, we take a look at some movies that used fictionalized versions of historical events or alternative timelines.
The not-so-scary team of Mike and Sully are back in the trailers for Pixar’s first prequel Monsters University, which will explore their relationship before they were really friends at all. Then we have trailers for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, For a Good Time Call …, Sinister and V/H/S
On this episode of The Plot Hole, the gang – Simon, Sam, John and Steven – should be able to satisfy some gamers along with our regular cinephiles as we chat video game/movie news before delving into out July movie preview.
Pop culture in the 1980s was the best of times and the worst of times, yet its music has endured. Rock of Ages, starring Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin, hits theaters this weekend and features two dozen of the decades biggest hits. Here’s our final countdown of some of moviedom’s most memorable ’80s rock moments.
