Movie Features

Trailer Tracker: Rise of the Planet of the Apes and More

Get your hands of my
trailer, you damn dirty ape! Our featured trailer this week, is the awkwardly
titled Rise of the Planet of the Apes
starring Andy Serkis and James Franco as ape and human respectively. Taylor
Lautner deviates from his shirtless Twilight origins to a likely shirtless
follow-up in Abduction, a Taken­-inspired thriller. The zombie
genre gets crossed with the now-popular vampire genre in the creepy indie
horror flick, Stake Land
and finally Emma Stone goes back to the less-than-accepting days of the 1960’s
exploring African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi.
We’re very accepting here on Player Affinity, let’s all hold hands and watch
some great clips, it’s Trailer Tracker.

Animation’s Continuous Love for the Animal Kingdom

Animals
provide us with a lot of joy, whether as pets, wild creatures or
performers. They have been the source for many lovable characters in
animated films, and the new release of Rio hopes to do that with
parrots in the city of Rio de Janeiro as filmmakers continue to look for
new animals and locations for their movies.

Most children are
acclimated to animals from an early age, from having pets, stuffed toys
and visiting attractions like zoos. Animal characters slowly made their
way into literature with books like The Jungle Book, The Wind and the Willow and Tarka the Otter,
as well as in fairy tales, from Puss in Boots to the wolf in Little Red
Riding Hood. Also, many animals are national symbols, from the Bald
Eagle for the United States, Lions for England, Tigers and Elephants for
India, Pandas being related to China, and the list goes on.

Box Office Wizard (4.15.11)

Welcome to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office prediction competition that you ignore every week because you don’t hath the stones of a real wizard. Entering is and always has been simple, so why not get your beard on and give it a try? Just read through this post and leave a comment with, in order, what you think the top five box office finishers will be this weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.

Dead Derrick Discusses: The “Scream” Series

In 1996, Wes Craven (creator of A Nightmare On Elm Street, which spawned an entire series of slasher films) created an entirely new scary movie franchise. This franchise turned the slasher genre on its head while following the formula that slasher films and sequels have followed since their creation. It threw new ingredients and different elements in this already successful horror sub-genre.

Trailer Tracker: Crazy, Stupid, Love, Anonymous and more

Our featured trailer this
week is a crazy, stupid one; Crazy,
Stupid, Love that is, a dramedy starring soon-to-be-leaving-The Office­ Steve Carell along with Ryan Gosling and
Julianne Moore. We also have a period thriller about the truth behind
Shakespeare’s work directed by Rolland Emerich…wait, let me check that…yes, ok
the man who directed The Day After
Tomorrow and 2012 is indeed
taking on a dramatic offering about the origins of the Oxfordian theory of
Shakespeare authorship. Then, rounding out the top five trailers this week is
the UFC-themed Warrior headlined by
rising-superstar Tom Hardy, the king-of-crazy Lars Von Trier’s latest Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst and
Kiefer Sutherland and finally the teaser for the Daniel Radcliff-starring
horror flick The Woman in Black. It
don’t matter if you’re black or white, it’s Trailer Tracker.

Sports Movie Madness: The Film Four – Vote Here!

We are in the home stretch with the final or “Film” Four of our Sports Movie Madness tournament here at Player Affinity. We started off with 64 sports films from six different major sports regions and one miscellaneous sports region and now we have the Film Four. How are your brackets doing? You mean you haven’t been with us since the beginning? Not too late friends. Here is where your vote really counts as we are just two rounds of voting away from the GREATEST SPORTS MOVIE OF ALL TIME as voted by you.

Box Office Wizard (4.8.11)

Actress Affinity: Saoirse Ronan

Sixteen-year-old Saoirse Ronan is clearly one of the most well respected actresses of her generation having been nominated for an Academy Award and picking her projects very carefully. And with the release of Hanna on the way she is about to break out of prestige pictures for more mainstream roles.

Born in New York in 1994, the Irish actress was born to acting stock, her father Paul having moderate success with roles in The Devil’s Own and Veronica Guerin.

The Man, The Myth, The Brand

There are those who would argue Jason Segel’s penis was the most memorable part of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But long after the remnants of that infamous nude scene have (thankfully) escaped me, one glorious moment remains tattooed in my brain: It’s the moment we discovered a legend, an icon, a God among men. I’m of course talking about Russell Brand. 

Sports Movie Madness: The Super 8 – Vote Here!

Even though UConn has officially ended the NCAA tournament with an impressive win over Butler for the national title, the Sports Movie Madness tournament continues here at Player Affinity. We are down to the final eight movies, affectionately called “The Super 8,” each representing the best film of its respective sport according to you, the voters. Now, your vote will help directly determine the best sports movie of all time.