Monthly Archives: August 2010
Retro Review: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The 4th computer-animated film of 2001 blasts into your multiplex this Friday. If you haven’t heard about this film I guarantee that every child you know under 12 has. Go, Jimmy, Go. “Jimmy Neutron” is a mathematical whiz, a rocket engineer, a test-pilot, a robot dog-owner and an inventor. The crazy thing is Jimmy hasn’t [...]
Spider-Man Through the Ages: Part 1
Spider-Man Through the Ages will take you across Spider-Man on TV. Each of the 10 TV series will be looked at in-deep detail ranging fron 1967 to 2008. Be here every Monday as the Soothsayer Never Sleeps goes Spidey crazy! THE CLASSIC TV SERIES SPIDER-MAN (1967) (aka The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man) Lifespan: 1967-1970 Number of [...]
Retro Review: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist!
Oh the horrible, horrible memories. Why, oh why was this movie even made? “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” stars “Ace Ventura 2” writer Steve Oederkerk as “The Chosen One” who seeks to bring forth his vengeance on the man who killed his parents, the evil warlord “Betty”. As for that tidbit, that’s about the entire [...]
Retro Review: The Inside Man
It seems like ever since the inception of film, Hollywood has had bank-robbers who dream of the perfect bank job. A job that goes down like clock-work and that the robber gets away unharmed. Everything from the 1903 classic “Great Train Robbery” to 1975’s “Dog Day Afternoon” to 2001’s “The Score”, we have seen plans [...]
WTF NEWS?: NIKE developing Back to the Future Shoes!
SOURCE: COLLIDER.COM If you watched Back to the Future Part II as a kid, then you probably grew up wanting a hover board along with Marty McFly’s self-lacing shoes. Although we are still (hopefully) a few years away from hover boards, Nike has filed a patent for a shoe that strongly resembles Marty’s sneakers from the future. [...]
Retro Review: High Fidelity
Trying for a “Reality Bites” type feel we are faced with a comedy about breaking up. This is funny? “High Fidelity”, based on the cult novel by Nick Hornby, is a about a rash, lazy, socially confused, record store owner named Rob Gordon (John Cusack). Rob is faced with the fact that he is the [...]
Retro Review: Swordfish
Hugh Jackman, John Travolta, Halle Berry and Don Cheadle star in a cyber-thriller about the battle of wits between a hacker and a super-spy. Can this all-star cast reawaken Travolta’s fading career? Or is it best to put this pony out to pasture? Hugh Jackman is the central figure of this thriller. Jackman plays Stanley [...]
TV NEWS: AMC’S THE WALKING DEAD TRAILER
Based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, director Frank Darabont (‘Shawshank Redemption’) brings forth a new look at the zombie genre in a new epic TV series. This is probably one of the most anticipated series of the new fall season. What a brilliant trailer!
Retro Review: Guess Who?
In the immortal 1967 classic, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”, a couple’s (Spencer Tracey, Katharine Hepburn) attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home her prospective fiancé (Sidney Poitier), who happens to be black. The film was a landmark of its time on so many fronts and challenged so many attitudes of the time. It [...]
WTF NEWS: Hurt Locker Reality Series coming!
SOURCE: HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Exclu: G4 has ordered a high-stakes documentary-style reality show that follows a bomb-disposal squad in Afghanistan. Billed as a real-life version of the Oscar-winning film “The Hurt Locker,” the Comcast-owned cable channel has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of “Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan.” The show’s producers (unrelated to the team behind the film) secured [...]
