Another week, and it’s a doozy! IN THIS WEEK’S “Captain Pike, I presume?” story, Star Trek: Discovery has found it’s Captain Pike for their USS Enterprise. Anson Mount has joined Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 in the role of Capt. Christopher Pike, Variety has learned. Mount will be the fourth actor to portray Pike, who…
I feel like we’re experiencing a lot of movies with giant monsters in them recently. It’s sort of a kaiju renaissance, if you will. This works out great for people like me. I love this stuff. But, just having giant monsters in your movie doesn’t mean it automatically good. And a film like Rampage isn’t…
Here comes another week of information to amaze and confound! IN THIS WEEK’S “Let’s hope ONE of them is good” story, According to Zachary Quinto, there are multiple scripts being written for the next Star Trek movie. Quinto told Entertainment Tonight Canada that he believes there are “a couple of scripts” in development. “There was…
If you didn’t think John Krasinski could do a horror movie, you would be wrong. Krasinski co-wrote, starred in, and directed A Quiet Place, and he pretty much nailed it. Set some time in the very near future, a family must live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place…
Welcome to another installment of stuff in the celluloid news! IN THIS WEEK’S “I’m not sure that clears things up” story, there are fan questions about Sony’ s Venom film. One of those recent questions has arisen from rumors that Tom Hardy will never actually suit up in the Venom suit. Well, Hardy himself went…
Woah, already big stuff this week! IN THIS WEEK’S “This ain’t schwifty” story, according of Dan Harmon, season 4 of Rick & Morty is in limbo. After a disgruntled fan complained to Harmon for not working on the new season of Rick & Morty, Harmon confirmed that Adult Swim hasn’t officially picked up another season…
As much as I love a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, I have to say that Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Pacific Rim, is a typically lesser film. I think, though, where it fails most is simply in the lack of the unique tone of Guillermo del Toro’s original. That weird, over-the-top…
More shenanigans from the celluloid capital of the world. In this week’s “Now THESE are actors” story, Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen are to star as leads in New Line’s new drama, The Good Liar. The film will be directed by Bill Condon, who most recently helmed Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Condon will also…
We’re back already with ore stuff to report! Stuff keeps happening! In this week’s “What, already?” story, actor Michael Trevino, who starred in The Vampire Diaries, will next star in the CW’s reboot of Roswell. I guess I’m more befuddled by a Roswell reboot, but whatever. Trevino will star in the role previously played by…
I can see the pitch now: “What two kinds of movies do people love? Heist movies! And natural disaster movies!” “Uh huh…sure.” “So what if we combined the them…? Like, a cross between Twister, and The Italian Job and Fast and Furious? And we’ll even got Rob Cohen, the guy that created and directed The…