Weekend Roundtable: Invent a Transformer
This week’s ‘Age of Extinction’ may be the fourth entry in the blockbuster ‘Transformers’ franchise, but it certainly won’t be the last. Before Michael Bay gets to work on his next robot-on-robo...
This week’s ‘Age of Extinction’ may be the fourth entry in the blockbuster ‘Transformers’ franchise, but it certainly won’t be the last. Before Michael Bay gets to work on his next robot-on-robo...
Musicals may have fallen out of favor with modern movie audiences quite some time ago. Nevertheless, filmmakers periodically attempt to revive the genre, usually to mixed success. As Clint Eastwood gives it a try with this week...
Hollywood is going to continue adapting old TV shows into new movies. That much is a given, and there’s no sense in fighting against the trend. For this week’s Roundtable, we toss out some suggestions for source materi...
Music is so often an undervalued component of any film’s success. A great musical score can enhance not just our excitement, but also our emotional involvement with a story and its characters. In this week’s Roundtable...
As Disney’s infamous ‘Sleeping Beauty’ villainess Maleficent gets her own live-action reboot in theaters this week, we’ll use today’s Roundtable to highlight some of our other favorite animated baddie...
As we head into another long holiday weekend (yes, the blog will be closed on Monday), Memorial Day seems like a good opportunity to watch some classic war movies. In this week’s Roundtable, we’ll offer our suggestions...
Over the course of his illustrious film career, Godzilla has clashed with King Kong, Mothra and even Roland Emmerich’s in-name-only ‘Zilla impersonator. In this week’s Roundtable, we’d like to pitch some su...
We’re going to try something a little different in this week’s Roundtable. Inspired by the new Seth Rogen comedy ‘Neighbors‘ (which is not, as far as I can tell, a remake of the 1981 John Belushi/Dan Aykroy...
A superhero is really only as good as the rogues gallery of villains he has to battle. As a new ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ sequel swings into theaters this weekend, we’ll use today’s Roundtable to call out some o...
From James Dean to Marilyn Monroe, Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman, cinema history is cluttered with stars whose lives were tragically cut short right in the primes of their careers. As we witness the posthumous release of...
When it comes to the depiction of computers or the internet in movies and TV, Hollywood screenwriters almost universally have no concept at all of what computers do or how they work. Pretty much any time you see a computer in a mo...
A couple years ago, we ran a Roundtable here about Favorite Ghost Story Movies. This week’s theatrical release of the haunted mirror flick ‘Oculus’ brings the subject up again, so let’s turn it around and t...