It isn’t every day you get to interview someone like Edgar Wright – someone so interesting, insightful, inspired. This guy clearly loves movies. He loves to watch them, to make them, to think about them, to talk about them. And after spending 45 minutes on the phone with him, I can already tell: This is the kind of dude you want to …
When I sat down last Sunday to isolate the ten greatest moments of the original “Star Wars” trilogy, I’ve got to be honest here: The very first thing that popped into my mind was this (starting at 0:30):
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Not sure why, but there ya go. There are lots of great moments in the …
I expect this debate to rage for some time. So let me cut to the chase, with any pretense of an answer: Is Empire Strikes Back the best Star Wars film?
Sure, it’s a thought that we casually consider when discussing George Lucas’ canon, or when discussing the best sequels of all time. Or discussing just why Star Wars started to veer …
Move over Bella and Edward, a whole new vampire franchise is about to take the country by storm. And for those who have been dying for a sneak peek: The red band trailer just launched today via facebook. Check it out here.
I love how we get just a glimpse of this little girl, scaling the tree. A fleeting vision of an image that is …
There were plenty of big announcements at 2010 Comic-Con. Guillermo Del Toro said he was going to direct a Haunted Mansion remake. Marvel gave loyalists the biggest headline of the fest with the on-screen appearance of all the Avengers standing side by side, even Mark Ruffalo as Edward Norton’s replacement.
But I said all the way back …
It’s not every day that a Comic-Con film is chosen to grace the cover of Entertainment Weekly. So it was little surprise Saturday, when the crowds flooded Hall H to catch a glimpse of Green Lantern, which had been singled out by EW as the single biggest event of the 2010 festivities. (See EW’s exclusive gallery of celeb portraits from …
There’s no doubt about it: Jeff Bridges is a really nice guy. In the eye of the Comic-Con hurricane, attached to the most popular property of the year, he has nothing but smiles and thoughtful answers for journalists. And after learning a little bit more about the project, and all that was involved in bringing the TRON universe back to …
There have already been a lot of movie screenings at Comic-Con – a lot of big cheers for Harry Potter and sneers each and every time the trailer for Devil, bearing the name of one M. Night Shyamalan, screens.
But I think it’s pretty safe to say that the most heads cocked to one side, and the most jaws dropped in disbelief, during …
Will TRON: Legacy live up to all the hype? Who knows. But I learned three big things from the packed TRON party Friday night inside Flynn’s Arcade on Sixth Avenue in downtown San Diego. For starters, Disney is banking some major coin on the TRON future. Second, even if the movie is a disappointment we’ll have at the very least five …
“How about Harry F’in Potter!”
That was how Zack Snyder put it a couple minutes after thousands of the Comic-Con faithful checked out the very first footage from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Saturday afternoon. Potter was the lead-in to Snyder’s hallucinogenic Sucker Punch screening (a whole lot more about that later), and …
Right before hopping a plane for Comic-Con, I was on vacation with my family, and I found myself engaged in a vigorous debate about the value of 3-D.
Most people said they were sick of the whole fad, and I kept telling them that I had been in the same boat, until I sat down to see Avatar last December.
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Just a couple hours ago, I wrote about how celebrating Star Wars Day today at Comic-Con allowed us to look beyond all the crass industry hype and remember, just for a day, the experiences back in 1977 and 1980 that galvanized a whole generation of sci-fi nerds.
Well now, only a couple minutes later, I find myself scratching my head …