With the rise of internet message boards and the endless stream of fan sites since the turn of the millennium, we’ve heard extreme voices of love and hate rise to do battle over every new release. These days, it seems just about any film can inspire a passionate debate between fans and haters, but some are such extreme cases that it’s almost impossible to discuss it without having a mediator present to defuse the inevitable conflict....
Over the past few years, television horror has enjoyed a bit of a renaissance. From series about serial killers to the return of the anthology thrillers, most major networks have at least experimented with adding more frightening elements to their primetime lineups. Series like Scream and Bates Motel pay homage to beloved horror movies. Others, like The Vampire Diaries and Penny Dreadful tap into timeless lore about things that go bump in the night....
Some Avengers just are not mighty enough to keep up with the likes of Odin or Thanos, so they end up using their wits, ingenuity, and sometimes their friends, to become more. Daredevil, for example, has the power of sight without actually having the ability to see, he does not have super strength or speed. He makes up for that with his intelligence and fighting prowess, which includes the use of various weapons....
Just in case you didn’t know, Asian horror puts American horror to shame, so it’s time to broaden your horizons. South Korea, in particular, has emerged as a major force in the genre by practically inventing a new sub-genre of revenge-themed psychological thrillers. Train to Busan, for example, broke records and became the country’s top-grossing films of all time (and an international hit as well). Considering that South Korea didn’t start churning out stellar horror films until the late ’90s, their genre domination is well-deserved and nothing short of remarkable....
With the ever increasing number of networks, online streaming services and more putting out quality TV series nowadays, it’s easy to lose track of where all of this television is coming from. One of the major networks’ big secrets in recent years has been the number of TV series that actually hail from the Great White North. While many series have been moving to filming in Canada because it’s cheaper than Los Angeles or NYC, others have always been based in Canada, casting primarily Canadian actors and using a Canadian crew....
As the most gossiped about people on the planet, celebrities consider being talked about as part of their job. While that often comes in the form of looking at their professional prospects, there is still no doubt that for many, the topic of most interest is their personal life. As such, when famous people become a couple or break up, others that have nothing to do with them can have strong feelings about the situations....
The iPod is a funny product. It fundamentally changed Apple and yet it has been slowly and unceremoniously murdered by its successors, the iPhone and the iPad. iPod has a long and storied history, from how it came to be to the sheer number of models that the company worked on for two decades. The original iPod was the very first handheld consumer electronic that Apple made post Steve Jobs’ return to the company and it kickstarted a revolution in virtually every major industry around the world....
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR AHEAD. Infinity Waris the movie we’ve all been waiting for. For the past six years, we were all teased with the appearance of the Mad Titan and the prospect of complete chaos and destruction. Marvel installed fear and anticipation into a character who we barely even saw– and they definitely didn’t fail to impress. Avengers: Infinity War threw down the gauntlet and became one of the best Marvel movies to date....
It was announced recently that Mean Girls, the musical, was going to be made into a movie, leaving the vast majority of people scratching their heads because the musical was already based on a movie. So now, it looks like we will be living in a world where there exists, Mean Girls the movie, Mean Girls the musical, and Mean Girls the musical movie. This announcement has just reiterated everyone’s assumption that Hollywood is indeed scared of original content and would much rather invest in sure-fire successes....
The network that specializes in millennial drama has definitely found itself in as many dramatic situations behind the cameras as well as in front of it. The juiciest stories of drugs and feuds come from wild, power crazed, actors, but on the other side of the coin, the CW has developed a reputation for producing many of the more responsible and professional television actors in the business. Some of the stars have been known to begin to confuse their character’s fame with their own invulnerability, and other have become too seriously influenced by the troubled youths they play on screen....
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days cast member Darcey Silva is back on for season 3 of the show, but this time with a new foreign fiancé. Fans of the show know Darcey from her previous and horribly rocky relationship with Amsterdam native, Jesse Meester, from season 1 and 2. TLC followed this mother of two who left everything behind in America to go to Amsterdam to meet her long-distance boyfriend, Jesse....
Adobe released updates to its Photoshop and Fresco ecosystem on iPad and Mac today, adding long-awaited features and new capabilities. Most exciting are updates to Photoshop on iPad, which has gradually added desktop-class features since its initial release in 2019. New today are the Healing Brush and Magic Wand tools. From Adobe: Also new is Canvas Projection, a tool that enables you to connect an iPad to a monitor or TV using HDMI or USB-C and share your canvas fullscreen....
MTV started life as the music video network. However, since its creation in 1981, things have really changed for Music Television. Now, music videos are very much a rarity on MTV, not the main focus. MTV is firmly into the world of original programming having some scripted series, but many more reality shows. Yet despite that moniker, most of MTV’s reality shows are far from real. While they might involve real people (aka not actors) that doesn’t mean everything that happens on MTV show is organic....
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, in addition to a number of other Marvel-based movies, have given popularity to a vast number of actors. Hugh Jackman, Chris Evans, and many others can credit a large portion of their fan base to the respective Marvel movies that they starred in. Even actors like Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch who were well known actors before they became Marvel heroes saw their careers boom after starring in these movies....
Power Rangers has been going strong ever since the original Mighty Morphin Rangers first suited up in 1993. The series has switched hands to Disney, switched back to Saban and now is set to get a new movie series, complete with a cast of fresh faces and Elizabeth Banks doing what she does best: portraying a weird person in weird makeup. She’s like a Burton-less Johnny Depp. But dredging up a nostalgic-yet-widely mocked series about brightly-clad teenagers fighting unconvincing monsters isn’t going to be an easy task, and the movie will need more than a sizable special effects budget to bring the original Power Rangers to a new generation....
Ghostbusters, Ben Hur, Star Wars, every Disney movie ever… Reboots are all the rage right now, and if this trend continues, we may be seeing everyone’s favorite ’80s war hero back on the big screen. Rambo V: Last Blood has been in development since the release of Rambo (the confusingly-titled fourth entry in the series), but information has been limited to the odd interview with star Sly Stallone, who occasionally talks about revisiting the franchise....
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins ushered in new era of YA fiction and caused a wave of dystopian sci-fi work to crash into the mainstream imagination, including the Maze Runner series and the Divergent series. With its searing critique of capitalism and corruption, The Hunger Games pose questions to modern societies, though it’s set in the future in the fictional nation of Panem, built from the ashes of North America....
When casting for a movie, filmmakers will regularly have to play a game of chance. While some actor choices may be the “safe” actors, other choices are the risky actors that sometimes pay off in a phenomenal way, but may also backfire horrendously, ruing the entire movie. Not only can bad casting choices ruin movies, but they can also ruin franchises, such as Terminator and Indiana Jones. This is unfortunately not unheard of in the superhero genre, as many casting decisions are so awful that they end up ruining the entire movie....
Now that we’re officially in the Halloween season, many movie fans will be watching some of their favorite horror films to celebrate. While there’s many subgenres to choose from, nothing says a scary movie night more than a collection of good slasher films. Not only have these films provided thrills and screams, but our fascination with these masked villains have led us to dress up as them on October 31st....
Nintendo has been around since the late 1800s, no matter how hard to believe that sounds. Starting with manufacturing playing cards and toys, they eventually found their way to video games and have delivered countless masterpieces, along with technical and creative revolutions to the industry to the point that they’re rightfully referred to as the “Disney of video games.” With beloved characters like Mario and Link, and a reputation of family-friendly fun for all (for better or worse), the world and the video game industry are a better place because of Nintendo....
