Back in 1998, Capcom hired George A. Romero to direct a Japanese commercial for Resident Evil 2. The results were so impressive that Sony wanted to hire the zombie-movie pioneer to direct a big-screen adaptation of the hit video game.…
Earlier today, we posted about Margaret Cho’s account of a “fight” she had with Tilda Swinton regarding her controversial casting in Doctor Strange, in which Swinton played the Ancient One, a character who originally was written as Tibetan in the…
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has made it very clear that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a standalone movie. The sequel is A New Hope and that’s that. However, if that’s the case, why do some of the actors…
Fox is developing Familiar, a show about a family trying to put an A.I. in every home. Also, presumably, while having high family drama. Read more… Source: io9
For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about an environmentally centered science fiction disaster film called Geostorm, starring Gerard Butler and directed by Independence Day and Stargate producer Dean Devlin. But it sounds like we hadn’t even heard…
While playing Astroneer, I kept messaging my colleagues about cool ways it had killed me. It was a morbid thing to be excited about. But a satisfying death is the hallmark of a good survival game, and, even in its…
Rogue One is billed as a standalone Star Wars movie, but it’s far more entrenched in the story of the saga than many of us had thought. That’s not just in terms of its setting, though—it’s because it’s jam-packed with…
The Lord of the Rings: The Extended Motion Picture Trilogy, $40 There are quite a few permutations of the Lord of the Rings films out there on Blu-ray, but the extended editions are the ones you want, and the extended…
One of the increasingly enjoyable parts of TBS’ People of Earth, a show about an alien abductee support group that isn’t actually wrong about what happened to them, is the development of the aliens as characters. Think…regular office workers who…
In movies, there’s usually a moment where everything clicks. Where the image, emotion, and sound meet in perfect harmony and no matter what happens before or after, you realize you are in love with this moment. The cinema of 2016…