“Finding Joe” a new documentary which takes a look at Philosopher/Mythologist Joseph Campbell has a new trailer which can be seen below: Joseph Campbell was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College for 38 years. His seminal work, “A Hero with a Thousand Faces” was published in 1949 and greatly influenced generations of artists and writers, including Bob Dylan, Jim... Read More

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is one of the best movies of the summer and delivers everything that Tim Burton, Mark Wahlberg couldn’t in 2001’s “Planet of the Apes”, and characters we care about. James Franco plays Will Rodman, a genetic researcher who is obsessed with pushing for a drug to get to human trials that will repair brain cells and lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s. ... Read More

If you don’t know what that headline’s about you haven’t been watching NBC’s hilarious comedy ‘Community’.  Check out the compilation video of all of Magnitude’s “Pop, Pops!”, which NBC has put together, below.  Read More

This week’s home video offering feature 1 Brilliant Doctor, 1 Mind Altering Drug, 1 Super Secret Team of British Investigators, and 1 Night of Partying. Doctor Who Season 6.1 The First half of the current season hits stands today.  This is great for those fans without access to BBC America, who don’t want to get it through illegal means.  The season kicked off with... Read More

I did not see “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” for almost two weeks after its release. I saw the first two films on opening day.  I loved the first one. “Revenge of the Fallen” was such a colossal disappointment on almost every level.  There’s no way a film that made billions of dollars is going to retool to make a better third film right? Wrong.  “Dark of the Moon”... Read More

It took one cherry bomb a year to get me to write about another cherry bomb.  Thank you for getting this story out there.  You know who you are. I have only seen “Titanic” once.  I don’t remember over half of what happened in that movie and I have to blame a red headed woman for this incident.  I’m a big James Cameron fan.  I know “Titanic” is not “Terminator”,... Read More

As a child of the 80s I grew up on a steady diet of films directed or produced by Steven Spielberg, with E.T., Gremlins, The Goonies, and Back to the Future among them.  One of the things all of these films had in common were that they all featured protagonists that were either kids or teens.  So when I heard J.J. Abrams (Lost, Fringe, Cloverfield) was working with Spielberg... Read More

“Super 8″ has been shrouded in secrecy during its whole production and marketing campaign.  This is unconventional for Hollywood that loves to give you the Cliff Notes in the trailer.  Director J.J. Abrams and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg bet big that people would see this movie if you showed them less.  Abrams with “Super 8″ has made a touching... Read More

In the early 1960s, before the rise and explosion of mutants, Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr  were just beginning to discover their powers.  Eric is a child of the Holocaust and is introduced to Sebastian Shaw, a man who is interested in his powers. Charles Xavier grows up in New York and finds little Raven (Mystique) stealing food out of his kitchen.  He takes her in and... Read More

Fan made poster by Jeffrey Zhang Comic book movies seem to fall into one of three categories: 1) the flop, usually a bad idea which leads to disappointment to both the general audience and to the fanboys at large, see Catwomen, Ghost Rider, The Watchmen. 2) The origin story, which is usually pretty good, but has to spend a lot of time setting up things for the next films in the... Read More