Kelly Asbury, the director of Shrek 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, and Smurfs: The Lost Village, has a background as a story artist on films like Toy Story, Beauty & the Beast, Kung-Fu Panda, Madagascar, and a host of other films you’ve seen. But the fifty-nine-year-old director still remembers what it was like to be left…
While there are some comic superheroes aimed at kids, like Spider-Man, the latest trend in superhero movies is to make them dark and ultimately, UN-family friendly. But in horror director David F. Sandberg’s surprisingly kid-friendly film, audiences can see what it would be like if a tween was suddenly emboldened by newfound superheroes and was…
This is not Teen Titans Go! or Young Justice, and certainly not Superfriends. This is the DC Universe if it mashed up the origin stories of the Titans were thrown into the world of?Watchmen?or?Kickass, a world where the actual evil that created Raven or Robin or Beast Boy was played out in darker hues than…
Whatever one thinks about the city of Gotham, it always has the ability to get worse. In the case of the fifth season of FOX’s Gotham, the worst has come. Five years ago, the show was unveiled as a view into the lives of Jim Gordon (Southland’s Ben McKenzie) and teenage Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz)….
As the fifth season of BBC’s Luther concluded, the British TV juggernaut has released the complete footage of all five of the seasons. Idris Elba has bulled his way through an onslaught of evil – some close to his heart, some within his heart – and for nine years we were held captivated by the…
With the release of Tim Story’s Shaft from Kenya Barris’ (Blackish) script, fans of the legendary crimefighter can see what three generations of the first black hero on screen with Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jessie Usher. Just in time, Warner Bros. Archives has released the triple feature of Roundtree’s original three Shaft films…
Google 90 Feet From Home and you get that Shawn “The Heartbreak Kid” Michaels is starring as an alcoholic, abusive stepfather to two teenage boys just trying to survive. Dig a little deeper and you’ll see that director/screenwriter Brett Bentman’s script has its basis in reality. Sit back and watch the film – and recognize…
In the third episode of DC Universe’s already-cancelled Swamp Thing, Alec/Swamp Thing fights for his soul against the rising flood of bugs (The Rot?) while other characters succumb to their baser desires. It’s disheartening to watch the show knowing that it’s already terminal because the storyline, acting, and special effects are certainly better than the…
June enjoyed building imaginary worlds with her mother (Jennifer Garner), worlds that extended into the real-world where she made amusement-park-like rides out of supplies around the neighborhood. But when her mother gets sick, her father sends her to a camp for math-loving kids. Thing is, June believes her father needs her help, so she runs…
Not another remake! That was my cry of frustration after already getting sucked into the remakes of MacGuyver and SWAT. While the first one will enter 2020 in its fourth season as a midseason replacement, and the third was re-upped in May, both of them seemed to re-invent the expression of their older versions. Magnum…
