Is James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Still in the rotation of things everybody is forced to read ...
A big-ish rumor (which I joked around about last week) coming out of the "Batman vs. Superman" SDCC announcement was that the ...
"FLASH" To Become Terrible CW Show Before Dour, Portentous 'Gritty' Movie
This is being reported as a HUGE FUCKING DEAL in the industry because Harvey Weinstein and Disney are speaking again, except all the people ...
Disney and The Weinsteins Set "ARTEMIS FOWL" Production
Below, an extended music video for Biting Elbows' "Bad Motherfucker." The premise: "What if a 'Transporter' sequ...
Would You Watch 90 Minutes of This?
Hey! Have you by chance been in one of those hypersleep pods from "Prometheus" since around 1998 or so and thus might still find j...
Here's Another Awful-Looking Thing We Can Blame Kevin Smith For...
Good enough. Intermission: "World's Finest." The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : The Wolverine
Escape to The Movies: "The Wolverine"
Ryan Coogler is having the dream year of an indie filmmaker. His devastating debut, "Fruitvale Station" was already racking up ac...
"Fruitvale Station" Director to Write/Direct Seventh "Rocky" Installment. For Real.
A friend and colleague of mine recently offered "South Korea!" as a one-word response to all that was right in modern cinema. No...
Maybe Everything Is Going To Be Okay, After All...
Title says it all, really. The Escapist : The Big Picture : San Diego Comic-Con 2013
Big Picture: "San Diego Comic-Con 2013"
Fox Television gave Seth MacFarlane a big leeway for "whatever he wanted to do" in exchange for keeping ratings-juggernaut ...
From The Creator of "Family Guy" And The Director of The Hayden Planetarium. No, Really.
I'm on the record with not being in love with what we were being told was Captain America's new threads for "Captain America: T...
What IS Going On With Captain America's "New" Uniform?
UPDATE I: Zack Snyder takes the stage at SDCC, officially announces Batman joining "Man of Steel" sequel. Says will be "info...
(UPDATED!) WB Sets "Superman/Batman" or 2015, "Flash" and "Justice League" to Follow
For a minute there, it looked like the positive buzz on "Kick-Ass 2" - a sequel I'm still kind of amazed we got, given that t...
"Kick-Ass 2" STILL Looks Promising
You could do a lot worse. Intermission: "The New Math" The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Red 2
Escape to The Movies: "Red 2"
"Today we are CANCELING APARTHEID!!!"
BREAKING: Stacker Pentecost to be only SECOND Most Badass Idris Elba performance of 2013
Dust off both of your "best" jokes about which series has overstayed it's welcome by longer. EW is reporting that The Simps...
Giggity Giggity Doh!
Okay, I'm starting to get excited. Not TOO excited, mainly because the director is still Gareth Edwards and I really, really, really, RE...
First "GODZILLA" Teaser Poster
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I can now confirm that I will be appearing at COMICAZI in Somerville Massachusetts ( 407 Highland Ave Somerville MA ...
MOVIEBOB BOOK SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT
Every Movie Awards Season needs at least one "controversial" current-events film that receives reams of breathless coverage in th...
"The Fifth Estate"
"Huh. That's a way more impressive voice-cast than you'd expect for "Call of Duty - Black Ops III: Man, That Harness Thing...
All You Need Is A Less Interesting Title
Pretty-much what you'd expect... The Escapist : The Big Picture : The Lone Ranger : What Happened?
Big Picture: "The Lone Ranger - What Happened?"
"Dear Mr. Watterson" - which was just picked up for distribution by Gravitas Ventures - is not, unfortunately, a "Calvin ...
Probably as close as we're going to get...
As we inch ever closer to Oscar Season, here's the first trailer for "Shame" director Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years A...
"12 Years A Slave"
George Zimmerman, found not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin. Take it away, Bugs... Hypothetically speaking... exactly how bad do t...
System Failure
The Samurai/Cowboy remake dance hasn't been done for awhile, mostly because the U.S. stopped making westerns with any real frequency. Bu...
Time To Revise Your "Most-Anticipated" List
On paper, Fox's desire to hold onto the "X-Men" license no matter how iffy it's boxoffice prospects get makes a certain a...
"X-Force" Movie Happening For Some Reason
I have it on good authority that "I Declare War" is awesome. The premise, at least, is head-slappingly brilliant in that "W...
Sticks And Stones
Remember: This weekend is your chance to support original filmmaking at theaters. ( "Intermission" is down right now for unkno...
Escape to The Movies: "PACIFIC RIM"
Below, the trailer for "Saving Mr. Banks," the "making of 'Mary Poppins" movie with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and ...
Bank On It
"Seventh Son" is apparently an adaptation of yet another YA Fantasy franchise I've never once heard anyone talk about, and lo...
"Seventh Son" Trailer
Via Bleeding Cool Tom Hanks is Walt Disney. Emma Thompson is "Mary Poppins" creator P.L. Travers. The movie is "Saving Mr. Ba...
"And over there, we're building Oscar Land"
Here's the first (red-band) trailer for Spike Lee's version of "Oldboy," which does a decent enough job of laying out the...
Stop. Hammer Time.
PfffffFFFFFF... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ahem... ...HEH. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE HA HA! Laughter is not technically a comment.
Presented Without Comment
Let's support new things. Incidentally, as of recording this I had not yet seen "Pacific Rim." I now have. Review will be up a...
Big Picture: "The New Originals"
via Jezebel Here's the interesting-looking trailer for "Wadjda," notable for being the first full-length movie ever directe...
Girl On A Bike
Yeah, it'll be fun to see "classic" lets-pretend-this-is-actually-scary Chucky again; but I think I'll end up in the minor...
Chucky Lives!
Y'know, guys? I understand we're all very, very fond of our tablets and phones and such and there's an innate tragic irony to a ...
The Official Canonizing of Steve Jobs Begins
Were you feeling, perhaps, that the "Earth = Third World, Space-Station = America" border-control/immigration/class-uprising alleg...
"The Engine is Sacred!"
Worse than you've heard. Intermission looks ahead to Fall. The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : The Lone Ranger
Escape to The Movies: "The Lone Ranger"
I don't necessarily believe that all things in the world have a purpose - a reason that they come into existence. But, if I did, I would...
Sharks. Tornado. "Sharknado."
Depressingly (both in content and because I haaaaaaate "tracking numbers" bullshit being part of the film discussion, but such is...
One More "Pacific Rim" Trailer
...you know the rest. BTW, did you buy my book? Because you can do that now :) The Escapist : The Big Picture : With Great Power
Big Picture: "With Great Power"
You can now buy you're very own copy (in print or ebook) of "SUPER MARIO BROS 3: BRICK BY BRICK" from Fangamer. So, please, ...
