Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
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Trailer for The Wolverine
The first trailer has arrived for The Wolverine. Taking place after the events of X-Men 3 the film brings back Hugh Jackman to the role and is directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, Knight and Day). The Wolverine is slated to release on July 26. Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death ...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of March 26
Lincoln Capturing the danger and excitement of political intrigue, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln chronicles the final four months in the life of the man regarded as America's greatest President. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, the untold story focuses on a defining moment in Abraham Lincoln's life - as commander-in-chief of a country in chaos; as a husband and father afraid of losing his own son to the war; and as a man guided by his conscience to end slavery. With the Civil War n...
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Review: Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen is the first of two films this year that has a plot centered on the White House being assaulted. Purely set up as an all-out action film it succeeds by setting a chaotic and dire stage and never letting off the gas. It's more Die Hard than A Good Day to Die Hard was. Gerard Butler stars as a former Secret Service agent who finds himself in the midst of the takeover and as the only person in a position to put an end to it. A rogue North Korean faction takes control of th...
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HBO Considering Game of Thrones Prequel
In a recent interview with IGN George R.R. Martin, writer of The Song of Ice and Fire series which has been turned into the Game of Thrones for television, discussed the possibility of a prequel. Martin has a deal with HBO that will have him creating other shows and this might be one of them. Well, I have been writing for a number of years a series of novellas set in the same world, the world of Westeros, but a hundred years earlier, about two characters called Dunk and Egg. And I published...
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Trailer for Turbo
A theatrical trailer for Dreamworks Animation's Turbo has arrived. The film features the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti and Maya Rudolph and a TV series to be available through Netflix is also coming. Turbo is slated to release on July 17. From the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Turbo is a high-velocity 3D comedy about an underdog snail who kicks into overdrive when he miraculously attains the power of super-speed. But after making fast friends with a crew of streetwi...
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New Despicable Me 2 Trailer
A second theatrical trailer has arrived for the sequel to the hit 2010 animated film Despicable Me. The voice talent including Steve Carell and Miranda Cosgrove returns. Despicable Me 2 is slated to release on July 3. Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide blockbuster, Despicable Me, delighted audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In Summer 2013, get ready for m...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of March 19
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and...
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Dave Bautista Cast in Guardians of the Galaxy
The Guardians of the Galaxy casting for Drax the Destroyer, a human was killed along with his family by Thanos (the big bad for The Avengers 2) only to be resurrected by having his spirit placed in a powerful body (seen far left in the above concept image), is now official. Dave Bautista - the former WWE wrestler who has transitioned to acting with roles in films like The Man With the Iron Fists and the upcoming Riddick - is taking on the part. Last month news broke that Ja...
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