WHAT IF, STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE Was Made Today?
This blog post is a little late for May the Fourth, but I can still make it for "THIS IS THE MAY" (Little bit of MANDALORIAN reference there). So in celebration of this "STAR WARS" month, I'm going back to my special What If editorials to do a What If, STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE was made today. Of course when the original STAR WARS was released in theaters in 1977, directed by George Lucas, and it changed the world of cinema forever. This movie influenced dozens of todays filmmakers, and hundreds of today's big block…
BATMAN V SUPERMAN: Dawn of Triumph, Satisfactory, or Mediocrity?
So after decades of audiences waiting, a milestone in comic book superhero film history has been reached. Two of the world's most iconic superheroes, Batman and Superman, finally come face to face in a cinematic feature film, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the follow-up to 2013's Man of Steel, and true start to the DC Cinematic Universe, to rival that of Marvel Studios. We see in this movie, Batman himself, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), actually witnesses the destruction of Metropolis during the final fight scene of Man of Stee…
"STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS", And it Truly Has!
The wait is finally over! The seventh installment in the most beloved and popular movie franchise of all time has finally arrived! Directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes place about 30 years after Return of the Jedi, as remnants of the Empire, now called The First Order rises and fights against what used to be the Rebellion, is now the Resistance. The First Order is led by a new villain named Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) who is strong in the Dark Side of the Force. One of the Stormtroopers of The First Order, Finn (John Boyeg…
Selected Review of the Day: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)
We finally come to the last of the original trilogy, and the final chapter of the Star Wars saga...until now. This is Return of the Jedi, and here we see our story begins with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia (Carrie Fisher), and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) attempting to rescue Han Solo (Harrison Ford) from the evil gangster Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Meanwhile the Empire are in the stage of building a second and more powerful Death Star above the forest moon of Endor, with the supervision of Darth Vader (played by David Prowse,…
