In short: Yes…even though it left me shocked and disturbed. Gone Girl is one of those movies that I was on the fence about. I was not that familiar with Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck’s acting style is “meh” at best, seeing Tyler Perry onscreen solicits a nigh-automatic (negative) reflex from my body, and I had … Continue reading
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Fandango Just Put Together the Best Dystopian Mashup Trailer Ever
It has barely been a month since Dana Schwartz’s (a Chicago writer and comedian) Twitter account–@DystopianYA–gained some well-earned attention after Schwartz started humorously pointing out all the cliché and tired trappings of YA fiction (with a dystopian twist). When questioned about why she started account, she had this to say: “I loved dystopian stories as … Continue reading
Art Imitating Life: The U.S. Military is Catching Fire
The recent cuts to veteran pensions, military pay, and personnel reduction initiatives (due to sequestration), have sparked an unexpected movement in the American armed forces. This chain of events has been marked as: The Air Force Hunger Games. Some also like to call it, The Air Force retention games. After the announcement of these reduction … Continue reading
THE TRAILER HAS DROPPED: ‘The Maze Runner’; New Posters Hit The Web
Coming off of 576869708342 panels from this past weekend’s Comic-Con, Fox recently rolled out their newest trailer for their upcoming film The Maze Runner. The new trailer features some sweet looks at a handful of dangers within the titular maze and etc. Here’s the synopsis according to Screen Crush: “The story finds a young boy … Continue reading
Rise of the Urban Fantasy Author: Dennis R. Upkins
Author and activist, Dennis R. Upkins was born and raised in Nashville, but calls Atlanta home. He calls himself “a lifelong geek, and a hopeless comic book addict”, and for the short time I’ve known him, I know this to be true and he takes his interest and craft very seriously. Dennis received an All Posts academic scholarship … Continue reading
‘Game of Thrones’ Actress Rose Leslie to Star Opposite Vin Diesel in ‘The Last Witch Hunter’
Before I begin, every time I hear news of Vin Diesel doing something awesome (obviously, it is automatically going to be awesome), I am inclined to do this: Bringing it back to the story at hand, Rose Leslie, who is famous for playing Ygritte on Game of Thrones, recently signed on to play a witch … Continue reading
Jack Black in Talks to Star in Adaption of ‘Goosebumps’
I don’t hate Jack Black or anything, but here’s my reaction to that: But seriously. What the actual f*ck? Moving on from my intial disbelief, The Wrap recently reported that Jack Black is currently in negotions to star in the film adaptaion of the timeless scary story franchise Goosebumps. A Goosebumps film sounds good on … Continue reading