Category Archives: Prequels and Sequels

Paramount Moving Up Release of ‘Transformers 3’

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Chris Ullrich

If you’ve been counting the weeks, days, hours, minutes and second until the third Transformers movie hits theaters and destroys everything in its path, the amount you have to count has just gotten smaller. That’s right, the release date for everyone’s favorite … Continue reading →

Posted in 3-D, Movies, News, Paramount, Prequels and Sequels | Tagged Josh Duhamel, Ken Jeong, Michael Bay, Paramount, Patrick Dempsey, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Transformers 3, Transformers: The Dark of the Moon | Comments Off

War Movie Mondays: ‘Missing in Action’

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1984 release of director Joseph Zito’s Missing in Action which was the first installment of the franchise. Chuck Norris stars for the first time as Col. James Braddock, who years earlier escaped a POW camp … Continue reading →

Posted in Cult Cinema, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, MGM, Netflix, Prequels and Sequels, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Chuck Norris, David Tress, James Hong, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joseph Zito, Lenore Kasdorf, M. Emmet Walsh, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus | 9 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ‘Missing in Action 2: The Beginning’

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is yet another classic from the world of Golan Globus a.k.a. Cannon Films, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) which was directed by Lance Hool and stars Chuck “White Lightning” Norris as Colonel James Braddock in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cult Cinema, DVD, DVD Reviews, MGM, Netflix, Prequels and Sequels, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Bennett Ohta, Christopher Cary, Chuck Norris, Cosie Costa, David Chung, Joe Michael Terry, John Wesley, Lance Hool, Menahem Golan, Pierre Issot, Professor Toru Tanaka, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Yoram Globus | 1 Comment

First Theatrical Trailer for ‘Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon’ Hits

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Matt Raub

You know you can tell a good trailer when 90% of it is all doom and gloom. That’s just what we’re getting with the first full-length feature trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. If you’re just … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Movies, News, Paramount, Prequels and Sequels, Sci-Fi, Trailers, Video | Tagged Dark of the Moon, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Ken Jeong, Michael Bay, Patrick Dempsey, Peter Cullen, Revenge of the Fallen, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Transformers, Tyrese Gibson | Comments Off

Principal Photography Underway for ‘Piranha 3DD’

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Eric Medina

Gratuitous underwater lesbian makeout sequences, severed limbs flying at the audience in 3D, and comic amounts of blood flying everywhere. These are the elements that made Piranha 3D one of the most successful crowd pleasers last year. Not since Snakes … Continue reading →

Posted in 3-D, Announcements, Cult Cinema, Dimension Films, Movies, Prequels and Sequels | Tagged Chris Zylka, Clu Gulager, Danielle Panabaker, David Koechner, Horror, John Gulager, Movies, Piranha 3D, Piranha 3DD, Roger Corman, Sequel | 1 Comment

Jeremy Renner Takes On ‘The Bourne Legacy’

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Chris Ullrich

It’s nice to see actors go from virtual unknown to multiple Oscar nominee to star of a mega-budget action franchise in just a few years — especially when they’re not in their teens anymore. Fortunately, this time around with actor … Continue reading →

Posted in Casting, Movies, News, Prequels and Sequels | Tagged Casting, Hawkeye, jason bourne, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, Movies, The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, Thor, Tony Gilroy | Comments Off

War Movie Mondays: ‘Gettysburg’

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American War between the states, this week’s pick is the 1993 epic Gettysburg directed by Ronald F. Maxwell and adapted from the novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blu-Ray, Books, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Netflix, New Line, News, Prequels and Sequels, Reviews, TNT, War, War Movie Mondays, Warner Bros | Tagged C. Thomas Howell, Cooper Huckabee, James Lancaster, Jeff Daniels, John Rothman, Joseph Fuqua, Kevin Conway, Martin Sheen, Michael Shaara, Morgan Sheppard, Patrick Gorman, Richard Anderson, Richard Jordan, Ronald F. Maxwell, Sam Elliot, Ted Turner, Tom Berenger, Warren Burton | 3 Comments

Film Review: ‘Scream 4’

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Shannon Hood

Good lord, has it already been over 10 years since the last Scream movie? It’s hard to believe that Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven first turned the horror genre on its head way back in 1996 (Scream 3 came out … Continue reading →