Every year we see a lot of anticipation about upcoming films and a lot of predictions about which ones will ultimately win at the box office. Will it be a sequel in 2015? The Magic 8 Ball says Signs Point To Yes. 2015 has already seen an interesting mix of films people are willing to pay to see. According to Wikipedia, the early out of the gate winners are 5o Shades of Grey and Cinderella. That would be a fun double feature. But 50 Shades current number of $563,862,000 wouldn’t land it the Top Ten Grossing films from 2014. The summer…
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Tron Legacy
I’m one of those rare people that actually liked Disney’s Tron. It was an old fashioned science fiction story with an old fashioned moral of honesty is the best policy and doing bad will catch up with you in the end. I also loved that whole CGI world combined with black and white photography and pen strips of neon color. I was really excited a couple of ComiCons again when they showed that teaser trailer and then it was leaked and it looked really good. I was a bit less excited when the exact same trailer was released last year. …
Ricardo Montaban and Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montaban were two of my favorite actors when I was young. Neither one was exactly a superstar, but both of them starred in movies and TV shows that I loved. They have both died in the past few days. Patrick McGoohan was 80. He seems to have spent his entire career frowning and making the occasional cryptic comment. I love The Prisioner, an other worldly TV show Patrick McGoohan created and starred in about a secret agent that is kidnapped and renamed Number 6. He is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a…