I truly don’t know how many movies are out there about quintuplets, but someone has stepped up to the challenge of making the QUINTESSENTIAL movie about quintuplets, the one that shames all the rest, the One Quintuplets Movie to Rule Them All. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie was made in Japan but arrives today in the US.
The world of Star Fox is quite a trippy place. Spark-edged polygonal ships piloted by talking animals driving through boxy environments and shooting at ominous floating triangles. If you think the experience would benefit from a prog rock soundtrack, so do we. But it took rock arranger Ro Panuganti to make it happen: he presents Arwing Odyssey,
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz just turned 100. We mean his bones did — he obviously didn’t live that long. But his creation will last forever — one of the greatest comic strips of all time, often cited as THE greatest. On the day of his centennial birthday, almost every single comic strip with a syndication deal expressed their love for him in the largest cooperative tribute the newspaper funnies have ever seen.
I don’t know who decided December 1 was going to be a mini D23, but we’re getting new Disney Studio trailers left and right and can barely keep up. The latest, released mere minutes ago, is this never-before-seen first look at Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, the long-anticipated, long-demanded conclusion to the GotG trilogy, as well as probably the last thing James Gunn will do for Marvel.
Disney and Lucasfilm just revealed the title of the fifth and final (?) Indiana Jones film, and it’s an odd one. We have no idea what “The Dial Of Destiny” means other than the possible Maguffin of the picture. My first thought when seeing it was that Indy must be desperate to find soap.
Square Enix has put out what they claim is the FINAL trailer for Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core Reunion. Despite calling itself the “Launch Trailer” the game won’t actually be open for purchase for another two weeks.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are responsible for some of the most innovative and entertaining movies and TV shows of the last 20 years. The Lego Movie was their movie, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was all theirs, and their first creation, Clone High, still rules. They announced their next feature today, which takes their career to its logical conclusion: a movie about a bear hopped up on cocaine.
Maria Bakalova’s meteoric rise to fame is one of the most inspiring stories of recent years. She began her acting career in small independent films in her home country of Bulgaria. Hollywood is not something she ambitioned because it is unrealistic. No Bulgarian born actor had made it big in Hollywood and landed a lead role until she did. It all began with an open online audition for the role of Tutar Sagdiyev, Borat’s daughter.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped off it’s first official trailer. Months ago the teaser made some people uncomfortable with Chris Pratt playing Mario with his natural voice. Charles Martinet had voiced Mario for decades so it is natural for fans being familiar with his iconic interpretation. Martinet may not be reprising his videogame role but he is in this movie with a different role. Illumination Studios and Universal Pictures making this movie is a great irony that goes full circle. Why?
We just had Anime NYC, but this weekend marks yet another convention devoted to Japanese entertainment, Anime Frontier in Fort Worth, TX. Crunchyroll will be there (because how could they not, they own everything) and though they saved most of their big guns for Anime NYC, they’ll still have something to fire in Texas.
Last spring Free League announced they were working on a tabletop RPG set in the gritty, neon, rain-soaked, vaguely Japanese Blade Runner universe. They ran a Kickstarter last spring and proved there was demand, puling in over a million dollars on its first day. But if you missed that campaign, the RPG will be available to purchase for regular folks very soon.
