All Alex wants for Christmas is for his parents to stop fighting. He asks them for a robot hoping that it will bring his family together instead it tears them apart, literally. This isn’t your typical killer robot story. It gets you to sympathize with the machine but not by humanizing it, rather by dehumanizing the human. At first Blinky acts as a surrogate parent, but the boy quickly grows

Last Halloween LAIKA, the animation studio behind Coraline, introduced us to their newest creepy kid ParaNorman with a spine tingling trailer set to the psychedelic song “Season of the Witch” by Donovan. In the new family friendly, but less groovy, trailer we learn more about Norman’s paranormal ability to see dead people including his Grandmother and other not-so-friendly ghosts. ParaNormal Release Date: August 17, 2012 Trailers below

Unwilling to leave good enough alone, George Lucas has once again “upgraded” Return of the Jedi for the Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (Episodes IV – VI) [Blu-ray] release due out Sept 16th. In the original, Darth Vader watched silently as the Emperor electrocute his son. However, in the new version he envokes Hayden Christensen and whines “Nooo…” Fans haven’t been this upset since the exorcizing of Sebastian Shaw’s ghost.

Memorial Day is supposed to be a time to remember our fallen service members but like most holidays it’s been commercialized, literally. A new trailer for the movie adaptation of the f-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-l hero Thor recommends Americans skip those boring Memorial services and “Spend this Memorial Day weekend with a real hero.” (video bottom) Are they suggesting soldiers aren’t real heroes? I’ve contacted Marvel comics and Viacom, the parent company of

That a single person can change history is a very dangerous idea so it’s not surprising that China is anti-time travel. The General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television is banning all time travel stories, calling them “disrespectful to history.” Chinahush.com translated the original story: “The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable. Many stories are

Realizing his own mortality, Lex Luthor decides it’s time to get serious about killing Superman. Ironically, he uses the very source of Superman’s powers to do it, exposing him to an overdose of solar radiation. Now literally exploding with power, Superman faces some us his greatest challenges yet as he tries to get his final affairs in order. Due to time constraints, the movie adaptation understandably cuts out most of

When the Griffin house loses power (yet again) the characters reluctantly perform another Star Wars parody. The opening crawl warns you to “lower your expectations” explaining that they “ran out of gas” after the first two movies but Fox forced them to make another. It’s not just self-deprecating humor, it’s also a subtle dig at Star Wars Episode VI itself. The rest of the movie isn’t so subtle. No one

Jackass 3D has broken all kinds of  records, not just for the biggest October opening, but also for being the first movie I’ve seen in the theater since Deep Blue Sea (1999) and the first 3D movie that didn’t need red and blue glasses. If ever there was a movie made for 3D, it’s Jackass. However, there’s a great introduction by the original jackasses, Beavis and Butthead, that masterfully lowers

Universal has pulled the trailer for The Dilemma after CNN’s Anderson Cooper went on The Ellen Degeneres Show to complained of it’s use of the word gay. “There was a preview of a movie, and in it, the actor said, ‘That’s so gay,’ and I was shocked that not only that they put it in the movie, but that they put that in the preview. They thought that it was

In a dystopic future where Obamacare didn’t pass, the United States has set up a seniors game preserve (and you thought death panels sounded bad) but when two friends learn of a magical land with free health care, they plan escape across the border. The Closer You Get To Canada is a black comedy that examines themes of patriotism, state security, and personal liberties. It premieres at this year’s Toronto

The Asylum, the film studio famous for cashing in on others’ success with knockbusters like Transmorphers and Snakes on a Train, embarks on destroying the Titanic again. This time nobody’s safe from icebergs not ships, submarines, airplanes, or even surfers! The movie opens with a man glacier surfing, a (real) sport where surfers wait for a piece of ice to break off a glacier and fall into the ocean then

Director Joe Johnston says Captain AMERICA won’t be a “jingoistic American flag-waver” in the upcoming movie: Captain America: The First Avenger. “He’s just a good person. We make a point of that in the script: Don’t change who you are once you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier; you have to stay who you are inside, that’s really what’s important more than your strength and everything.” Johnston seems to be

From the people that brought you the Scary Movie franchise comes Vampires Suck, a parody of the Twilight films. And while there’s a lot of source material to lampoon, you don’t necessarily need to have seen it all to get high-brow jokes such as vampires like to eat Count Chocula cereal. Vampires Suck covers the first two Twilight films but also manages to S-U-B-T-L-Y reference the third despite it not

Live-action and animated characters rarely work well together but I gotta admit the Smurfs look great in 3D! They have a real grittiness to them but they’re as cute as ever. I could just eat them up! And unlike similar hybrid moves like Garfield, it’s not only acceptable if the Smurfs look like they don’t belong in this world, it’s expected. I was also skeptical of the premise that Gargamel

The monster in this new IFC film isn’t a human with a lot of legs, it’s a lot creepier than that. A German surgeon is obsessed with creating what he calls the Human Centipede by connecting his subjects via their gastric system. And according to the movie’s tagline it’s “100% medically accurate.” Human Centipede will only have a limited release in theaters (April 30), but will also be available on