Author: B A Walsh

Things are moving along for the mixed live-action/animated movie Space Jam 2 with the news that Sonequa Martin-Green is in talks to star in the movie alongside LeBron James. Martin-Green is supposedly in talks to star as James’ wife in the film, although it is not known if she would be portraying his real-life wife or an original character. James will be starring as himself and also co-producing. Martin-Green has appeared as Sasha Williams on The Walking Dead (2012-2017) and as First Officer Michael Burnham on the new Star Trek: Discovery series. Warner Bros. and SpringHill Entertainment have announced that…

The Karate Kid, the movie that gave us “wax on, wax off” and the idea of catching flies with chopsticks, returns to the big screen in special showings on March 31 and April 2 in honor of its 35th anniversary. The 1984 film stars Ralph Macchio (as the Karate Kid), Pat Morita as his trainer (Mr. Miyagi), Elisabeth Shue as his girlfriend, and William Zabka as his rival (Johnny). It is rated 88% on Rotten Tomatoes The original spawned two sequels with Macchio and Morita (Karate Kid Part II and III). In The Next Karate Kid, Morita was joined by…

The people from Madison, Alabama must have had our furry friend from Guardians of the Galaxy in mind when they chose the name for their new minor league team: the Rocket City Trash Pandas. The team will play in the Southern League and will serve as a Double-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels. After the team was sold to BallCorps LLC ownership group, a “Name the Team” contest was held to come up with a name for the team when a decision was made to move the Mobile BayBears to its new home in Madison in 2020. A new…

Butts in Space: The Card Game is something a bit different for your next game night. Designed for 2-4 players who will choose to be Bow Butt, Hairy Butt, Classy Butt, or Butt Butt. The premise of the game is that Evil Butt has stolen the Universe’s toilet paper (that’s a lot of TP!) and wrecked your toilet spaceship. Now you must gather the most toilet paper before your toilet ship is repaired. And this isn’t just your common toilet paper, you can get rare or mythical TP as well. But watch out as a Power Fart may blow through…

Goose the cat/Flerken was one furry little scene-stealer in Captain Marvel. The audience was as enamored with her as Samuel L. Jackson’s young Nick Fury. But this kitty also played an important role in the film, swallowing down several bad guys and the Tesseract in the showdown towards the end of the movie. And the reveal that Fury lost his eye, not in some fierce battle or a showdown with a supervillain, but instead to a cat scratch (sorry, Flerken scratch) is pretty funny and unexpected. In an interview with SyFy Wire, Captain Marvel editor Debbie Berman confirms that Goose…

Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is finally getting her own standalone movie. The script is being rewritten by Ned Benson and production will presumably start in June. The idea of it being an R-rated movie had been tossed around. The most recent rumors about the film related to the possible casting of Emma Watson as a female Bond-like character to star alongside Johansson. Now we have another rumor about their potential adversary: Taskmaster. Taskmaster has perfect muscle memory and can master a wide range of abilities just by watching them. His ability has allowed him to become an expert swordsman, martial…

Godzilla: King of the Monsters director Michael Dougherty would like to see a crossover pitting Godzilla vs The Avengers (and frankly, wouldn’t we all?). He teased the idea in a tweet showcasing a comic cover from the time when Marvel had the rights to make a Godzilla comic series back in the 70s. In Godzilla #23 the King of the Monsters takes on the Avengers. Underneath the cover pic the director writes “This movie would make the world a better place.” Yes it would. Sadly, the only place we are likely to see a showdown between the two at the…

David Aguilar of Andorra has been in love with Lego since he was a young child, building cars, motorbikes, planes, etc. out of the bricks. Aguilar was also born missing the forearm on his right arm due to a genetic condition. At age 9 he decided to build a prosthetic arm from Lego; unfortunately, the bricks were not strong enough for what he wanted to accomplish. Nine years later at age 18, he decided to try again by creating the MK I, named in honor of Iron Man and red and yellow in Iron Man’s colors. The MK I started…

As part of Turner Classic Movies 2019 Big Screen Classics, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) will be returning to theaters for special showings March 24 and 27. The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and won 3, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck who played Atticus Finch. In 2003 the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. Mary Badham as Jean Louis “Scout” Finch, Atticus’ daughter, was nominated for a Best-Supporting Actress Oscar and at the time was the youngest nominee in that category. The movie was also the big screen debut…

Fans have been poring over the latest Endgame trailer since it was released, looking for clues to support their theories or to spark new ones. The trailer had a whopping 268 million views in the first 24 hours. While it doesn’t really seem to show much of anything, just some scenes out of context, theories and questions have emerged: Are those white uniforms quantum realm suits? Is that Kate Bishop with Hawkeye? What’s that thing Ant-Man has? As if it wasn’t difficult enough to try and piece anything together from the trailer, now comes word that the Russo brothers have…