After the unbelievable success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney have decided to resurrect another hallowed franchise. There’s still no work on who will write the screenplay or whether they’ll excuse the fourth movie as a bad dream suffered by Indy during a particularly bad horrendous of malaria. Until we hear more news, such as what involvement George Lucas might have in ...[Read More]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens needed to do two things. First of all, it needed to erase the sour memory of the prequels, at least in the minds of ardent Star Wars fans. Secondly, it needed to prove it could stand with the original trilogy as a fitting sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983). Amazingly, it does both. From the opening crawl, which packs more excitement into it than any of the crawls from...[Read More]
Happy Halloween, dear readers! Whether you’ll be out trick-or-treating, at home giving out candy, going to parties, or something else entirely, I hope you enjoy the holiday. Now, let’s take a look at the official trailer for the biggest movie of the rest of the year, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Premise: The Force Awakens is set approximately thirty years after the events of Return of...[Read More]
It’s here, dear readers. Our long wait is over, because Avengers: Age of Ultron has finally opened stateside. But even more exciting than that, I’m going on vacation! I’ll be out of town for the next couple weeks, and in order to not deprive you of Trailer Trashin’, I’ve written four columns that will make their way to you over the next week or so, covering four of th...[Read More]