David James

Mark Hamill Thinks He Could Have Done The Death Of Han Solo Better

The emotional high point of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is undoubtedly Han Solo’s tragic death at the hands of his son, Kylo Ren. Even though the film fiercely mined nostalgia from the original trilogy for all its worth, this moment showed that the new set of movies is determined to explore bold new territory.

David James May 24, 2017

Lucy Hale Faces Some Awkward Consequences In Life Sentence Trailer

Life Sentence's Stella is tragically not long for this world. She's got cancer and it's terminal. Friends and family flock to her and she decides that she's going to live what remains of her life to the fullest. So, it's time for some crazy impulsive decisions, including marrying a stranger she just met. What does it matter, it's not like she's going to be alive to face the music, right?

David James May 19, 2017

New CBS Show S.W.A.T. Is Grappling With Black Lives Matter

The events of the last few years have cast a new light on traditional police procedurals. For example, CBS' recent TV adaptation of Training Day was roundly slated for offering an unpleasant vision of a rogue cop violently breaking the rules to get the job done and was subsequently excoriated as out of step with the times. By and large, contemporary audiences simply don't see trigger-happy rogue cops as heroes - you need some critique of the consequences of their actions. Thankfully, it looks as if CBS got that memo, as this new trailer for upcoming show S.W.A.T. tackles Black Lives Matter and its surrounding issues head-on.

David James May 19, 2017

Check Out Brie Larson In This Emotional First Trailer For The Glass Castle

Brie Larson has come a long way since 2013's indie critical smash Short Term 12, proceeding to snag a deserved Best Actress Oscar for Room and going toe to toe with the Kong himself in Kong: Skull Island. Short Term 12's director on the other hand, Destin Daniel Cretton, hasn't been quite so prolific, but now he's reunited for Larson for his sophomore feature The Glass Castle, whose first trailer dropped yesterday.

David James May 19, 2017

Watch The Walking Dead Cast Be Brutally Beaten By Negan And Lucille

Nobody said surviving a zombie apocalypse was going to be a walk in the park, but this is just sadistic. The video above, first posted by appropriately named YouTuber 'Wacky Weirdo' in September 2016, compiles all the imagined deaths in Rick's dream sequence from The Walking Dead's season 7 premiere. These all come courtesy of a baseball bat to the noggin, which causes a fountain of blood to cascade from each character's head.

David James May 19, 2017

Comic Books

Marvel

Want To Know How Rogue One’s Cassian And K-2SO Met? Marvel’s Got Your Back

Rogue One's motley cast of traitors, saboteurs, terrorists and criminals made for a fascinating departure from usual Star Wars fare, their all-too-brief on-screen appearances leading fans to speculate about the exciting adventures they'd been on prior to the events of the film. One of the biggest questions was how Cassian and his droid buddy K-2SO came to travel with one another. It's something that many fans have been wondering about and now, a new comic book is going to fill in that particular blank, telling us precisely how Cassian first encountered K-2SO and liberated him from the slavery of Imperial servitude.

David James May 19, 2017

George A. Romero’s Road Of The Dead Is Apparently About NASCAR Racing Zombies

Forget viruses, meteors or rabid monkeys, George A. Romero created the modern zombie. His vision of hordes of rotting, shambling, flesh-hungry corpses has permeated culture to an insane degree. Beginning with 1968's Night of the Living Dead, Romero thrilled and terrified audiences while simultaneously delivering a satisfying social criticism. His apocalyptic perspective reached its zenith in all-time classic Dawn of the Dead, in which he perfectly skewered contemporary consumerism and a load of torsos.

David James May 19, 2017

Jack Meets Salazar In This New Clip From Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

There's an unexpectedly positive buzz around Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The first in the series, Curse of the Black Pearl is a swashbuckling blockbuster classic, instantly making a pop culture icon of Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. Four sequels later and none of them have held a candle to the original, with the last entry, On Stranger Tides being outright terrible (though it still grossed a billion at the global box office). But advance reviews of this upcoming instalment praise it as a return to form, describing it as a 'pleasant surprise.'

David James May 19, 2017