This weekend Fast and Furious 6, the latest high-octane installment of the car crazy franchise, hit screens. Along with it will come squealing tires, revving engines and some of cinema’s wildest car chases. The auto chase is a movie staple, … Continue Reading
On television Mister Spock was the USS Enterprise’s first officer — a half human, half Vulcan character prone to saying things like, “It seems logical, Captain,” and applying the Vulcan nerve pinch sleeper hold. The character, first brought to life … Continue Reading
John Cho is best known for playing Harold Lee, the investment banker and pothead from the Harold & Kumar movies. Not exactly the kind of guy you want behind the wheel, but in Star Trek Into Darkness he is Sulu, … Continue Reading
For someone who became famous playing Gandhi, one of the 20th century’s great pacifists, Ben Kingsley has certainly played his share of villains. His latest character, The Mandarin in Iron Man 3, is one of the great comic book baddies. … Continue Reading
Will Smith is the world’s biggest movie star. Nobody can touch him. Cruise jumped the couch, Clooney’s movies don’t make any money and Hanks appears to be in semi-retirement. Only Johnny Depp comes close and he is a distant second. … Continue Reading
“I honestly don’t think my career will get any better than this,” says Ken Jeong. “I think I’ve peaked.” Jeong returns in The Hangover Part III as Mr. Chow, the violent gangster with a heart of gold. Or at least … Continue Reading
“He had an ice cream truck and kept bodies in the truck. There are plenty of little kids out there who bought ice cream and that ice cream was freezing next to a corpse.” That gruesome image is courtesy of … Continue Reading
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is one of the best-known novels of the 1900s. Dubbed one of the two best books of the last century by The Modern Library, these days Gatsby may be more familiar as the movie … Continue Reading
In The Big Wedding, a long-divorced couple, played by Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton, pretend to be happily married at their adopted son’s wedding for the benefit of his biological mother. Hijinks ensue, but like all movies with the … Continue Reading
It seems 2013 is the year Hollywood took Stephen Hawking, the world’s leading theoretical physicist, to heart. “The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet,” he says, suggesting that if we don’t change … Continue Reading
