Happy Easter!

I hope you all have an Eggcellent weekend!

It's us or them

The first full trailer for the new season of Westworld was released today...



The first season was really good and it appears that things are just going to get weirder and weirder.

I'm okay with that.

The new season premieres on HBO on Sunday April 22nd.

Where have you been?

The second season of Legion on FX begins next week and, judging from this trailer, it's looking as trippy and awesome as the first season.



The first new episode airs next Tuesday April 3rd.

Enjoyable.

Sunshine on my shoulders

I'm heading out of town to warmer weather in the morning for a few days. I hope you all have a great week/weekend!

Still Jonesing

Well, I guess it's time to thaw out Harrison Ford again for another Indiana Jones movie...

Director Steven Spielberg revealed at the Empire Awards last night that Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones 5 filming will begin in the UK in April 2019! 

“It’s always worth the trip when I get to work with this deep bench of talent coming out of the UK. The actors, and the crew, the chippies, the sparks, the drivers — everybody who has helped me make my movies here, and will continue helping me make my movies here when I come back in April 2019 to make the fifth Indiana Jones movie right here,” he said. 

Set for a July 20, 2020 release date, the film will again see Spielberg teaming up with Harrison Ford, who is reprising his iconic role, and franchise producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshal. The screenplay is written by David Koepp.

I don't know that the world needs another one of these movies. The last one wasn't very good at all and, honestly, Harrison Ford is seventy-five years old and probably shouldn't be running around any jungle or desert without a nurse's aide.

However, maybe they'll introduce Chris Pratt into the series to take over the role and let Harrison ride off into the sunset or straight into Shady Pines.

Whichever is more dramatic.

Just like that

The final Avengers: Infinity War trailer was released today...



It's looking very ominous and I have a feeling that a few of the regular characters we know and love might not make it out of this film alive.

I'm SO there!

The movie opens on April 27th.

Pop goes the culture

A new trailer for Ready Player One was released today...






I don't know much about the story, other than it's a dystopia where people escape into a virtual world and are surrounded by pretty much every Pop Culture character and icon that licensing (and Steven Spielberg) was able to buy and cram into the visuals somewhere along the way.

And, honestly, that may be enough for me.



Plus, I enjoy the variety of retro posters they created for the film.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie when it opens on March 29th.

Stephen Hawking

Very sad news today...

Stephen Hawking, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global audiences in the millions, has died aged 76. 

For fellow scientists and loved ones, it was Hawking’s intuition and wicked sense of humour that marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that, coupled with his illness, came to symbolise the unbounded possibilities of the human mind.

Hawking was driven to Wagner when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21. Doctors expected him to live for only two more years. But Hawking had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly than usual. He survived for more than half a century.

Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diagnosis of his terminal disease, and witnessing the death from leukaemia of a boy he knew in hospital, ignited a fresh sense of purpose. “Although there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research,” he once said. 



Embarking on his career in earnest, he declared: “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” Hawking’s run of radical discoveries led to his election in 1974 to the Royal Society at the young age of 32. Five years later, he became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, arguably Britain’s most distinguished chair, and a post formerly held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Paul Dirac, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics.

But it was A Brief History of Time that rocketed Hawking to stardom. Published for the first time in 1988, the title made the Guinness Book of Records after it stayed on the Sunday Times bestsellers list for an unprecedented 237 weeks. It sold 10m copies and was translated into 40 different languages. Nevertheless, wags called it the greatest unread book in history. 

“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,” he said. “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” 

He spoke also of death, an eventuality that sat on a more distant horizon than doctors thought. “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die,” he said. “I have so much I want to do first.” What astounded those around him was how much he did achieve. 



He lectured at the White House during the Clinton administration – his oblique references to the Monica Lewinsky episode were evidently lost on those who screened his speech – and returned in from Barack Obama. His life was played out in biographies and documentaries, most recently , in which Eddie Redmayne played him. He appeared on The Simpsons and . He delivered gorgeous put-downs on . “What do Sheldon Cooper and a black hole have in common?” Hawking asked the fictional Caltech physicist whose IQ comfortably outstrips his social skills. After a pause, the answer came: “They both suck.” 

He leaves his three children, from his first marriage to Jane Wilde, and three grandchildren.

He definitely lived an extraordinary life under the most difficult conditions and found a way to make a lasting impact on the world in a way that very few people could ever imagine to achieve over several lifetimes.

He will be missed.

Pick a side

The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was released today...



So far, it's looking pretty good...very Harry Pottery, which is a good thing.

I enjoy this world and am looking forward to the film opening on November 16th.

True Story

Wiiging out!

It's an interesting choice to have Kristen Wiig playing the main villain, Cheetah, in the next Wonder Woman movie.

I loved the first movie and I do enjoy Kristen Wiig in just about everything, so I'm hopeful that she'll be able to play a convincing bad gal without it being campy/cheesy.

I trust Patty Jenkin's taste, so let's get this movie started!

Infinite covers

Entertainment Weekly is releasing fifteen unique covers for its upcoming focus on Avengers: Infinity War, which features over twenty-two superheroes from the Marvel Universe...















You can see all of the covers here.

Enjoyable.

Avengers: Infinity War opens on April 27th.

Tully

A new trailer for the upcoming Charlize Theron movie, Tully, was released today...



This definitely looks like something I might ugly-cry through, so I should probably start pre-planning now (stock up on ice cream, Sun Chips, and set aside an old long-sleeved sweatshirt), so that I'm fully prepared when it opens on April 20th.

Bring. It.

Danger, indeed

The first full trailer for the Netflix reimagining of Lost In Space was released today...

This definitely gives us a better, overall, look and feel of the show. They are clearly focusing on a more realistic/darker version of the original series (no giant carrot people in sight). 

Plus, Parker Posey playing Doctor Smith...enjoyable. 

So far, I'm fairly impressed and looking forward to watching the first season when it premieres on April 13th.

She's baaaack

The first teaser trailer for Mary Poppins Returns was released last night during the Oscars...



We don't get to see too much of Mary just yet, but it looks like the filmmakers are trying to capture the look and feel of the original movie, so that's encouraging.

The movie flies into theaters on Christmas Day.

Yes, please

I want to go to there.

Hollywood shuffle

It was announced today that the release date for Avengers: Infinity War has been moved up a week...

We’ve just hit March, and a date change for Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War means the sequel is officially less than two months away. The pic’s release has been moved up a week to April 27.

Bring. It.