Author: Maurice Mitchell

The American Revolutionary War was pretty thrilling, but how much more awesome would it have been with light sabers? Lucas, dump the 3-D Star Wars prequels and start making Revolutionary War movies! How much more cool would the revolutionary war have been with light sabers? What other time period would have been awesome with light sabers? [Image Source: Pics and Gifs]

On this day, November 22, 1968, television’s first inter-racial kiss appeared on Star Trek and opened the door to racial equality for generations. In the Star Trek episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” the crew is forced to do the bidding of “gods” who force Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) to kiss. One critic said, “The underlying message was, ‘If I have to kiss you to save my ship and crew, by God, I’ll do it.'” The moment was so ground-breaking the studio shot two versions of the scene: One with them kissing and one without in case they changed…

William Shatner said that Star Trek is better than Star Wars. Carrie Fisher responded via YouTube. Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, made headlines by saying “Star Trek had relationships, conflict among the relationships, stories that involved humanity and philosophical questions…Star Wars was special effects. It was ILM at it’s best”. He also claimed Lucas ripped off from Roddenberry. Shanter is always mouthing off to get attention, so this is no big deal. However, Bill made a colossal mistake saying, “Princess Leia, as beautiful as she was and as wonderful an actress as she is can’t compare to the marvelous heroines we…

My wife and I signed up for “Disney Movie Club” this weekend. While browsing through the list of films, I was struck by how many “un-Disney” Disney films there are in the catalogue. You know, movies that you don’t think of as fitting into the traditional Disney style. All great films though. So, I decided to make a short list of films that you wouldn’t think of as Disney films. Some of these are produced by Touchstone, which is basically Walt Disney Pictures under another name. 1. The Black Hole (1979) This film still haunts me. Directed by Gary Nelson…

Germain Lussier at SlashFilm reports that Fandango now offers “mobile tickets” you can purchase to avoid movie lines and they’re everywhere but Arizona! Many airlines have already done away with paper tickets and now one of the largest sellers of movie tickets is finally making the digital leap. After almost two years of development and smaller test runs, Fandango‘s Mobile Ticket initiative begins its major roll out this weekend at select Regal Cinemas with the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. People who buy tickets online (not just for Twilight, for any movie) can have a message…

Marvel has released a new set of promotional character posters for the 2012 film The Avengers and we breakdown the bizarre images along with a conspicuous rump in full view. It’s kind of a weird design since they decided to have each character jammed into the Avengers logo. These will probably be broken up into eight movie posters for the theaters. Here’s the breakdown: 1. Captain America – They got in his shield so that’s cool, but they covered his face! 2. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) – This is a good one. Mysterious and bold. He has a green tint to…

When I heard they were cutting Doctor Who down to a half season I couldn’t imagine why. Turns out their ditching the whole show to make a movie. This makes me pretty mad. David Yates is set to direct according to Variety. “We’re looking at writers now.” He said, “We’re going to spend two to three years to get it right. It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.” The show, about a time-and-space-traveling British dude, is the most successful science-fiction show ever running from 1963 to 1989, and 2005 to present. Why in the world would they…

Here are seven fascinating things you may not know about Captain America: The First Avenger. Millions have seen the blockbuster film Captain America, but there are still new things to learn. While I’ve seen it a bunch of times, did you know that Hayley Atwell grabbed some breast in the film? Captain America rode a motorcycle with a fitting name. What was it? Was Red Skull’s accent intentionally mad? Why wasn’t co-creator Joe Simon in the film? Read on to learn seven fascinating facts about Captain America: The First Avenger 1. Rogers Really DID Use a Body Double Many, including IMDb…

When we were nominated for the Movie 411 awards this month we started a contest and here are the winners We decided to reward our awesome Google Followers with a contest. Thanks for following us. We appreciate it. Here are the three winners chosen at random from our followers. 1. Storm Safety Blog 2. Chris 3. ♥MJ Congratulations! So, what can you do with five dollars? You can pay for shipping for an item or gift. You can also choose from e-books or one of Amazon’s many “Instant Video” titles under $5. There are a bunch of movies under five, plus…

Here’s our profile of the lovely and talented Carrie Fisher. The woman that became a Princess to millions around the world without ever wearing a crown. Carrie Fisher was born October 21, 1956 to singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Based on her family history, it was assumed she’d go into show business. Her first big role was in 1977 when she starred as Princess Leia Organa in George Lucas’ science fiction film Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) opposite Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. Her hairstyle from the first film, known as the “Cinnamon…

No one wants to die, but if I can just hang around till November 29th, I can watch the superhero themed “Victoria Secret’s” show. Then I’ll go with a smile. Superheroes and lingerie models. Too great tastes that go great together. To balance it out, here’s a picture of my wife’s favorite superhero, Thor, with his shirt off.Now for this week’s link love.Hollywood Spy’s Dez has a trailer for the new film Snow White and the Huntsman and it looks…interesting. Some of it looks cool. Like Chris Hemsworth. Other parts just look bizarre. Like the queen floating in a milk bath.…

Meet the greatest space travelers ever. They’re soldiers, construction workers, scientists and children. Here is the final of a five part series counting down the 100 greatest space travelers of all-time. Everyone has dreamed of going into space. While most of us will never get there hundreds of movies, television shows and books show people traveling into space. We compiled a list of the ones we consider the top 100 space travelers of all-time. You can read the criteria we used here. It’s been a week long series that has come to the end. You can read the previous entries…

Meet the greatest space travelers ever. They’re soldiers, construction workers, scientists and children. Here is the third in a five part series counting down the 100 greatest space travelers of all-time. Everyone has dreamed of going into space. While most of us will never get there hundreds of movies, television shows and books show people traveling into space. We compiled a list of the ones we consider the top 100 space travelers of all-time. You can read the criteria we used here. Previous: #100-81 #80-61 #60-41 40. William “Hawk” Hawkins, Col. (Tommy Lee Jones) Space Cowboys (2000) Tommy Lee Jones is…

Meet the greatest space travelers ever. They’re soldiers, construction workers, scientists and children. Here is the third in a five part series counting down the 100 greatest space travelers of all-time. Everyone has dreamed of going into space. While most of us will never get there hundreds of movies, television shows and books show people traveling into space. We compiled a list of the ones we consider the top 100 space travelers of all-time. You can read the criteria we used here. Previous: #100-81 #80-61 The List 60. Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery) Star Trek: Enterprise Ensign Mayweather is a human, but…

In an interview with the “Wall Street Journal” Ridley Scott says he’s working on a follow up to his classic film Blade Runner and it’s “liable to be a sequel.” But, will it be in 3-D? One thing to consider is that he just finished his latest movie Prometheus in 3-D. While talking about filming at the San Diego Comic-Con he said “I’ll never work without 3-D again, even for small dialogue scenes.” He feels the depth of field makes for a richer experience. This is the way I felt after watching Avatar and the way I didn’t feel watching Tron. If it’s done right, the…

Meet the greatest space travelers ever. They’re soldiers, construction workers, scientists and children. Here is the second of a five part series counting down the 100 greatest space travelers of all-time. Everyone has dreamed of going into space. While most of us will never get there hundreds of movies, television shows and books show people traveling into space. We compiled a list of the ones we consider the top 100 space travelers of all-time. You can read the criteria we used here. Previous #100-81 Next #60-41 The List 80. Capt. Shane Vansen (Kristen Cloke) Space: Above and Beyond When Vansen was…

Meet the greatest space travelers ever. They’re soldiers, construction workers, scientists and children. Here is the first of a five part series of blog posts counting down the 100 greatest space travelers of all-time. Everyone has dreamed of going into space. While most of us will never get there hundreds of movies, television shows and books show people traveling into space. We compiled a list of the ones we consider the top 100 space travelers of all-time. We had to make up some rules for the list so here they are. First, these are fictional astronauts. It’s not fair to compare…

Every Friday we’re going to feature some news from our friends in the blogspot community. Here’s this week’s news you’ll want to use. Catch the CassaFire Alex is having a launch party for his new book CassaFire, the sequel to CassaStar. Make sure you sign up so you can win one of five copies! We’re going to start giving out blog awards so the first one goes to Alex. He has over 1000 followers through his sheer Ninja magnetism and hard work in the blogger community. I’m making him the first recipient of the “Pied Piper Coolest Followers” award! Here…

Battlestar Galactica Reboot Not Going To “Frak It Up” Bryan Singer’s long rumored reboot film of the 1978 television show Battlestar Galactica is ramping up with a new writer. John Orloff, who also wrote the Shakespeare film Anonymous, said, “I have wanted to write this movie since I was 12 year old and [I] built a Galactica model from scratch out of balsa wood, cardboard, old model parts and LEDs. I love BSG, and I would pass on the job rather than frak it up.” I dunno. The television series pretty much did everything you could do with the concept,…

The Matrix (1999) was a cinematic marvel, but thanks to the sequels it’s a huge mess and I’ll explain why. When a movie does well studios always push for a sequel. I can understand how much pressure the Wachowski’s were under. Their first movie, Bound, was critically acclaimed but not exactly a block-busters. Suddenly, men with suits are shoveling money at them and people were begging for more of this amazing film. So, the decided to go for it and make a trilogy. They expanded on ideas they had from the first film and came up with a storyline, plot and new…

In case you missed them, here are the most popular posts from last month. Everything from Star Wars lists to Batman. 10. Want To See the Full List of Changes to the ‘Star Wars’ Films? [List] This infographic lists all the changes to Star Wars Lucas has made going back to the 1970s. 9. 13 Frequently Asked Questions About ‘The Avengers’ Trailer Answered [Superheroes] If you saw the new Avengers trailer, but still don’t understand what’s going on then check this post out. 8. 10 Best Life-Size Star Wars Replicas Readers can’t get enough of life-size speeder bikes. 7. The ‘Star…

***This contest is now closed *** We’ve been nominated by our buddy Alex J. Cavanaugh for the Movie411 awards and to celebrate we’re giving away three $5 Amazon gift cards!Movie 411 has nominated us for Best Sci-Fi Blog and Best Gossip Blog for 2011. We’re very excited! So, we’re giving away a bunch of Amazon gift cards to our Google followers. If you don’t know what a Google Follower is you can get details here. Here are the details: The Prize One of three $5 Amazon gift cards. How to Win Become a Google follower of our blog. It’s that simple. If you’re…

The Statue of Liberty has had a prominent place in movie history and here are the most moving moments of the Statue in science-fiction films. Today is the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Back on October 28, 1886 the old girl was introduced to the world by President Grover Cleveland. Since then, the statue has been a symbol and beacon of hope for millions. It’s also been trashed by every disaster known to man. Here are the top eight cameos of the statue in science-fiction cinema as she’s been frozen, decapitated, blown…

I will once and for all end my misspelling of the word “emperor” with this post. I used to be an awesome speller. But, once we added spell-checking software into everything we use I got lazy. My spelling is pretty bad now. My most egregious spelling error has been the word “emperor.” I use it all the time thanks to Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. I misspell it every time. I’ve gotten called out in two highly popular posts I’ve written. The first time was my post about David Prowse being banned from LucasFilm Star Wars conventions a year ago.…

There are a lot of unfounded fears about vaccines these days, but here are five really dangerous vaccines that have appeared in movies and television you may want to avoid. According to a report in Arizona Republic thousands of Arizona schoolchildren skipped their recommended vaccines during the 2010-11 school year. If more than ten percent of the population is unvaccinated we’re all in big trouble. These people are cranks and wackos. But, it wouldn’t have been a bad idea to have some of these nutballs around to stop the following vaccinations. 4. Star Trek (2009) In the movie Star Trek 2009 McCoy…

Here are this week’s DVD picks you’ll want to check out. Captain America is the big release this week and you can get it in three flavors, DVD, Blu-Ray and a 3-D version for the five of you that have 3-D compatible home entertainment systems. There’s also a Jurassic Park trilogy available on Blu-Ray. While the first is a classic it’s debatable if the other two are worth watching. Cool bonus features though.

Could an hour-long television show based on the ultimate comic book anti-hero work? There’s reason for hope. So, Russ Fischer at Slashfilm is reporting that “The Punisher” comic book is being adapted into a television series as a “procedural cop drama.” Before you have visions of CSI with machine guns listen to the synopsis: “Frank Castle, a rising star detective with the New York Police Department who moonlights as the vigilante Punisher, seeking justice for those the system has failed.” For those not familiar with the character in the comics he’s the ultimate vigilante. His family was killed by mobsters…

With the death of dictator Col Muammar Gaddafi we now present the greatest deaths of the worst dictators of geekdom. Gaddafi was a bad guy, but his death was not very dramatic. He just got shot. On the other hand there have been some truly spectacular deaths in the history of science-fiction. Here are five horrible dictators that got their end by being thrown, shocked, beat up and eaten. Emperor Palpatine In Star Wars, Emperor Palpatine served as ruler of the Galactic Empire for decades. Under his reign tyranny and murder became common place. He ruled with an iron fist and…

Who’s your favorite Jedi? It’s a common question, but did you know that your choice of Jedi reveals your personality? Based on scientific analysis of Myers-Briggs personality types we can say that mechanically inclined people like Anakin. People that like peace and solitude like Obi-Wan. Patient people identify with Qui-Gon. Here’s a list of what your favorite Jedi reveals about you. Luke Skywalker “Look, I need a farmhand who will pitch in, not a nephew with his head in the stars half the time.” ―Owen Lars, to Luke SkywalkerLuke Skywalker was a dreamer. Quiet, reflective, and idealistic. His interest was on…

Evangeline Lilly is the star of the hit film Real Steel (2011), but before that she worked her way into geek’s hearts with Lost. Born August 3, 1979 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada Evangeline was described by her family as “the actor in the family.” But, you wouldn’t have known it based on her early career. She got a few uncredited parts in Freddy vs. Jason (2003) and a few episodes of the television show Smallville as an extra. It wasn’t until she appeared in Lost as Kate Austin that her career took off. Entertainment Weekly voted her one of…