Opinions

Instead of getting irate about all the new, crappy toy adaptations coming down the pipe, let’s celebrate a few toys that could be made into equally crappy adaptations!

Since it is likely that many of you have had the chance to see Pixar’s latest gem Up — and if you’re like me, you may be heading out to see it again today — it is time to have a little discussion.

Just because we’d rather terminate Terminator Salvation rather than watch it again doesn’t mean we don’t want a sequel. We just want one that meets all of our demands.

Dollhouse tracker Michelle Graham takes a look at an odd little trend in the Fox Network Friday night line-up, going as far as to suggest that Dollhouse’s future might be similar to that of the now-canceled Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Shelved! will be a very infrequent feature here at FSR where we briefly examine possible reasons as to why the film was buried then review the movie to see if it was shelved with good cause or if it deserves a space on your shelf. This week… Killshot starring Mickey Rourke!

Someone has seen the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and they’ve written about it at great length. And it is time for our resident lover of the novel, Neil Miller, to react appropriately.

What, last week’s Blu-ray Report posting this week? Does that mean that we get two Blu-ray Reports this week? Yes friends, it does. Try to contain yourselves.

If you don’t know Scott Adkins by name right now, after X-Men Origins Wolverine you’ll at least know him as that guy who has awesome spin kicks.

Too often we bicker and argue about what sequels should never have been made – and there are a lot of them. Now, we’d like to take a look at a few sequels that actually should be made but, for some reason, haven’t been.

For all intents and purposes, this film is getting a lot of positive reviews that, upon reading, aren’t really positive at all. Why would a film that champions newspaper reporting get such praise from newspaper-based critics?

Chev Chelios may have cheated death in Crank 2: High Voltage, but he’s definitely not the first. Check out some of the dumbest ways studios have saved characters from their all-too-early demises.

While other Rejects may have enjoyed the film, Robert Fure pepper sprays Observe and Report in the face and then mercilessly beats it into the pavement. See if you agree inside.

There was a lot of fake movie news floating around yesterday, but there’s always a lot of fake movie news floating around. We take a look at eleven rumor stories (some true, some false) that really should have been posted on April 1st.

There’s one major reason why none of that matters, and I promise I eventually get to it at some point during my rambling, nonsensical rant.

Are you as sick of lists as we are? Before you answer, please note that it’s a trick question of sorts. We at FSR are not in any way sick of lists. Lists are our bread and butter. They’re reason we get up in the morning. They’re the sex in our sandwiches. And so on.

Is there anything more worth celebrating than B-movies of the 1950s? The aliens, the UFOs on strings, the rubber-suited monsters. There’s nothing else like it in cinema, and the genre is back in the spotlight with this week’s releases.

Until we elevate truly groundbreaking films to the top of the theatrical totem pole, Hollywood will continue to sing the same song. If past is prologue then it appears we will continue to hum along.

Julian Shapiro forces us to pull out our dictionaries in order to argue that, although King Kong’s narrative blends the fantastic and the real, it is nonetheless a realist text, as it reasons with the fantastic by virtue of reality.

Don’t get too excited. Danny Boyle is probably getting approached by every project under the sun right now. But if he does take the Bond helm, could he pull it off?

I attended WonderCon this past weekend here in San Francisco, and I’m obligated to write up some kind of recap. This normally isn’t such a problem…