I wrote about Road House’s upcoming 25th anniversary in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly for one simple reason — Road House is awesome. Possibly the finest piece of cinematic work put forth in the entire twentieth century. And I’m not just saying that because I share the same name as Patrick Swayze’s shirtless and mulleted bar bouncer. There are many extraordinary things about this movie — the extraordinary amount of times Swayze gets shirtless for no apparent reason. Read More...
When the powers that be announced that Elongated Man would be introduced in The Flash‘s fourth season, it felt like the show was fulfilling a promise it made in its fantastic first season. But if you just finished watching Tuesday’s episode, in which Harley Sawyer made his debut as Ralph Dibny, you might be a bit confused. Let’s rewind: In season 1’s “Power Outage,” Harrison Wells, a.k.a. Eobard Thawne (played by Tom Cavanagh, who directed tonight’s episode), rattled off an Easter-egg-filled list of the people who were hurt in the particle accelerator explosion. Read More...
That was no nameless stormtrooper you heard in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — you may have (correctly) heard director and actor Kevin Smith. A new post on StarWars.com reveals Clerks director Smith can be heard giving voice to one of the stormtroopers in the film. Smith yells “We have incoming at 28.6! Move!” during the attack at Maz Kanata’s castle as one of the stormtroopers reacting to the sight of Resistance fighters. Read More...
