Cheating in online games has been a scourge since time in memoriam, but the ways that developers deal with malicious players continue to evolve and innovate. Deadlock, the Valve hero shooter quietly taking over Steam in its closed beta, is the latest multiplayer game to move the art forward by giving innocent players…
One of the most controversial movies of the year is certainly Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. Not only did Coppola spend decades putting together his futuristic fable, but he also sunk a chunk of his personal fortune into the $100 million-plus epic, only to have it met with jeers from many (but not all) critics following its screenings at Cannes, TIFF and more.
To be sure, this isn’t even close to the first time Coppola’s flirted with disaster as a filmmaker. While The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now are rightly regarded as all-timers, Coppola had a massive flop with One from the Heart, a movie that plunged him into bankruptcy, as well as The Cotton Club (which I kinda like), Tucker, Jack, Twixt, and more than a few others.
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, Megalopolis has split critics right down the middle, earning a 50% Tomato-meter score, while the audience score has yet to be tallied. If you look at the audience reviews, they range from utter amazement at what Coppola was able to accomplish (and his guts as a filmmaker) to complete and utter befuddlement at what they saw.
With that in mind, we want to get in on the fun here at JoBlo, so it’s your turn – dear readers – to weigh in on what you think about Francis Ford Coppola’s epic. To note, these debates tend to be SPOILER HEAVY, so if you haven’t seen the movie yet, I urge you to bookmark and return to this page AFTER you see the movie.
Still with us? In the comments, I want to hear what you thought of the movie itself, the CGI, performances, the oddball live theater component, Jon Voight with a bow-and-arrow (you’ll get it when you see the movie), and more. Have at it!
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One of the most controversial movies of the year is certainly Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. Not only did Coppola spend decades putting together his futuristic fable, but he also sunk a chunk of his personal fortune into the $100 million-plus epic, only to have it met with jeers from many (but not all) critics following its screenings at Cannes, TIFF and more.
To be sure, this isn’t even close to the first time Coppola’s flirted with disaster as a filmmaker. While The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now are rightly regarded as all-timers, Coppola had a massive flop with One from the Heart, a movie that plunged him into bankruptcy, as well as The Cotton Club (which I kinda like), Tucker, Jack, Twixt, and more than a few others.
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, Megalopolis has split critics right down the middle, earning a 50% Tomato-meter score, while the audience score has yet to be tallied. If you look at the audience reviews, they range from utter amazement at what Coppola was able to accomplish (and his guts as a filmmaker) to complete and utter befuddlement at what they saw.
With that in mind, we want to get in on the fun here at JoBlo, so it’s your turn – dear readers – to weigh in on what you think about Francis Ford Coppola’s epic. To note, these debates tend to be SPOILER HEAVY, so if you haven’t seen the movie yet, I urge you to bookmark and return to this page AFTER you see the movie.
Still with us? In the comments, I want to hear what you thought of the movie itself, the CGI, performances, the oddball live theater component, Jon Voight with a bow-and-arrow (you’ll get it when you see the movie), and more. Have at it!
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Earlier this week, Kyle Chandler of Friday Night Lights entered negotiations to star as Hal Jordan in the HBO series Lanterns, inspired by DC Comics’ Green Lantern characters. Now Deadline reports that Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) and Stephan James (Homecoming) have emerged as the top choices to play Jordan’s fellow Green Lantern John Stewart. Snowfall‘s Damson Idris was apparently in the mix at one point as well, but it looks like the conversation has come down to Pierre or James. Deadline’s sources caution that no offers have made to either one of them… yet.
Lanterns has officially been given an eight-episode straight-to-series order by HBO, Warner Bros. Television, and DC Studios. Chris Mundy (True Detective: Night Country) will serve as showrunner and executive producer and will co-write the series alongside Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers) and Tom King (Supergirl), who will also executive produce.
The series, which is part of the new DC Universe that’s being overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran, “follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.” Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, said, “We are elated to be reuniting with both Chris Mundy and Damon Lindelof as they partner with Tom for this fresh take on DC’s Green Lantern. As part of James and Peter’s vision for the DC Universe, this first new live-action series will mark an exciting new era.”
Gunn and Safran said, “John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with Superman.“
As we’ve previously noted, a different Green Lantern series had been in development for years. From Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Seth Grahame-Smith, that one would have told a story “spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott, and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.” Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) was set to play Alan Scott alongside Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) as Guy Gardner, but the project was completely redeveloped.
So now we have Lanterns, with Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and, it seems, either Aaron Pierre or Stephan James as John Stewart. Who would you like to see take on the role of John Stewart? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Caroline Kwan is tired, but you can’t tell. The political fundraiser turned actor turned Twitch streamer is sitting across from me in a TwitchCon meeting room on the last day of the convention, wearing a pink boilersuit and sneakers, her hair pulled back off her face, looking clear-eyed and alert.
Caroline Kwan is tired, but you can’t tell. The political fundraiser turned actor turned Twitch streamer is sitting across from me in a TwitchCon meeting room on the last day of the convention, wearing a pink boilersuit and sneakers, her hair pulled back off her face, looking clear-eyed and alert.
Remember The Day Before? If anything, the blandness of its name might have caused the clown-car series of scandals surrounding it last holiday season to fade from memory. But the zombie survival MMO’s sudden collapse and closure is back on our radar thanks to its developer Fntastic, who is rather boldly taking to…
Remember The Day Before? If anything, the blandness of its name might have caused the clown-car series of scandals surrounding it last holiday season to fade from memory. But the zombie survival MMO’s sudden collapse and closure is back on our radar thanks to its developer Fntastic, who is rather boldly taking to…
When the screen went black and “Don’t Stop Believing” cut out, everybody watching The Sopranos wondered: Did my cable just cut out?! But after that, we wondered what happened to Tony Soprano. Was he whacked inside of an ice cream parlor or did he finish his onion rings? Did the man in the Members Only jacket do him in or will he constantly live in state of uncertainty? David Chase has given his final say before but that doesn’t stop the theories, be it from fans or Sopranos cast members. Now, Lorraine Bracco is giving her own hopeful ending for The Sopranos.
Bracco – who played therapist Dr. Jennifer Melfi throughout The Sopranos – said she thinks that Tony survived his tense night out with his family. And despite her final scene of closing the door on her patient of seven years, she imagines Melfi and Tony would have kept in touch. “Honestly, I think they bumped into each other in restaurants and stuff like that. I don’t know. I think part of me wants to believe that she took a moment away from him, and they got back together, back in therapy. I could believe that.”
On her final appearance – which occurred in The Sopranos’ penultimate episode “The Blue Comet” – Bracco said she felt like creator David Chase shortchanged the character. “I was also not very happy the way David ended it. I thought it was bad and wrong. I was annoyed. I told him, ‘How do you invest five years into someone’s life and just walk away?’ I said, ‘That is not cool.’ And you know, that was it.”
We can imagine what might have happened to some of our favorite characters after the events of “Made in America” (Paulie will forever be haunted by cats) but I really don’t think it’s open for interpretation as to what happened to Tony. Even without Chase’s say-so, it’s obvious that Tony was killed in Holsten’s. Why else would the previous episode cut back to “Soprano Home Movies” when Bobby says, “You probably don’t hear it when it happens,” especially when the show so rarely did those sorts of flashbacks?
How do you feel about the way The Sopranos handled Melfi? Was it well done or was it a disservice to the character?
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Last week, JoBlo Media and Octane Multimedia teamed up to launch a new YouTube channel named JoBlo TV, which will host feature films to watch for free every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! The genres we’ll be focusing on at JoBlo TV are Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Thrillers, and the movie that got it all started was the sci-fi action film A Rough Draft. Now that a week has gone by, we have decided to round up the other movies that have been released through the channel so far and embed them below.
The movies we followed A Rough Draft with this week are the adventure film Legend of the Ghost Dagger, the spy action movie Agent Jade Black, the thriller Central Park Dark, the sci-fi film Ellipse, and the historical action film Legend of the Carpathians.
Written and directed by Martin Sofiedal, Legend of the Ghost Dagger tells the following story: A failed treasure hunter tricks his girlfriend into going on a vacation to Mallorca, hoping to both fix the relationship and find the legendary Ghost Dagger, with deadly consequences. The film stars Fredrik Skogsrud, Caroline Glomnes, Trond Fausa, Patrick Finzi, John Smith Kabashi, Hamid Karimi, Henrik Plau, Carl Filip Amundsen Stav, and Cecilie Svendsen.
Written and directed by Terry Spears, Agent Jade Black has the following synopsis: A skilled young female agent is tasked with capturing a rogue former agent before she can unleash a biological weapon starting with the wealthy and powerful purveyors of the international sex trade. Katie Burgess stars as the title character.
Written and directed by Cybil Lake, who also stars in the film with Tom Sizemore, Central Park Dark has the following synopsis: A one-night stand turns into a never-ending nightmare. A married doctor has a one-night stand with an unstable woman who jumps out of his window, then begins to torment him, though it’s unclear if she is still alive or not.
Directed by Joe Bland and Grant Martin from a script that was written by Martin, Ellipse has the following synopsis: A man and his dog are stranded on a volatile, oval-shaped planet and are forced to adapt and escape before time destroys them both. The film stars Josiah Authier, Michelle Medoff, Jack William, and co-director / writer Grant Martin. That is the full cast list, so don’t expect to be introduced to very many characters while watching this movie.
Directed by Serg Skobun, Legend of the Carpathians has the following synopsis: As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa’s mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother’s death. Oleksa gathered followers to begin a crusade against the lord, but destiny made other plans for him.
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