Zac Efron cites Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler and the late Matthew Perry as inspirations

Zac Efron cites Mickey Rourke’s performance in The Wrestler as an inspiration, while regretting not reaching out to Matthew Perry. Zac Efron’s earning some of the best reviews of his career for his starring role as Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw (check out our rave here). Despite often being cast as a pretty … Read more

Immortals of Aveum Never Ascends Above Its Obvious Inspirations | Video Games

The storytelling has a similar lack of thrust, as long cut scenes detail a war that’s increasingly difficult to care about. The great Gina Torres of “Firefly” and “Suits” is a nice familiar face in the interstellar combat, but I checked out of this “chosen one” narrative relatively early. And the very structure of the … Read more

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles director on Spider-Verse inspirations

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem director Jeff Rowe credits Spider-Verse with opening the door to unique animation. When CG animation began to take hold following the release of Toy Story, there was a period where a lot of the movies looked quite similar. Little by little, the various animation studios added their own stylistic … Read more

Mangold outlines Star Wars movie timeline, biblical inspirations

Director James Mangold will be busy with some major properties, officially signing on to helm a new Star Wars movie. Tea Star Wars Celebration has offered plenty of major announcements so far, not the least of which is a new movie set to be directed by James Mangold, who is certainly familiar with major franchises. … Read more