David Tennant ends his reign as the Doctor in "The End of Time," his final episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who.
Since my childhood, I have followed the adventures of the Doctor, a renegade Time Lord who travels through time and space repeatedly saving the universe and (more often than not) the planet Earth. So, tonight’s episode “The End of Time – Parts I & II” (on BBC America) is more than an event, it’s a goodbye.
For four years now, the titular role on the BBC television series Doctor Who has been David Tennant. With a variety of companions and friends, the Doctor has met threats from outer space and beyond. Now, everything comes full circle as he encounters his arch-nemesis, the Master (John Simm), and the reemergence of the believed-extinct race of Time Lords.
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Exclusive TRON Legacy image courtesy of Disney Pictures. Click for larger image.
The FilmGuru is proud to be one of the select few fans who has received access to a new Tron Legacy image via Facebook. The image (right) shows what appears to be a promotional banner for the film. On Facebook, poster Laura Schibinger said this is the billboard that they put up on Santa Monica Blvd. Interestingly, the word Legacy doesn’t appear in the image. However, it does say “IN 3D DEC 2010.”
A description of the film from Facebook also refers to the film as TRON, not Tron Legacy:
TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.
Is there a name change in the works for this film, or is going to be marketed both ways? More information as it develops!
Tiana considers whether to kiss Prince Naveen in The Princess and the Frog. (Disney Pictures, 2009)
Over the years, I’ve heard many naysayers declare that fairy tales – such as those made popular in Disney films – are poor role models for young girls. They say that impressionable girls expect to have their problems solved for them by Prince Charming, and such girls are often disappointed. But in the new Disney film, it turns out that it’s the prince who needs to be rescued.
In The Princess and the Frog, audiences meet Tiana, a woman who believes in hard work and making her own dreams come true. Not only is she the first African-American princess, she’s the first fairy tale princess who lives in a real city in a real time.
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Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side coming to DVD and Blu-ray on Dec. 22, 2009.
It’s going to be a great holiday season for fans of Family Guy and Star Wars fans when Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside comes to Blu-ray and DVD on December 22, 2009. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is launching the second DVD premiere feature from the creators of Family Guy after 2005’s enormously popular Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.
The new feature is a follow-up to the 2008 Star Wars spoof “Blue Harvest.” This time around the Griffin clan packs lightsaber sharp wit as they parody the classic sequel The Empire Strikes Back. Luke (Chris), Leia (Lois), Han Solo (Peter) and Chewbacca (Brian) evade the dreaded Imperial Starfleet led by the cunning, conniving (and curiously short) evil lord Darth Vader (Stewie), setting up a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. With the rebellion in trouble, young Skywalker must take the advice of his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Herbert) and learn the ways of the “farce” under Jedi Master Yoda (Carl) to save the galaxy once and for all.
To promote the upcoming DVD, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has made available the following special trailer:
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Up deserves the Academy’s consideration
Carl (right, voiced by Ed Asner) unwillingly leads Russell (Jordan Nagai) through the wilderness of Venezuela to Paradise Falls in Disney/Pixar's feature animated film Up.
This past weekend, my family received the DVD of Up from the Disney Movie Club. We watched again the heart-warming story of Carl, the lonely old man who in the twilight of his years decides to fulfill his wife’s life-long dream of adventure. By tying their home to a thousand balloons, he uproots from the urban sprawl and heads to South America.
The film is a masterpiece of animation and storytelling, with some of the most endearing characters you will ever see. It is also perhaps the most moving film – animated or otherwise – to be created since Jimmy Stewart stopped making movies. If you can watch the first ten minutes of the film without crying, you have no soul.
Naturally, the beauty of this film started me thinking about the Academy Awards. In the history of film, only one animated feature has ever been nominated for best picture, and it didn’t win.
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