Dark Knight Rises

This is big news today, and I find this funny talking about it because I remember April Fools last year, I posted a joke about the next Batman movie with unappealing changes taking place, just go to my post in April 1, 2009 to refresh on what I am talking about. Anyway, the new Batman movie will be called The Dark Knight Rises, which seems like a good title. The other big news attached to it is that The Riddler will not be the villian, as many were speculating. I thought it would have been a good possibility, but whatever Christopher Nolan has in mind, it will work. Some of the other news bits that I heard was that Tom Hardy was attached to play a role in it, if you don't know who he is, he was in Inception this summer, he was Eames who was also known as the Forger in the team. Once again, if you haven't seen Inception, go see it. As well, this movie will not be in 3D. And again, it will have IMAX filmed sequences like the last movie. I will continue to share updates as they are released.

In other news, Halloween is almost here. There are many ways to celebrate it. One of the ways I have been doing it is watching Halloween themed movies, like Watcher in the Woods, What Lies Beneath, Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, and others. I also went through a Haunted House, which was the first time for me, besides school made haunted houses when I was younger.

As for recommendations of movies that are out in theaters. The big one I would recommend is The Social Network. I worried about the movie at first because I saw it as a movie about the history of Facebook, and I really didn't care to learn of the history of Facebook, but what I learned was a bit deeper than that, it has to do about friendships and how you can easily destroy them. I feel this is one movie that can easily be nominated for many Oscars. The performances were also great. Jesse Eisenberg was superb as the main character, and Andrew Garfield was also excellent. Another movie I would also recommend is Red, it was a fun movie to watch, lots of action and humor, very enjoyable. I am sure many of you will probably look for scary films this weekend, but those are my recommendations, I am also going to try to check out Hereafter and Secretariat soon.

Next month will be a great month for movies, mainly for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, I am very excited for the movie. Other ones I want to check out is Morning Glory, yes it looks like it could be predictable, but it should be entertaining and funny, it has Rachael McAdams, Harrison Ford, and Diane Keaton. I also want to see Unstoppable, probably will be a not so good action flick, but could have some entertaining moments in it. It also has a decent cast, like Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. Megamind might also be entertaining. Another one I really do want to see is Tangled, it looks like it could be really funny and good. Some other ones that are more political are Fair Game, with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, and then there is The Next Three Days, with Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson. That is what I can think of right now, but of course Harry Potter will make the biggest difference for the month, with the others helping the holiday season. Then the next month should have some really good movies as well.

Oh yeah, one more thing, Back to the Future hit the Blu-Ray this week, for fans of the movie, go pick it up, from what I have heard, the quality is really good, especially for the first movie, and there are a lot of good special features. As well, if you want any other Blu-Ray recommendations, pick up How to Train Your Dragon, seriously, it is a great movie, and the quality is excellent. I will soon post up some big releases that are coming out this Christmas on Blu-Ray and DVD.

Reboot coming out

This really isn't movie news, but this was a favorite TV show from my childhood, that I really couldn't resist but share the news. I don't know how many are familiar with the TV show Reboot, it was the first computer animated TV show, it was released in the early 1990s. I watched it when I was growing up in Canada and we had a channel called YTV, and it would air on there. That was one TV show I really got into. Well, a company called Shout Factory got the rights to the TV show and they will be releasing the entire series on DVD next year, I don't know exactly when unfortunately, but I consider this great news that the whole series will be available on DVD. That is one of the greatest things about DVD, old TV series end up on DVD and many can go back and rewatch their favorite shows.

For those who don't know what ReBoot is, here is a link to the opening of the show.

Stay tuned for when I give the forecast of movies to look forward to this holiday season, and probably the DVD and Blu-Ray movies to keep your eyes pealed for.