Ferris Bueller’s Day Off sequel. Can it be real?

It is in fact Matthew Broderick, and it has the music. Color me excited!

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Tell Your Vision: Underappreciated Television Performances

Television has always been a medium of great success or nose-diving failures. Some last, some pass but no matter the brilliance or utter depravity of a show, they all have something in common: characters.

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Legend of Zelda: Four Swords now FREE on Nintendo DSiWare shop

If you have a Nintendo DSi, DSi XL or 3DS, make sure to jump onto the online store for your handheld to grab The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords for FREE!

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Pokemon: If they existed in the real world

Here are a select few looks at how Pokemon would look like in the real world.

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And Now: Attractive women from romantic comedies that are also clumsy

We’ve come a long way from the days of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell’s romance in “The Seven Year Itch”. Now movie producers are looking for ways to wedge romantic plots into anything they can get their hands on – it’s no wonder that there have been more romantic comedies in the last five years than all of the other years of film combined!

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It’s All Just Black and White

Here are a few films whose directors passed over color and decided black and white would be a much more fitting color scheme for the tone and overall reception and impact of their piece.

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From Book to Film: Part two

In the previous installment of From Book to Film, we discussed two films that, though adapted from a novella and a novel, respectfully, differed from their source material in terms of narrative structure, adding, expanding upon or even skipping over plot points while still managing to create a strong, everlasting cinematic experience.

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Books to Film: Part One

A novel is such a singular experience it is no wonder that adapting a book to the medium of film is as arduous a task as any. When you read, you are alone. Not in the sense that no one else is around you, but rather that you are the reader and the narrator and the painter of the scenes in your head. You provide the voices and translate the imagery to fit the way you perceive the story.

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For Remake’s Sake: Arthur (1981) / Arthur (2011)

Of the films explored in this series, 1981′s “Arthur” seems the most appropriate to remake. Starring Dudley Moore, in what would be his most iconic role, “Arthur” follows the misadventures of the titular hapless drunk whose immense fortune and desperate alcoholism has left him alone and distanced from the rest of the world.

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For Remake’s Sake: A Continual Exploration into the Art of Story-Retelling – Let the Right One In and Let Me In

In 2008, one of the best foreign films in recent memory was released and not only redefined the perception of horror but defied boundaries of the nature of love and the capabilities for young actors to capture convincing characters and manage innate but intimate emotion.

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