“Thor,” an almost $450 million worldwide box office hit earlier this year, introduced audiences to one of the players in Marvel Studios’ grand, forthcoming ”Avengers” saga. And that’s part of the problem, honestly. However admirably ambitious the creation of a unified superhero universe spanning multiple movies, certain entries, like this one, play like little more than origin story pattycake – wan set-up for something of later, actual consequence. On the verge of ascending to the throne of Asgard, headstrong Norse God Thor (Chris Hemsworth) flips out over some nasty ice giant interlopers who are vanquished in fairly short order, and decides to seek revenge, against the counsel of his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins),…

Title: True Blood Season 3 Directed by: Daniel Minahan, Scott Winant, Michael Lehmann, John Dahl, Lesli Linka Glatter and Anthony Hemingway Starring: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Alexander Skarsgard, Rutina Wesley, Nelsan Ellis, Deborah Ann Woll and Kristen Bauer van Straten. Running time: 720 minutes, Rated TV-MA, Available on Blu-ray Sookie and the rest of the residents of Bon Temps are back to fight off werewolves, werepanthers, and new vampire villains. Werewolves hooked on V (vampire blood which acts as a narcotic), kidnap vampire Bill and take him to Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare), the vampire “King of Missisippi” where he once again comes face to face with…

It seems that Viacom is bringing back a lot of old-school classics; first, there was news about vintage Nickelodeon shows coming back, now there’s news concerning vintage MTV show, “120 Minutes”. According to Entertainment Weekly, MTV is bringing back the indie-alt music show, complete with original host Matt Pinfield. Original episodes of the series will air on MTV2, while a new webseries called “120 Seconds” will air on mtvhive.com. “120 Minutes” aired between 1986 and 2000 on MTV and between 2001 and 2003 on MTV2. The show was one of the main venues catering to alternative and indie music, featuring music from The Replacements, Slowdive, Weezer, Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, Kate…

“ThunderCats” is back! ScreenCrave has the trailer for the new version of the animated show, and from looking at the still of the lead characters as well as the trailer, it would seem that the show will have an anime feel. In fact, I’m going to have to agree with ScreenCrave and say that the show does look very much like “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. Even some of the set designs look like the Earth and Fire Kingdoms and the Northern Water Tribe.  Also, if anyone has seen “Cowboy Bebop”, you’ll notice a similarity between the character designs of Jet and Panthero. Not necessarily a bad thing, really; if you…

Today is the day Lady Gaga has been tweeting about; today is the day her music video for her anthem “Born This Way” premieres. The video, directed by Nick Knight, will premiere on MTV at 5/4c on “The Seven”. According to MTV, choreographer Laurieanne Gibson has stated that the music video is “life-changing” and that fans can expect “the highest level of execution in vocal music art and dance.” Hollywoodlife has reported that, according to one of their sources, the video is supposed to be a love letter to the homosexual community and that Gaga will also address the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy she spoke out against at many events,…

For our CNN viewers, you may be interested in learning that Kathleen Parker, one half of the news duo “Parker Spitzer” has left the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Parker leaves after months of dwindling ratings and rumors of contention between Parker and her host, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Two months earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that CNN was considering replacing Parker. However, it should be noted that the show was never a big success to begin with, what with it being a weird mix of “hard” news and infotainment-verging on-rom/com stylings. This blogger is an avid CNN watcher, and after watching some of the show,…

The Hollywood Reporter has stated that singer/actors Justin Timberlake and Jennifer Hudson will present awards at the Oscars this year. Timberlake and Hudson are in the league of singers who also have critically-acclaimed acting chops. Hudson won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Effie White in “Dreamgirls”. Hudson is also playing Winnie Mandela in an indie biopic simply called “Winnie” opposite Terrence Howard as Nelson Mandela; according to The Hollywood Reporter, Hudson has finished filming for the biopic. The duties of being a presenter also aren’t new to Hudson; according to The Hollywood Reporter, she presented the Best Supporting Actor award to Javier Bardem for his…

In a breaking news story by The Hollywood Reporter, it has been revealed that some changes are going to be taking place during this year’s telecast of The Oscars. According to the site, this year’s Oscars will be virtual. Producers of the show, Don Mischer and Ben Cohen, will be relying on projections to create an ever-changing set instead of using traditional sets. Mischer and Cohen told The Hollywood Reporter that the change is supposed to allow them to show the history of Hollywood through the sets. The sets, according to Mischer, will allow for there to be more content than what is usually expected of in an awards show…

Remember that interesting “Wonder Woman” pilot mentioned a few weeks ago? Well, we finally have a face to put to the David E. Kelley-verse “Wonder Woman” show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adrianne Palicki has been cast to play Diana Prince. You might recognize Palicki from the hit show “Friday Night Lights”, on which she played Tyra Collette. She also starred in the 2010 horror/action film “Legion”. She will also be seen in the upcoming “Red Dawn”. Also interesting: she was in the extremely short-lived show “Lone Star”. In the Kelley “Wonder Woman” show, Diana is a woman who is a vigilante superhero who has to balance her superhero work…

This film has been in what people call “development hell” for a while now, and it would appear that it’s been put on hiatus once again, but test footage of the elusive “Thundercats” film has been released, according to ScreenCrave via Flixist. Like stated, it’s test footage, so it’s probably a bit pointless to mercilessly critique it, seeing as how I’m sure things would have been changed (or already have been changed) if the film was on a “full steam ahead” course to post-production, but still, let’s take a closer look at the footage (which you can view below). It would seem the 3D-generated designs of the classic characters focus more…