Some interesting movie news has come to light recently in the wake of Alan Rickman’s death. According to Sam Rockwell via The Guardian, Rickman’s passing quelled talk of a sequel to 1999’s Galaxy Quest, a revelation that’s sure to disappoint the film’s cult base. The sequel was moving forward at Amazon with original castmates Rickman, Rockwell, Sigourney Weaver, and Tim Allen in talks to reappear. Continue reading
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Top 10 movie Comedies
The funniest movies tend to burrow into our brains like no other form of popular entertainment. Through repeated viewings and earworm quotes, they create unconscious templates for life’s milestones and stopovers — dating, road trips, the college experience, marriage, the working world — and remind us of moments in time as well as entire eras. They’re comfort food and therapy, high art and cultural critique, nestled lovingly amid fart jokes and crotch punches.
The best comedy movies also enjoy a freedom that seems out of place in most other media, with run-times that allow them to develop complicated but self-contained worlds, the full buffet of acting, editing, and musical options, and the (frequent) R ratings that give them the appropriate range of artistic motion. “Comedy is subjective,” we’re constantly told. Maybe, but if something stays funny for decades it’s clearly reaching across cultures and contexts to tweak our collective nipples for a reason.
Here are our picks for the best of the best. for this top 10 list! Continue reading
‘Galaxy Quest’ Series In Works At Paramount Television
Cult sci-fi comedy feature Galaxy Quest is headed to television. Deadline has learned that 
Paramount Television is in the process of putting together a TV series project based on the 1999 DreamWorks movie about the cast of a long cancelled space TV show who become reluctant real space heroes when they are accidentally transported to a spaceship and tasked with saving an alien nation. Continue reading