Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. The hellish phenomenon of “Minions” took over cinemas last year. It infected merchandising […]
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Movie Review: ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’
When the original “Kung Fu Panda” lost the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature to “Wall-E” eight years ago, I felt that film’s heart, humor and action had been cheated by the Pixar name and slightly better animation. Luckily, DreamWorks Animations kept the series alive and gave audiences even more fuzzy animals, stellar kung fu […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Suicide Squad’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. The age of the superhero film is upon us, with multiple movies slated […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Jane Got a Gun’ and ‘Elvis & Nixon’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Thirteen trailers were released last week ranging from the wonderfully original to the […]
Album Review: ‘Death of a Bachelor’
Panic! At The Disco reminds me of junior high school and early 2000s emo rock, a lite version of mentor band Fall Out Boy. So when Brendon Urie, the band’s driving force and only remaining original member, compared Panic! At The Disco’s new album to a “mix between Sinatra and Queen,” two of my favorite […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Zootopia’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: the good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect one movie trailer and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Disney has a penchant for zany characters and a magic power to […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Deadpool’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: the good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect one movie trailer and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. This holiday season, Marvel was both naughty and nice when it gave […]