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Mar10 Day Sees Super Mario Bros. Movie Sequel Announcement

AlexGherzo | Mar 10, 2024 | 2

March 10 is Mario Day because the abbreviation of the month plus the numbers in the day kinda looks like “Mario.” (At least it’s less tenuous than May the Fourth.) Wisely, Nintendo decided to capitalize on the occasion by making a big announcement. Nintendo game director Shigeru Miyamoto and I...

Non-Deadpool Super Bowl Trailers 2024

AlexGherzo | Feb 12, 2024 | 0

Deadpool & Wolverine is the one that took the internet by storm – so much so that it’s still trending over 24 hours later – but ten other movies got trailers at this year’s Super Bowl. The lack of reaction to them doesn’t bode well for their box office prospects, but some of them are ...

Migration Trailer Takes Flight

virginiakublawi | Jul 18, 2023 | 0

Today, Illumination dropped another trailer for their animated movie Migration on YouTube. This comedy follows a family of ducks who convince their overprotective father to embark on a journey to the Caribbean, but they get lost in New York City along the way. Migration features the voices of Kumail...

RUMOR: Is The Legend of Zelda the Next Nintendo Animated Movie?

AlexGherzo | Jun 9, 2023 | 0

As rumors go, this one sounds a hell of a lot more likely than Disney selling Star Wars back to George Lucas. On The Hot Mic, Jeff Sneider revealed that “a big source” told him that Universal is “closing a, quote, ‘big deal’ with the Nintendo corporation” to make a movie based on The Leg...

Jack Black Pitches Pedro Pascal as Wario for the Super Mario Bros. Sequel

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Apr 10, 2023 | 0

Whenever two things are popular simultaneously, studios and fans alike often imagine combining these popular things to make something new, the hypnosis of current think fueling them. Jack Black has fallen into this trend following the massive success of HBO’s The Last of Us and Universal’s Super...

REVIEW: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

AlexGherzo | Apr 5, 2023 | 0

This year started off rocky for me, movie-wise, but I’ve suddenly been inundated with a series of pleasant surprises. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the latest one, something I’d figured would be well-made and good for what it is, but not of interest to me. As far as video games go, I’ve left ...