Captain America’s First Love Will Be in THE WINTER SOLDIER
April 29, 2013

Peggy Isn’t Gone for Good! Captain America’s First Love Will Be in THE WINTER SOLDIER By Natalie Fertig When we last saw Peggy Carter, she was tearfully having her final conversation with Steve Rogers - aka Captain America - as his plane went down somewhere over the Atlantic. As this was way back in the 1940s, we all quickly assumed we would not be seeing the feisty British agent in the next film. But Hayley Atwell, who played the beloved character in that first "Captain America" film, has recently suggested that Peggy may yet be seen in the upcoming sequel CAPTAIN AMERICA:  THE WINTER SOLDIER. In a new interview with 'The Age', British actress Hayley Atwell explains where we might see her again. “They're so tight, th...

Trouble at TriBeCa Film Fest?
April 27, 2013

[caption id="attachment_463113" align="alignnone" width="579"] photo credit Charles Petersheim[/caption] NY Festival Turns Away Farmers, Prompting Questions About Documentary’s Agenda by Natalie Fertig Hollywood, CA - Is the Tribeca Film Festival shutting out viewers who don’t agree with the messages of its documentaries? Phelim McAleer, a journalist at the premiere of GASLAND II, a documentary critical of the fracking process of extracting natural gas, says he was turned away at the door Sunday afternoon after asking some hard-hitting questions on the red carpet, The New York Times reported. In a video featured on Fox News, McAleer states he asked some “pointed” questions on the red carpet, which prompted nearby farm...

Talking Classic Movies
April 26, 2013

Talking Classic Movies and the Golden Age of Hollywood: Behind the Scenes of Turner Classic Movies’ Film Fest with Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz By Tom Snyder, Editor What you see is what you get. That’s the vibe that Robert Osborne, the longtime erudite, amiable host of the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Channel on Cable TV, sends when meeting him in person. Movieguide® got a chance to interview Osborne and the other main host of TCM, Ben Mankiewicz, at the beginning of their Fourth Annual TCM Film Festival, which opens today (Thursday, April 25) in Hollywood. TCM has amassed a huge popular following throughout America, and now the world, because of their policy of showing classic movies from the Golden Age of H...

Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko Discuss OBLIVION and Tom Cruise
April 19, 2013

Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko Discuss OBLIVION and Tom Cruise By Evy Baehr, Associate Editor OBLIVION stars Tom Cruise as Jack Harper, who works as a technician to protect humankind from aliens. OBLIVION is a Tom Cruise movie with a lot of action but will also get viewers thinking. Movieguide® had the opportunity to hear from Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko on their roles in OBLIVION. On Working with Tom Cruise Question:  Do you two work similarly or differently? Morgan:  No, no, no. Everybody works the same. As you mentioned, preparation very often can be different, but you cannot work differently. You have to say the words that are written on the page. You have to make your mark. That’s the work. Olga:  Tom is ...

Bringing Science Fiction Back into the Daylight
April 18, 2013

Bringing Science Fiction Back into the Daylight: Behind the Scenes of OBLIVION with the Director By Evy Baehr, Associate Editor OBLIVION is an interesting science fiction film that even director Joseph Kosinski admits shows a story of redemption. Movieguide® had the opportunity to get some insights from Kosinski on just what type of movie he wanted to make. “I wasn’t interested in making a hyper violent film,” Kosinski said. “This film at its core is a very hopeful film, and one that I wanted people who even normally wouldn’t go to sci fi adventure films. I wanted it to have a heart and a core to it or a message that would appeal to them as well. In the end, I got to make exactly the type of movie I wanted to make.” ...

Disney’s New Princess Doesn’t Need a Prince?
April 16, 2013

Disney’s New Princess Doesn’t Need a Prince? By David Outten, Production Editor SOFIA THE FIRST, Disney’s new pre-school princess on home video, doesn’t need a prince. She’s the daughter of a poor single mother who marries King Roland. This daughter of a shoe cobbler must learn what it is to be a princess. She’s aided by visits from famous Disney movie princesses. In the Wall Street Journal, Nancy Kanter, senior vice president of original programming and general manager of Disney Junior Worldwide, says, “We knew we didn’t want it to be a young woman looking for a man. . . . We’re undoing all that damage.” In her blog reported on by Huffpost Culture, she said, “Kids learn from everything around them: p...

Tiny Antenna Scares TV Networks
April 16, 2013

By David Outten, Production Editor  A tiny TV antenna with special HD capability is scaring the broadcast television networks. So much so that President Chase Carey of Fox TV’s News Corp. warned that his network may have to turn from being a broadcast service to being a subscription service. On April 1, a federal appeals court in New York ruled in favor of the Aereo company and against CBS, Comcast/NBC, News Corp./Fox, and Disney/ABC. For 80 bucks a year, Aereo will lease consumers a tiny personal antenna in their facilities. Consumers can then get live broadcast television shows through the Internet on their televisions, computers, iPads, and smartphones without paying for cable. In addition, the service comes with cloud st...

Faith and ‘42’
April 12, 2013

FAITH AND ‘42’: The Source Behind Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey’s Strength By Natalie Fertig and Dr Ted Baehr, Publisher The Jackie Robinson biopic “42” premieres this weekend, and all eyes are on the life of Jackie Robinson and the general manager who hired him, Branch Rickey. As people delve deeper, what is coming to the surface are stories of the deep faith in Christ that kept both Robinson and Rickey going in the face of terrible persecution. Read the full "42" Movieguide Review here... An investigation into the history behind the movie shows that it was, in fact, Branch Rickey’s Christian faith that led him to break the color barrier in baseball. Brought up by a strongly devout mother in Southern C...

Movie Star Talks Faith in “42”
April 12, 2013

Movieguide® TV caught up with Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights, Seven Days in Utopia) on the red carpet of “42”. Lucas plays the part of former Dodger’s shortstop Pee Wee Reese in the Jackie Robinson biopic. Watch the Movieguide TV interviews on the "42" Red Carpet... It was Reese who famously put his arm around Jackie in the middle of the baseball field, right during the height of the backlash against Jackie leaving the “Negro Leagues” to play for the Dodgers. The photos of that moment have become iconic. Movieguide®’s Evy Baehr took a moment to ask Lucas a few questions about Pee Wee Reese, Branch Rickey, and their faith in God. Evy: What do you think really changed your player’s/character’s heart in the ...

Margaret Thatcher – The World Loses a Great Leader
April 11, 2013

Margaret Thatcher – The World Loses a Great Leader By David Outten, Production Editor Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, died of a stroke Monday, April 8. She was responsible for a revival of conservative values during her term. Thatcher also was a good friend of President Ronald Reagan. Her beautiful, heartfelt eulogy for him can be seen on the Internet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKAGWuDOX0o. You can see in it her reverence for God as well as her affection for President Reagan. Like Ronald Reagan, Thatcher won the hearts of many people with a charming mix of whit and wisdom. She promoted Christian, conservative values with the use of great, easily understood comments like her quotes be...